Noisy Noises
About Noisy Noises
Joe Cobb has a jumping toothache and has to watch his baby brother Rupert, who has been crying for hours. Wheezer, hunting bugs with a claw hammer, and a neighbor sawing at a bass fiddle keep waking the child. Joe rocks the cradle until it comes apart. A baby carriage then rolls downhill through traffic with Rupert and a neighbor's monkey aboard. Joe's mother comes home, gives him a dollar for the dentist, and Farina ties the bad tooth to Pete the Pup. Wheezer gets the dollar and trades it for a penny.
Cast & crew
More about Noisy Noises
The 82nd Our Gang short, production number G-16. Robert F. McGowan directed and produced it with Hal Roach. Reed Heustis wrote the titles. Art Lloyd photographed it and Richard C. Currier edited it. Shot from 29 October to 10 November 1928. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released the two-reeler on 9 February 1929. Silent, with English intertitles.
Themes
Background
Released in February 1929, late in the silent run of Our Gang. MGM was the distributor by then. The series had begun at Hal Roach in 1922.
Making
McGowan's unit shot the two reels in about two weeks at the end of 1928, still as a silent, while the studio was already moving other series into sound.
Look
Art Lloyd photographed the apartment-house gags and the carriage running through traffic.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles by Reed Heustis.
Notes
- Warren Mills plays the baby Rupert. Bobby Hutchins is Wheezer. Allen Hoskins is Farina.
- Tenen Holtz plays the man practicing the fiddle. Lyle Tayo plays Joe's mother.
- Jean Darling, Mary Ann Jackson, and Harry Spear are in the gang. Pete the Pup pulls the tooth.
- A title card says that for three hours on Saturday little Rupert cried like a police siren.
- Jay R. Smith appears as a boy at the dentist.
Scenes
- A neighbor's bass fiddle wakes Rupert just after Joe gets him to sleep.
- The baby carriage rolls downhill through traffic with Rupert and a monkey.
- Farina ties Joe's tooth to Pete the Pup.
