Should Sailors Marry?
About Should Sailors Marry?
Cyril D'Armond comes home after four years on a submarine to marry Verbena Singlefoot, a widow he knows only from letters. She and her wrestler ex-husband want his back pay for alimony. He has lost the money in a shell game, so they put him to work on a skyscraper, insure his life for $25,000 payable to Verbena, and start arranging accidents. A doctor, played by Oliver Hardy, examines him on the job. Cyril cuts loose a hot-air balloon advertising Reno Soap, drops a sandbag on the ex-husband, and heads for Reno.
Cast & crew
More about Should Sailors Marry?
Hal Roach produced the two-reeler. Pathé Exchange released it on November 8, 1925. H. M. Walker wrote the titles. R. H. Weller photographed it. Richard C. Currier edited. Wikipedia credits Jess Robbins as director. The Hal Roach production log, as given by Lord Heath, credits James Parrott and dates the shoot April 27 to May 8, 1925, with retakes June 2 to 8. The production number is C-2.
Themes
Making
Hardy, not yet teamed with Stan Laurel, plays the doctor who inflates a blood-pressure cuff until it bursts.
Look
R. H. Weller photographed the steelwork and the balloon escape.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Clyde Cook plays Cyril D'Armond. Fay Holderness plays Verbena Singlefoot. Noah Young plays the ex-husband. Martha Sleeper plays their daughter Smyrna.
- Oliver Hardy plays the doctor who writes the $25,000 policy. Sammy Brooks is his short assistant.
- Verbena won a beauty prize at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, twenty-two years before the story.
- An advertisement ran in Moving Picture World on November 14, 1925.
Scenes
- Smyrna's brother shoots at Cyril's feet to make him dance a hornpipe.
- Cyril gets into bed with the ex-husband on the wedding night.
- He escapes in a balloon lettered Reno Soap and drops a sandbag on the ex-husband.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Should Sailors Marry? (1925).webm)
Quotes
Did he hurt you Daddy?
