Sailors, Beware!
About Sailors, Beware!
Cab driver Chester Chaste (Stan Laurel) picks up Madame Ritz (Anita Garvin) and her partner Roger (Gustav Schaffrath), a small man dressed as a baby. They leave without paying. Chester follows them onto a ship. Captain Bull makes him work his way across under purser Cryder (Oliver Hardy). Chester grows suspicious when the baby cleans him out at dice, and a bath shows a grown man's chest. Roger then beats up Cryder.
Cast & crew
More about Sailors, Beware!
Fred Guiol and Hal Yates directed. Hal Roach produced and wrote the story. H. M. Walker wrote the titles. Pathé Exchange released it on 25 September 1927. Laurel and Hardy are not yet billed as a team. Lupe Vélez plays Baroness Behr, uncredited.
Themes
Background
A Hal Roach short of September 1927, with Laurel and Hardy in the same picture before the studio billed them as a pair.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The English Wikipedia times a print at 19 minutes 51 seconds.
- Frank Brownlee plays Captain Bull.
- Chester throws the baby down a smokestack before the bath gives the disguise away.
- Wikidata lists Hal Roach as a director. The English Wikipedia credits Fred Guiol and Hal Yates.
Scenes
- The baby wins Chester's money at dice.
- A bath shows the baby is a grown man.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Sailors Beware (1927).webm)
