Nothing but Trouble (1944 film)
- Oliver Hardy Oliver
- Stan Laurel: Stan
- David Leland: Christopher King
- Mary Boland: Mrs. Hawkley
- Philip Merivale: Prince Saul
- Henry O'Neill: Mr. Hawkley
- John Warburton: Saul's secretary
The body cooks his majesty (Original Title: Nothing but Trouble, TV Title: Nothing but trouble ) is a comedy by Sam Taylor and one of the last films of Laurel and Hardy.
Action
The butler and the chef Stan Oliver return after several years in the U.S., where currently there is full employment, so that all employers want in the employment agency, they undertake. Ultimately, they work in the rich Mrs. Hawkley and her husband, Basil Hawkley. Random boy on a dive at the two, posing as Chris and told them to have no parents. The two grant him in the house hiding in the kitchen and hide him. What the two did not know Chris is in reality the exiled king of Orlandia. His guardian and uncle, Prince Saul wants to be rid of him, because Christopher's ideas for a regency appear to him to be modern and democratic. In the evening dinner the Hawkleys welcome calculated Prince Saul as a guest. The dinner ends thanks to Stan and Ollie in a disaster and is discovered when the boy to top it all of Mrs. Hawkley, she dismisses Stan and Oliver.
The two go with Chris in a man's pension. Meanwhile, a reward of $ 1,000 has been suspended from his uncle to retrieve the boy. Then Stan and Oliver are slandered; they are suspected to have kidnapped the boy, and arrested. The boy - now back at his uncle Saul - collect, but from prison and asks his uncle to set the two at all times. Saul sets the two, but just so you can shake up the tollpatschiegen Duo some poison into his food for Christopher King, so that he dies and you can later make the two responsible. When that does not work, because Stan and Ollie argue about which piece to get Christopher Saul threatened the two and Christopher. He will cause them to jump out the window. In the floor below depend for renovations two bars out of the window over which Christopher can save them. The bars are drawn away, as Stan and Oliver want to jump down. The danger is averted when Prince Saul the food with the poison, which was actually intended for Christopher, eats. Finally, we see Stan, Oliver, Christopher, and the police in the kitchen as they sing a song.
Background
- The film was the third last Laurel and Hardy comedy. Both performers were already over 50 years old and had passed the zenith of its success after working with Hal Roach ended. The mode of production of MGM in this film was very different from those previously at Roach. The two comedians had been working strictly according to script. Improvisations in front of the camera - with Roach on the agenda - there was virtually no more. In addition to that Laurel had received no contractual assurance of the creative staff behind the camera. This slipped from the duo of influence on his films so much that it declined the offer over a five - year contract from Fox in the summer of 1945. 1950/51 was with Atoll K, the last film as a British- French-Italian co-production.
- The silent film legend Buster Keaton, a close friend of Stan Laurel, was used as a gag writer.
- The actor Christopher, David Leland died just four years after the movie at the age of 16 years from sepsis.
Reviews
" The last film comedy of the two for a large studio MGM shows only limited their qualities, they rather diluted by numerous sentimentality. Nevertheless, amusing entertainment. "