Gas and Air
About Gas and Air
Stan Laurel, as Phillup McCann, is handyman at a garage whose owner also runs a lunch stand. Between jobs he tries to court the owner's daughter. The father sends him out with a wrecking car that barely lasts as far as the wreck. Father and handyman then try to haul the wreck in. A gasoline line that will not shut off blows the garage, a customer, and the lunch counter apart.
Cast & crew
More about Gas and Air
Scott Pembroke directed and Hal Roach produced. Pathé Exchange released this one-reel short on July 29, 1923. The shoot ran March 20–27, 1923, with added scenes on April 6 and 7.
Themes
Look
Frank Young photographed the March and April 1923 shoot at the garage and the wreck.
Preservation
A print exists.
Notes
- Katherine Grant plays the garage owner's daughter. Charles Stevenson plays the owner. Eddie Baker is a customer.
- The Film Daily of July 22, 1923, says Laurel never cracks a smile, including when the gasoline line explodes.
- A sign on the tow truck reads 'You wreck em so do we.'
Scenes
- McCann arrives for work by chauffeur, with a fur coat over his work clothes.
- The open gasoline line blows the lunch counter and the men with it.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Gas and Air (1923).webm)
