Another Fine Mess is a 1930 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. It is based on a 1908 play by Arthur J. Jefferson, Stan Laurel's father, and is a remake of the 1927 film Duck Soup.
The title of the movie is Hardy's famous catchphrase 'Another fine mess'. However, in films Hardy always said 'Another nice mess'. The only known occasion 'Another fine mess' was apparently said by Ollie was in a radio programme the team made in the 1940s.
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Another Fine Mess is a 1930 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. It is based on a 1908 play by Arthur J. Jefferson, Stan Laurel's father, and is a remake of the 1927 film Duck Soup.
The title of the movie is Hardy's famous catchphrase 'Another fine mess'. However, in films Hardy always said 'Another nice mess'. The only known occasion 'Another fine mess' was apparently said by Ollie was in a radio programme the team made in the 1940s.
This is also the second film to feature the line "Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into", which was first used in The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case.
Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel are vagabonds being chased by the police. They hide in the cellar of the mansion of a Quatermain-esque adventurer, Col. Buckshot (Jimmy Finlayson) recently departed for an safari in South Africa, and which is to be rented out until his return. The boys are surrounded by police, so to deceive the honeymooning couple renting the house, Oliver disguises himself as...
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