Another Fine Mess

Another Fine Mess is a Laurel & Hardy sound short film released 29 November 1930. 
== Summary ==
The mansion of Allan Quatermain-style adventurer Colonel Wilberforce Buckshot is to be rented while he is off on a hunting trip in Africa. Meanwhile, Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel are being chased by a police officer. The officer tells another that the duo are vagrants he was trying to clear out of a park, only for Stan to make him violently angry after accidentally calling him "ma'am". Stan and Ollie hide in the basement of the mansion. There, they overhear the butler and maid sneaking off for a holiday to get away from their eccentric owner, leaving the house empty. With the officer loitering around the building trying to find them, the duo become trapped.
Just then, a rich couple - Lady and Lord Plumtree - arrive, seeking to rent the house. Ollie has Stan disguise himself as the butler, dubbing him "Hives", and tell them they need to leave. Stan tries, but seeing the officer still outside, he instead decides to keep them occupied to avoid drawing attention and calls for Buckshot. This forces Ollie to play the role of Buckshot. Stan and Ollie are forced to keep entertaining the couple, with Stan further dressing up as Hives' twin sister and the maid, Agnes, and end up endearing themselves to the Plumtrees.
The real Colonel Buckshot unexpectedly returns to fetch his bow and arrows, only to find the disorder that had ensued after his departure. Stan and Ollie try to entertain him, but eventually see a portrait on the wall that makes them realize the truth and proceed to flee into a closet. The colonel, assuming Stan and Ollie are burglar, alerts the police outside and calls for backup. Lord Plumtree, oblivious to the situation, directs Buckshot and the police to the closet. Stan and Ollie escape dressed as a wildebeest on a stolen tandem bicycle. Chased by the police while Buckshot taunts them from his home, they ride into a railroad tunnel. A tram soon comes by and splits the bicycle in half while also literally stripping the officers of their uniforms. Stan and Ollie emerge from the tunnel riding "unicycles" and slowly pedal to their fate.
== Cast ==
* Stan Laurel as Stan
* Oliver Hardy as Ollie 
* Harry Bernard as policeman
* Bobby Burns as bicyclist
* Betty Mae Crane as talking titles
* Beverly Crane as talking titles
* Eddie Dunn as Meadows
* James Finlayson as Colonel Wilburforce Buckshot
* Charles K. Gerrard as Lord Leopold Ambrose Plumtree
* Bill Knight as policeman
* Bob Mimford as policeman
* Gertrude Sutton as Agnes the maid
* Thelma Todd as Lady Plumtree
 
Category:Films
Category:Laurel & Hardy films
Category:A nice mess