Another Fine Mess

Another Fine Mess (1930) is a Laurel and Hardy short comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by James Parrott. Running 28 minutes, it is one of the pair's most intricately constructed farces.

Stan and Ollie are on the run from a cop. They duck into a vacant mansion — the colonel owner is away in South Africa, the staff gone for the day — just as a lord and lady arrive to inspect the place as a potential rental. Ollie instantly declares himself Colonel Buckshot. Stan, with considerably less conviction, becomes both butler and maid simultaneously. The policeman circles outside. Each knock at the door tightens the screws. Thelma Todd brings a sharp comic edge to the chaos. Stream Another Fine Mess (1930) online on iFILM.