With Love and Hisses (1927)

Name: With Love and Hisses
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1927-08-28
Duration: 21 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin, Janet Gaynor

With Love and Hisses (1927), directed by Fred Guiol, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

08/28/1927 BR Comedy 21m

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Synopsis

Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.

Fred GuiolDirector

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With Love and Hisses is a 1927 American silent comedy short film directed by Fred Guiol and 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 1950. With Love and Hisses features Laurel as the lead comedian with Hardy in a supporting role.

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Plot

Private Cuthbert Hope, a well-meaning but inept soldier, continually exasperates his superior, the irascible Sergeant Banner, who in turn answers to the equally temperamental Captain Bustle.

While departing by train, Captain Bustle becomes distracted by a group of female admirers and inadvertently steps off the platform before boarding. Once aboard, he discovers Sergeant Banner occupying his compartment and helping himself to the captain's lunch. Meanwhile, Hope is forced to share a compartment with a fellow soldier whose pungent garlic-and-Limburger-cheese sandwich proves intolerable. In an attempt to rid himself of the offending meal, Hope inadvertently sends it into Captain Bustle's face.

Later, during a strenuous march on a sweltering day, Banner's squad succumbs to temptation and stops for a swim in a nearby lake, leaving their uniforms unattended. A discarded cigar accidentally ignites the clothing, destroying the soldiers' uniforms. Their efforts to return to camp unnoticed lead to further disaster when they disturb a hornets' nest, which follows them back to camp and unleashes chaos throughout the military installation.