45 Minutes from Hollywood

MOVIE #1,432 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 03.11.24 Laurel and Hardy aren't the main focus of this early silent (and extremely scatterbrained) short. This is mainly a vehicle for Glenn Tryon. The plot surrounds a family who live — you guessed it — “45 minutes from Hollywood,” who need to go to La La Land to pay a bill or something? I’m not sure. Stan shows up in drag at one point. The original story of the family going to Hollywood completely dissolves and in the end we just have a series of goofs and gags that are mostly pretty neat and enjoyable. Like this cow tail becoming a❓…

...some delightful backgrounds...


...a Little Rascals cameo...


...and this painted-on-film animation of a loose cat...


In the past, I've been nonplussed about silent films in general. But these short-form comedic ones are right up my alley.

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45 Minutes From Hollywood is a 1926 American two-reel silent comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and released by Pathé Exchange. The film's runtime is 15 minutes. At the time, it was known as a Glenn Tryon vehicle, but today it is best remembered as the second instance of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appearing in the same film together — although they do not share any scenes — at least half a decade after their first chance billing in The Lucky Dog (1921). It was released on December 26, 1926.