Putting Pants on Philip

1927

Comedy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 31%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 1166 1.2K

scotland kilt black and white tailor silent film short film

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

Jack Hill Photo
Jack Hill as Extra
Bob O'Connor Photo
Bob O'Connor as Extra
Stan Laurel Photo
Stan Laurel as Philip
Oliver Hardy Photo
Oliver Hardy as J. Piedmont Mumblethunder
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189.37 MB
1280*958
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
12 hr 20 min
Seeds 1
351.92 MB
1434*1074
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
12 hr 20 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boblipton 7 / 10

At Long Last Love

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy had been circling each other at the Roach lot for two or three years by the time this, the first official Laurel & Hardy movie was made. In fact, their first movie together had been in 1919, when Hardy played a bit in Laurel's starring vehicle LUCKY DOG. They don't even act like a team here, being in constant opposition to each other, and Stan's character as a naive Scotchman is nothing at all like the Mr. Laurel we know and love.Mr. Hardy, on the other hand, is clearly himself. If you look at his earliest surviving shorts from 1914 and 1915, you can see bits and pieces of his slow, pompous character as he begins to put it together.It's a Laurel & Hardy short, and it's funny, even if it's not Stan and Ollie yet. Even so, Hal Roach and his team knew they were onto something.
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.
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