Hog Wild **** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8529

Director James Parrott’s 1930 comedy short Hog Wild finds Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy at their finest and funniest in a continuous series of perfectly carried out gags, with the most intricate attention paid to the minutiae of character, detail and believable incident.

In the story by Leo McCarey, the shrewish Mrs Hardy (Fay Holderness) is on the warpath, so Hardy gets Laurel’s help (‘well, alright, if you’ll really help me’) in trying to erect a radio aerial on his roof after she insists on him doing this before he goes off having fun with Stan.

Also in the cast are Dorothy Granger and Charles McMurphy.

Hog Wild is directed by James Parrott, runs 20 minutes, is made by Hal Roach Studios, is released by MGM, is written by H M Walker and Leo McCarey, is shot in black and white by Jack Stevens, is produced by Hal Roach and is scored by Marvin Hatley, Alice K Howlett and Hal Roach.

It is shot in black and white but there is also a colorized version.

Most of the scenes at the end when Stan is driving the car with Ollie still on top of the ladder were filmed on the campus of the University of Southern California.

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