A Chump at Oxford

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6.8

NR

Genre: Comedy
Release year: 1940
Running time: 61 min
Country: United States of America

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.

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Forrester Harvey
Meredith
Peter Cushing
Student
Oliver Hardy
Ollie
James Finlayson
Baldy Vandevere (uncredited)
Robert Kent
Minor Role (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Man in Unemployment Office (uncredited)
Richard Cramer
Minor Role (uncredited)
Frank Baker
Dean's Servant

Charley Rogers
Writer
Harry Langdon
Writer
Alfred J. Goulding
Director
Charles D. Hall
Art Direction
Felix Adler
Writer
Ernest Smith
Additional Camera

talisencrw 6/23/2021 3:57:48PM 8.4

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.

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