Two Tars

Two Tars
Theatrical poster
Directed by	James Parrott
Produced by	Hal Roach
Written by	Leo McCarey (story) H.M. Walker (titles)
Starring	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy
Cinematography	George Stevens
Edited by	Richard C. Currier
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	November 3, 1928 (1928-11-03)
Running time	21 min.
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English (Original intertitles)

Two Tars is a Laurel and Hardy short film, directed by James Parrott and released in 1928. A silent film, it largely consists of a 'reciprocal destruction' involving motorists in a traffic jam, which has much inventive mayhem with the destruction of various automobiles.

Plot

Sailors on leave, Laurel and Hardy pick up two girls and spend the afternoon driving in the country. They find themselves in the middle of a huge traffic jam. Tempers boil over among the motorists, and soon the street is a mess of mangled cars and car parts.

Cast

Stan Laurel - Stan
Oliver Hardy - Ollie
Edgar Kennedy - Motorist
Thelma Hill - Brunette girl
Ruby Blaine - Blonde girl
Harry Bernard - Truck driver
Chet Brandenburg - Motorist
Baldwin Cooke - Motorist
Edgar Dearing - Motorcycle policeman
Frank Ellis - Motorist
Helen Gilmore - Motorist
Clara Guiol - Motorist
Charlie Hall -Shopkeeper
Jack Hill - Motorist with mattress
Fred Holmes - Motorist
Ham Kinsey
Sam Lufkin
Charles McMurphy
Retta Palmer
Lon Poff
Thomas Benton Roberts
Charley Rogers
George Rowe
Lyle Tayo
Ollie Young

Production

One of the most elaborate silent comedy shorts, "Two Tars" was filmed as a three reel comedy originally called "Two Tough Tars" and edited to two reels. The opening scenes were shot on Main Street in Culver City, and the car battle scenes were filmed in Santa Monica along what is now Centinela Boulevard.

The Sons of the Desert

Chapters — called Tents — of The Sons of the Desert, the international Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society, all take their names from L&H films. There are four Two Tars Tents in Solingen, Germany; Guernsey, Channel Islands; North Illinois/Wisconsin Border; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A fifth Two Tars Tent was established in Reidsville, North Carolina, but is no longer active.

References

External links

Two Tars at the Internet Movie Database
Two Tars at AllMovie
Two Tars at Rotten Tomatoes

Laurel and Hardy

Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy

Stan Laurel filmography Oliver Hardy filmography Combined filmography Laurel and Hardy (animated series) Music The Sons of the Desert

Laurel and Hardy filmography

Silent short films (starring roles)	The Lucky Dog (1921) Duck Soup (1927) Slipping Wives (1927) Love 'em and Weep (1927) Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) With Love and Hisses (1927) Sugar Daddies (1927) Sailors, Beware! (1927) The Second Hundred Years (1927) Hats Off (1927) Do Detectives Think? (1927) Putting Pants on Philip (1927) The Battle of the Century (1927) Leave 'Em Laughing (1928) Flying Elephants (1928) The Finishing Touch (1928) From Soup to Nuts (1928) You're Darn Tootin' (1928) Their Purple Moment (1928) Should Married Men Go Home? (1928) Early to Bed (1928) Two Tars (1928) Habeas Corpus (1928) We Faw Down (1928) Liberty (1929) Wrong Again (1929) That's My Wife (1929) Big Business (1929) Double Whoopee (1929) Bacon Grabbers (1929) Angora Love (1929)

Talking short films (starring roles)	Unaccustomed As We Are (1929) Berth Marks (1929) Men O' War (1929) Perfect Day (1929) They Go Boom (1929) The Hoose-Gow (1929) Night Owls (1930) Blotto (1930) Brats (1930) Below Zero (1930) Hog Wild (1930) The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) Another Fine Mess (1930) Be Big! (1931) Chickens Come Home (1931) Laughing Gravy (1931) Our Wife (1931) Come Clean (1931) One Good Turn (1931) Beau Hunks (1931) Helpmates (1932) Any Old Port! (1932) The Music Box (1932) The Chimp (1932) County Hospital (1932) Scram! (1932) Their First Mistake (1932) Towed in a Hole (1932) Twice Two (1933) Me and My Pal (1933) The Midnight Patrol (1933) Busy Bodies (1933) Dirty Work (1933) Oliver the Eighth (1934) Going Bye-Bye! (1934) Them Thar Hills (1934) The Live Ghost (1934) Tit for Tat (1935) The Fixer Uppers (1935) Thicker than Water (1935)

Short films (as guests)	45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) Now I'll Tell One (1927) Call of the Cuckoo (1927) The Stolen Jools (1931) On the Loose (1931) Wild Poses (1933) On the Wrong Trek (1936) Galaxy of Stars (1936) The Tree in a Test Tube (1942)

Feature films (starring roles)	Pardon Us (1931) Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) Fra Diavolo / The Devil's Brother / Bogus Bandits (1933) Sons of the Desert (1933) Babes in Toyland (1934) Bonnie Scotland (1935) The Bohemian Girl (1936) Our Relations (1936) Way Out West (1937) Swiss Miss (1938) Block-Heads (1938) The Flying Deuces (1939) A Chump at Oxford (1940) Saps at Sea (1940) Great Guns (1941) A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) Air Raid Wardens (1943) Jitterbugs (1943) The Dancing Masters (1943) The Big Noise (1944) Nothing But Trouble (1944) The Bullfighters (1945) Atoll K / Utopia (1951)

Feature films (as guests)	The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) The Rogue Song (1930) Hollywood Party (1934) Pick a Star (1937)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, February 06, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.