Duck Soup (1927)

Duck Soup

1927

Comedy

Synopsis

Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.

Credits

Director

Fred Guiol

Cast

Bob Kortman as Forest Ranger

Charlie Hall as Moving man (uncredited)

James A. Marcus as Colonel Buckshot (uncredited)

Madeline Hurlock as Lady Tarbotham

Oliver Hardy as Maltravers

Stan Laurel as Hives

William Austin as Lord Tarbotham

William Courtright as Colonel Buckshot's Butler (uncredited)