Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack. Kennedy comes across vagrants Laurel and Hardy that night and persuades them to rob the chief's house to get in his boss's good books. The boys, believing it to be too dangerous, at first refuse. After Kennedy threatens them with ninety days on "the rockpile," and assures them he will get them released after they're caught, they agree to the ruse. Stan and Ollie encounter various problems but after various complications, the chief catches Kennedy with various valuables in his house, while the boys manage somehow to escape.
Stan Laurel as Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy as Oliver "Ollie" Hardy
Edgar Kennedy as Officer Kennedy
James Finlayson as Butler Meadows
Anders Randolf as the Police Captain
1930
Directed by James Parrott
Written by H.M. Walker
Produced by Hal Roach
Starring Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Edgar Kennedy
James Finlayson
Cinematography George Stevens
Edited by Richard C. Currier
Music by Marvin Hatley
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date January 4, 1930
This was the first film to use their celebrated theme tune, "The 'Ku-Ku' Song", written by Marvin Hatley. The Film Classics reissue print features the instrumental version of Marvin Hatley's "Honolulu Baby" from the Sons of the Desert soundtrack in place of "The 'Ku-Ku' Song."
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