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The Chimp
1932·25 min·★ 6.6
Comedy
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.
Status
Released
Cast
Stan Laurel
Stan
Oliver Hardy
Ollie
James Finlayson
Ringmaster (uncredited)
Billy Gilbert
Joe the Landlord (uncredited)
Charles Gemora
Ethel the Chimp (uncredited)
Dorothy Layton
Laid-off Circus Performer (uncredited)
Discussion
talisencrw★ 9/10
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.
