From Soup to Nuts
About From Soup to Nuts
Stan and Ollie are hired to wait at a dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Culpepper. Their card says "All we ask is a chance," and the only jobs they can list were railroad eating houses. In the kitchen Stan keeps pulling off the chef's hat until the two of them are smashing plates, and Ollie, trying to stop them, trips and breaks the large plate himself. Carrying a cake, he slips on a banana skin the dog left and falls into it, more than once. Mrs. Culpepper asks for the salad undressed, and Stan, taking the word literally, brings it in wearing only his underwear.
Cast & crew
More about From Soup to Nuts
Edgar Kennedy, billed as E. Livingston Kennedy, directed this Hal Roach short. Leo McCarey and H. M. Walker wrote it, Richard C. Currier edited it, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on March 24, 1928.
Themes
Look
Len Powers photographed the dinner and the kitchen on the Hal Roach stages between 27 December 1927 and 5 January 1928.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Notes
- The listed running time is 18 minutes 41 seconds.
- Anita Garvin is Mrs. Culpepper. Tiny Sandford is Mr. Culpepper. Otto Fries is the chef. Edna Marion is Agnes, the maid. The dog is billed as Buddy.
- Dinner guests include Dorothy Coburn, Sam Lufkin, Gene Morgan, and Ellinor Vanderveer.
- Ollie tells Mr. Culpepper that his wife is "some wiggler!
- The lordheath.com filmography dates the shoot from 27 December 1927 to 5 January 1928, production number S-8, two reels.
- The first twenty minutes of A Chump at Oxford (1940) remake this short. Garvin plays the hostess again, renamed Mrs. Vanderveer after the guest in this film, and James Finlayson takes Tiny Sandford's part.
Scenes
- Stan and the chef break plates over each other's heads until Ollie smashes the expensive one himself.
- Ollie slips on the dog's banana skin and lands face first in the cake.
- Stan serves the salad in his underwear, Ollie tries to cover him with a jacket, and Mrs. Culpepper knocks Ollie into another cake.
Influenced
- A Chump at Oxford (1940)
Quotes
All we ask is a chance.
Some wiggler!
How's that - perfect?
