The Hoose-Gow
About The Hoose-Gow
Stan and Ollie arrive as new prisoners and tell an officer they were only watching a prohibition raid. Friends outside send a rope ladder; the friends leave, the guard shuts the door, and shotgun pellets tear the seats of their trousers. Put to cutting a tree, they drop it on the guard's tent as the governor, James Finlayson, drives up. Moved to ditch digging, Stan's pick punches the governor's radiator. On another inmate's advice they pour in dry rice. The rice boils over, and a rice fight takes in the governor and his party.
Cast & crew
More about The Hoose-Gow
James Parrott directed for Hal Roach. H. M. Walker and Leo McCarey wrote it. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on 16 November 1929. Filmed 30 August to 10 September 1929. Copyrighted 11 November 1929. Production number L-28, two reels. Richard C. Currier edited. Elmer Raguse recorded the sound. George Stevens and Len Powers photographed.
Themes
Making
Hal Roach produced the short as Laurel and Hardy series number L-28, a talking two-reeler.
Look
George Stevens and Len Powers shot the yard, the tree-felling, and the governor's car.
Music
A talking picture. William Axt is the music credit.
Preservation
Prints circulate, including a copy on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Tiny Sandford plays the warden. Charlie Hall is a lookout up a tree. Sam Lufkin is a camp officer.
- The prison yard is the one used two years earlier in The Second Hundred Years.
- The police wagon that delivers them carries the plate 17-118.
- William Axt is credited with the music; some credit lists add Spencer Williams.
Scenes
- Shotgun fire shreds their trousers after the rope ladder leaves them outside the gate.
- The tree they are cutting falls on the guard's tent as the governor arrives.
- Rice poured into the governor's radiator boils out and starts a food fight.
Also available
- Internet Archive (the-hoosegow_1929)
- Wikimedia Commons (The Hoose-Gow (1929).webm)
