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A Chump at Oxford

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The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1940-01-25

Runtime: 61 mins

Director: Alfred J. Goulding

Writer: Felix Adler, Charley Rogers, Harry Langdon

Spoken language: English

Genres: Comedy

Original title: A Chump at Oxford

Production Companies: Hal Roach Studios

Production Countries: United States of America

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Great fun to watch some fine Laurel and Hardy set-pieces, wrecking an elite dinner party, foiling a bank robbery, being run over the coals twice during university initiation and finally Stan overcoming amnesia to discover he was once a prized Oxford great. Weirdly tied together, but it still works for me.
2016-06-29

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