Sailors, Beware!

MOVIE #1,733 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.17.24 Sailors, Beware! features a ridiculous plot centered around a woman and her accomplice, disguised as a baby, who are revealed to be criminals. This “baby” is an adult actor with some kind of aging disorder (I think??): I really have no idea. I just love when these comic shorts lean into an insane, original set-up. Stan stars as a taxi driver who picks up this pair and drives them to a departing ship. When they don’t pay the fare, he follows them onboard and is immediately put into indentured servitude by the captain because he doesn’t have a ticket for the ride. This is more centered on Stan's goofs with the “baby” (he gets swindled in a game of trick dice and ends up kicking him down a flight of stairs and letting him get tossed down a shoot — see below), but Ollie is featured prominently too as a crewmember on the vessel. Very solid effort. Feels like a varied, inspired entry in the Fred Guiol canon.

Also, some early 'upskirt action' (sorry)...

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Sailors, Beware! is a silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951. It was released on September 25, 1927.