The boys in bowlers are back!  Join us for a glorious afternoon in the company of the world’s best-loved comedy team.

We begin with We Faw Down in which Stan and Ollie sneak off for a poker game but tell their wives they are going to the theatre. En route, the pair are side-tracked by a couple of good time gals.  What could possibly go wrong!  This well constructed film has lots of laughs and a characteristic premise that was later reworked for the duo’s feature-length sound classic Sons of the Desert.  

We round off the double-bill with a showing of one of Laurel and Hardy’s best loved silent films: Big Business, co-starring Falkirk’s own Jimmy Finlayson!  Stan and Ollie are door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen who go head-to-head with Finlayson’s reluctant customer.  Guess what!  Mayhem and destruction ensue.

Dir. Leo McCarey | US | 1928 | N/C U | b&w | English intertitles | 22m

Dir. James W. Horne, Leo McCarey | US | 1929 | N/C U | b&w | English intertitles | 22m
 
Performing live: John Sweeney (piano), Frank Bockius (percussion)

Courtesy of: FPA Classics (Lobster Films Collection)