A Chump at Oxford (1940)
1h 1m | PG-13
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
Director: Alfred J. Goulding
Studio: Hal Roach Studios
Genre: Comedy
Video: 720p
Cast
Stan Laurel
as Stan
Oliver Hardy
as Ollie
Forrester Harvey
as Meredith
Wilfred Lucas
as Dean Williams
Forbes Murray
as Banker
Frank Baker
as Dean's Servant
Reviews
Great fun to watch some fine Laurel and Hardy set-pieces, wrecking an elite dinner party, foiling a bank robbery, being run over the coals twice during university initiation and finally Stan overcoming amnesia to discover he was once a prized Oxford great. Weirdly tied together, but it still works for me.