Sons of the Desert

1933

Action / Comedy / Family / Music

24
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 87% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 10085 10.1K

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Plot summary

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

Director

William A. Seiter Photo
William A. Seiter

Top cast

John Elliott Photo
John Elliott as Exalted Exhausted Ruler
Ellen Corby Photo
Ellen Corby as Dress Person at Table Next to Chase's
Robert Cummings Photo
Robert Cummings as Steamship Announcement Witness
Oliver Hardy Photo
Oliver Hardy as Ollie
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522.16 MB
992*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
25 fps
1 hr 8 min
Seeds 2
1020.28 MB
1456*1056
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
25 fps
1 hr 8 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by wes-connors 8 / 10

Another Fine Mess

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy want to go to their 87th annual "Sons of the Desert" convention in Chicago, which no member has ever missed. But, domineering wives Mae Busch (as Lottie) and Dorothy Christy (as Betty) have other ideas. The women want to vacation in the mountains. While Ms. Christy gives permission for Mr. Laurel to attend the convention, Ms. Busch isn't so accommodating. So, Mr. Hardy decides to play sick, which (somewhat inexplicably) earns he and Laurel a trip to Hawaii (Chicago), without the wives.Laurel & Hardy perform the old story smoothly; this film surely earns them the plot's patent. Clever scripting (Frank Craven) and direction (William A. Seiter) keeps things moving, and bits are well chosen. The slapstick hits a little too hard, sometimes; with the coming of sound, some of the physical comedy would look better in moderation (with a silly sound effect). Busch is one of the best Laurel & Hardy "wives". The duo's convention appearance, with the riotous Charley Chase is fantastic -- it includes a great theme song, "Honolulu Baby", performed by Ty Parvis and his hilarious hula dancers. Oh, lei!
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Reviewed by CuriosityKilledShawn 7 / 10

Tee hee

Stan and Ollie are part of a Freemason's lodge and take an oath to go to their annual convention in Chicago. No one has ever broken this oath in the zillion year history of the Sons of the Desert Lodge so they'd better now screw up.

Only Stan and Ollie are both dominated by their wives who won't allow them to do anything with-out strict approval first. So they concoct a plan that involves pretending to go to Hawaii for a relaxing cruise but really going off to the windy city.

Too bad the ship sinks on the way their and they have fake being rescued (much quicker than everyone else) when they come back from the convention. Loads of hectic hiding and digging out of deep trouble follow.

Much funnier than I've made it sound. Honest!

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