Since he’s smitten with her, he returns it, and discovers Susan is being swindled by some gangland goons. The scam gets uncovered in the small town of Midville, where Chester accidentally steals pretty young Susan’s purse. Stan and Ollie are two itinerant musicians (“The Original Zoot Suit Band”) conned into aiding con artist Chester Wright into hawking “instant gas pills”. That’s what makes later L&H efforts like JITTERBUGS so depressing. No longer in control of their material, the roles they played could’ve been filled by any pair of comic actors. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were two of the screen’s most beloved comics. Their Hal Roach comedy shorts contain some of the screen’s funniest moments, capitalizing on their unique comic personas. But by the 1940’s, Stan and Ollie had separated from Roach, and were plying their trade in features at 20th Century Fox.
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