Hinter Schloß und Riegel (1931)
43KHinter Schloß und Riegel: Directed by James Parrott. With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe, Wilfred Lucas. Two guys end up in prison after attempting to sell beer to a policeman during Prohibition.
“Laurel And Hardy made their first starring feature film for Hal Roach with Pardon Us. Itu0026#39;s a prison picture, but this correctional facility will never be the same now that Stan and Ollie have served time there.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThey were not very good as bootleggers selling some of their illegal stock to an undercover policeman and got sent to the big house. Where Stan makes an inexplicable friend in the toughest con in the joint Walter Long. Ollie is not so similarly fortunate, but Long tolerates him as long as heu0026#39;s with Stan. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStan has an additional problem. A loose tooth has him make the noises of a Bronx Cheer at the most inopportune moment. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film has a large black cast of extras because part of the plot involves the boys escaping and eluding their captors while in blackface pretending to be field hands. Unlike a lot of films the black people here are portrayed with dignity. The sequences show the singing talents of Ollie and Stan does a nice patter with a dance. Since the blackface is integral to the plot Iu0026#39;ve not heard any objections raised to it here.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt was a good beginning for Stan and Ollie in sound feature films.”
