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The last Laurel and Hardy all-silent film is Angora Love, in which Stan and Babe come across a stray goat who has just broken loose from a local pet store. Hungry and down on their luck (as usual), the boys are sharing a doughnut, with Stan giving a piece to the goat. Thinking that they have more treats, the goat follows them everywhere, while the boys try every means to elude their fragrant friend. Eventually they are forced to sneak their new find into Edgar Kennedy's rooming house, where they try to keep the goat's noises from disturbing the landlord. Later, a water fight escalates after the boys vain attempts to give the goat a bath go awry. This whole sequence was remade verbatim in the 1931 talkie Laughing Gravy. As an interesting sidelight, Angora Love proved successful not only because of the excellent teamwork of Laurel and Hardy, but because of the people behind the scenes as well. The director was Lewis R. Foster, who later won an Academy Award in the original story category for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939). Supervising Director was Leo McCarey, who would go on to direct many great hits like "Duck Soup" (1933), "Going My Way" (1944), The Bells of St. Mary" (1945), and who won an Oscar for "The Awful Truth" (1937) with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. Cinematographer George Stevens likewise went on to be one of Hollywood's finest filmmakers, turning out such hits as "Gunga Din" (1939), "The Talk of the Town" (1942), "A Place in the Sun" (1951), and "Shane" (1953). >>Top of Page | Return to Films Index
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