Brats
About Brats
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy try to spend the evening playing checkers at home. Their sons, played by the same two men, keep breaking it up. It is the first of three films in which each plays a second part. The others are Twice Two and Our Relations.
Cast & crew
More about Brats
James Parrott directed. Leo McCarey, Hal Roach, and H. M. Walker wrote it. Roach produced it. George Stevens photographed it. Leroy Shield wrote the music. Richard C. Currier edited it. MGM released it. Wikidata times it at 20 minutes. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Look
George Stevens photographed the oversized set that makes the fathers look like children.
Music
Leroy Shield wrote the music.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The children are Laurel and Hardy in a second scale, not other actors.
- A Sons of the Desert helper group in Michigan took the title.
- The Commons file is Brats (1930).
Scenes
- The two fathers sit down to checkers and the two sons start the noise.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Brats)
