Jitterbugs
1943  NR  COMEDY  1h 14min
CAST— Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivian Blaine, Douglas Fowley, Noel Madison, Lee Patrick, Robert Emmett Keane
MUSIC— Lew Pollack, Leigh Harline  DIRECTOR— Mal St. Clair

     Laughs abound in this feature from Laurel and Hardy. Here the boys are a travelling two-man band who come across a travelling salesman selling instant gasoline pills. Of course this guy is a con artist, but this fact eludes L&H, so they all team up to sell gas pills at a county fair. There the conman meets a pretty girl whose mother was fleeced out of $10,000. Who better to retrieve the cash but another conman? These four decide to enact their own con game, involving false identities, switcheroos and Stan in drag (always worth the price of admission). Several generic song and dance numbers predictably dampen the comedy, but rest assured, there’s plenty of funny to be had, all courtesy of the several fine messes Stan gets Ollie into.
OUR RATING— ***