You're Darn Tootin'
About You're Darn Tootin'
Stan and Ollie play in a municipal band in the park and keep missing conductor Otto Lederer's beat, so they are thrown out. Landlady Agnes Steele puts them out of the boarding house once she learns the job is gone. They try playing on the street, start kicking shins, and the fight spreads until men in the crowd are ripping off one another's trousers, a policeman's included. The two of them leave together inside one oversized pair of pants.
Cast & crew
More about You're Darn Tootin'
Edgar Kennedy, billed as E. Livingston Kennedy, directed. Hal Roach produced, H. M. Walker wrote the titles, and Leo McCarey shares the writing credit. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on April 21, 1928. The short was filmed in January 1928.
Themes
Reviews
William K. Everson, in The Films of Laurel and Hardy, set the boarding-house dinner and the shin-kicking, pants-ripping finish beside the pie fight in The Battle of the Century and called the street sequence one of their best pieces of controlled savagery. Leslie Halliwell noted a salt-shaker routine and the pants-ripping contest. Randy Skretvedt wrote that the short is the first clear statement of the Laurel and Hardy idea: they are the pearls trapped in the oyster.
Look
Floyd Jackman photographed the January 1928 shoot.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Notes
- Wikipedia gives the running time as 21 minutes 29 seconds. Richard C. Currier edited.
- In Britain it was released under the working title The Music Blasters. The American title is a phrase on the order of "You're darn right.
- Charlie Hall, Wilson Benge, Ham Kinsey, and William Irving play fellow musicians. Dick Gilbert is a boarder. Christian J. Frank is a policeman. Rolfe Sedan is a drunk. Chet Brandenburg is a manhole worker. Sam Lufkin is a man in a restaurant.
- Robert Youngson used scenes from it in silent-comedy compilations in the 1960s. BBC Four later played the short in full on Paul Merton's Silent Clowns, with a score written for that broadcast.
Scenes
- On the bandstand Stan and Ollie follow the wrong cue and lose the job.
- At dinner Ollie tries and fails to charm landlady Agnes Steele.
- The shin-kicking on the sidewalk turns into a pants-ripping brawl, and Stan and Ollie exit inside one pair of trousers.
Also available
- Internet Archive (youre-darn-tootin_1928)
