Pack Up Your Troubles *** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway, Mary Carr, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7453

Directors George Marshall and Raymond McCarey’s 1932 feature-length comedy Pack Up Your Troubles stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and is written for them by H M Walker. It is made for the Hal Roach Studios and released by MGM.

It is 1917, and Laurel and Hardy are drafted in World War One and, after disrupting Uncle Sam in the first half of the film, seek out and look after their dead buddy Eddie Smith (as Don Dillaway)’s baby daughter (Jackie Lyn Dufton) in the second half after the Armistice.

Stan and Ollie’s second feature together (following Pardon Us) is uneven but very bright and jolly, with an effective mood switch from rumbustious to sentimental comedy.

Pack Up Your Troubles also features Don [Donald] Dillaway, Mary Carr, Charles Middleton, Richard [Dick] Cramer, James Finlayson, Adele Watson, Tom Kennedy, Richard Tucker, Muriel Evans, C Montague Shaw, Jackie Lyn Dufton, Billy Gilbert and Grady Sutton, with George Marshall as Pierre the Cook and Fred Kohler Jr as Doughboy.

It was released on September 23, 1932. It is of course named after the World War One song ‘Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile’.

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