Harold B. Lee Library

Sons of the Desert

Starring Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Dorothy Christie, Charley Chase.

• Time: 7:00 PM
• Date: Friday, Arpil 10, 2009
• Place: HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.

About the Event
Starring Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Dorothy Christie, Charley Chase. Laurel and Hardy promise fraternal lodge brothers to attend their annual convention in Chicago, except that no one had asked Mrs. Hardy, who wants to vacation in the mountains. The boys concoct a ruse to go to Hawaii for Ollie’s “health,” only to have it unravel in the customarily hilarious Laurel & Hardy manner. Superb timing, fully realized characterizations, and excellent direction by veteran comedy expert William Seiter make Sons of the Desert one of the great comedies of the 1930s. An international fan club for Laurel & Hardy, created in the mid-1960s and still in existence, takes its name from this film. Hal Roach/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1933.  68 mins. Director: William A. Seiter.

Links and Materials

• Digital Copy of Original Poster

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