The Chimp (1932)
0h 25m | PG-13
Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.
Director: James Parrott
Studio: Hal Roach Studios
Genre: Comedy
Video: 720p
Cast
Stan Laurel
as Stan
Oliver Hardy
as Ollie
James Finlayson
as Ringmaster
Billy Gilbert
as Joe the Landlord
Charles Gemora
as Ethel the Chimp (uncredited)
Dorothy Layton
as Laid-off Circus Performer (uncredited)
Reviews
This was a very enjoyable romp in which Laurel and Hardy drive a circus into bankruptcy, are paid a flea circus and a chimp instead of their wages, and are endangered by a jealous hotel owner who just happens to get their chimp confused with his errant wife of the same name. Essential comedy from the 30's.