Men O' War

Men O' War is a 1929 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. The film opens with a montage of scenes in a park; canoers on a lake, a band playing in a bandstand, before showing us a washerwoman walking along one of the paths in the park with a basket of laundry on her shoulder. A ladies' undergarment falls from the basket onto a shrub. Two young girls (Anne Cornwall and Gloria Greer) stop near the shrub where they chitchat about a man they'd... more

Men O' War is a 1929 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. The film opens with a montage of scenes in a park; canoers on a lake, a band playing in a bandstand, before showing us a washerwoman walking along one of the paths in the park with a basket of laundry on her shoulder. A ladies' undergarment falls from the basket onto a shrub. Two young girls (Anne Cornwall and Gloria Greer) stop near the shrub where they chitchat about a man they'd encountered the previous evening. Stan and Ollie, playing sailors on leave, happen by and exchange flirtatious glances with the girls. The girls giggle and hurry away, and after they leave the scene Stan and Ollie find the undergarment. "They faw down!" Ollie exclaims. A bicyclist passing by chides the two men for displaying the undergarment: "Naughty, naughty!" he chants, so distracted that he fails to notice he's pedaling off the path until he takes a header into the lake. Nearby, Anne now discovers she's lost her gloves. They return to... less