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A Film that’s Strictly L.R.O. — Laughing Room Only (October, 1931)

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Famous Firsts: Laurel & Hardy’s first feature length venture.

Seems producer Hal Roach wanted to use some of the sets left over from MGM’s big-budget prison picture The Big House to do a prison-movie spoof, and so, he sent Stan and Ollie to the slammer.

Pardon Us (1931) Hal Roach Studios :: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Hal Roach / D: James Parrott / W: H.M. Walker / C: Jack Stevens / E: Richard C. Currier / M: Leroy Shield / S: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe, Wilfred Lucas, Walter Long