Putting Pants on Philip

1927

Comedy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 31%
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 1128 1.1K

scotland kilt black and white tailor silent film short film

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Plot summary

Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.

Director

Clyde Bruckman Photo
Clyde Bruckman

Top cast

Oliver Hardy Photo
Oliver Hardy as J. Piedmont Mumblethunder
Stan Laurel Photo
Stan Laurel as Philip
Retta Palmer Photo
Retta Palmer as Extra
Harvey Clark Photo
Harvey Clark as Tailor
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189.37 MB
1280*958
English 2.0
NR
fr  
24 fps
12 hr 20 min
Seeds 1
351.92 MB
1434*1074
English 2.0
NR
fr  
24 fps
12 hr 20 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by classicsoncall 6 / 10

"I never wore a set of pants in my life".

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 6 / 10

Stan and Ollie become a team

The first "official" Laurel and Hardy movie is not like the ones with which we're more familiar. In this case, Laurel is a man from Scotland and Hardy is his uncle greeting him in the US. To be certain, Stan wears a kilt and tam, while Hardy wears a porkpie hat (like Buster Keaton wore). A couple of the scenes in "Putting Pants on Philip" were probably risqué for the time (a couple of them predict Marilyn Monroe's most famous stunt).Basically, Stan and Ollie were just beginning as a team, so they hadn't yet figured out a style. Nevertheless, the end gag is funny enough. Mostly worth seeing as a historical note.
Reviewed by TheLittleSongbird 7 / 10

The tailor's new pants

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were comedic geniuses, individually and together, and their partnership was deservedly iconic and one of the best there was. They left behind a large body of work, a vast majority of it being entertaining to classic comedy, at their best they were hilarious and their best efforts were great examples of how to do comedy without being juvenile or distasteful.'Putting Pants on Phillip' is nowhere near classic Laurel and Hardy, later films, short and feature, had stronger chemistry when fully formed and used their considerable talents better. At this point, Laurel was much funnier and more interesting while Hardy in most of the previous outings had too little to do. 'Putting Pants on Phillip' is still worth watching and is an improvement on some of their previous short films, to me it's easily one of their best at this point of their careers and one of the first to feel like a Laurel and Hardy short rather than a short featuring them.Personally would have liked more sly wit that made their later entries better, though the slapstick does entertain and is timed well if a bit too far on the simplicity.The story is a bit busy at times and both slight and formulaic. Laurel however is very funny, and sometimes hilarious. Hardy is at least not wasted, and he does give one of his funniest and most interesting appearances of his pairings with Laurel up to this point and has much more to do in comparison to their previous outings. The chemistry is certainly much more here than in previous outings of theirs, namely because there's more of them together, if still evolving. Support is nice.A good deal of the humour is well timed, hugely energetic and very funny, with everything going at a lively pace, and there is a lot of charm and good nature to keep one going, as well as a surprising bizarre one that doesn't feel too much. 'Putting Pants on Phillip' looks quite good still.To conclude, decent and far from pants. 7/10 Bethany Cox
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