Wandering Papas

Name: Wandering Papas
Director: Stan Laurel
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1926
Duration: 8 min
Cast: Clyde Cook, Oliver Hardy, Sally O'Neil, Tyler Brooke, Adolph Milar

1926 Comedy 8 minutes Directed by Stan Laurel

About Wandering Papas

The cook for a bridge crew is sent out for a dinner in hotel style: trout as at the Ritz, rabbit as at the Palmer House, and a frosted cake. On the way he meets a hermit who will not let anyone see his daughter. He still has to get back and cook the meal. Clyde Cook plays the cook. Oliver Hardy, billed as Babe Hardy, plays the foreman.

Cast & crew

More about Wandering Papas

Stan Laurel directed. Hal Roach produced. Writing credits on the Wikipedia infobox are Laurel, H. M. Walker, and Hal Yates. Glen Carrier, Len Powers, and Frank Young photographed it. Richard C. Currier edited. Pathé released it on 21 February 1926. One listing gives 8 minutes. Sue O'Neill plays Susie, the hermit's daughter. Tyler Brooke plays Onion, a bridge engineer. Adolph Milar plays the hermit.

Themes

A hotel dinner ordered at a bridge camp
A hermit guarding his daughter
A cook who still has to serve the meal
Clyde Cook
Oliver Hardy
hermit
bridge camp
trout
Stan Laurel
Pathé

Making

Laurel sends the cook off the construction camp on a grocery errand and drops a hermit between him and the dinner.

Look

Glen Carrier, Len Powers, and Frank Young shot the camp and the open country the cook crosses.

Music

Silent, with English intertitles.

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

The shopping list is specific: Ritz trout, Palmer House rabbit, and a frosted cake measured at 15 centimeters.
Hardy is the foreman, not the cook. Laurel does not appear. He only directs.
The hermit's rule is that nobody looks at his daughter.
Sally O'Neil on some cast sheets and Sue O'Neill on the Wikipedia cast are the daughter.
A print survives.