Call of the Cuckoo

Name: Call of the Cuckoo
Director: Clyde Bruckman
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1927
Duration: 18 min
Cast: Max Davidson, Lillian Elliott, Spec O'Donnell, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

1927 Comedy 18 minutes Directed by Clyde Bruckman

About Call of the Cuckoo

Max Davidson plays a man who has saved up for a house. The house is next to an asylum, and the mishaps start there. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, and Charley Chase appear in cameos. Laurel and Hardy are not yet a team.

Cast & crew

More about Call of the Cuckoo

Clyde Bruckman directed the two-reeler. H. M. Walker and Leo McCarey wrote it. Hal Roach produced it. Richard C. Currier edited it. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it. Wikidata times it at 18 minutes. Lillian Elliott and Spec O'Donnell are on the catalog cast. Charlie Hall, Leo Willis, and Lyle Tayo are on the Wikidata list. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

A new house
Neighbors from the asylum
Roach cameos
Max Davidson
asylum
Laurel
Hardy
Finlayson
Hal Roach

Preservation

A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

The English Wikipedia treats Laurel, Hardy, Finlayson, and Chase as cameos, not as the leads.
Davidson is the principal star.
The house sits beside the asylum.