Busy Bodies

Busy Bodies
Directed by	Lloyd French
Produced by	Hal Roach
Starring	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Charlie Hall Tiny Sandford
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	1933
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	The Midnight Patrol
Followed by	Dirty Work

Busy Bodies is a 1933 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. A series of gags set in a sawmill, it is often regarded as one of their best sound shorts despite there being virtually no plot.

Stan and Ollie arrive in high spirits for their new jobs at the sawmill and after walking into planks of wood Stan traps Ollie's hands in a window frame. After freeing him they trick Charlie Hall into smoking despite a "No Smoking" sign. Stan then tears a strip off Ollie's pants with a plane and in the resulting 'tit for tat' dips a paintbrush in glue and sticks it onto Ollie's chin. Finding it is not possible to pull it off he prepares like a barber and shaves it with a plane. Ollie then gets propelled through a ventilator duct and out of an attic vent port and their car gets sawed in two lengthwise by a large band saw.

External links

Busy Bodies at the Internet Movie Database

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Silent short films (Starring roles)	The Lucky Dog (1921) • Duck Soup (1927) • Slipping Wives (1927) • Love 'em and Weep (1927) • Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) • With Love and Hisses (1927) • Sugar Daddies (1927) • Now I'll Tell One (1927) • Sailors, Beware! (1927) • The Second Hundred Years (1927) • Hats Off (1927) • Do Detectives Think? (1927) • Putting Pants on Philip (1927) • The Battle of the Century (1927) • Leave 'Em Laughing (1928) • Flying Elephants (1928) • The Finishing Touch (1928) • From Soup to Nuts (1928) • You're Darn Tootin' (1928) • Their Purple Moment (1928) • Should Married Men Go Home? (1928) • Early to Bed (1928) • Two Tars (1928) • Habeas Corpus (1928) • We Faw Down (1928) • Liberty (1929) • Wrong Again (1929) • That's My Wife (1929) • Big Business (1929) • Double Whoopee (1929) • Bacon Grabbers (1929) • Angora Love (1929)

Talking short films (Starring roles)	Unaccustomed As We Are (1929) • Berth Marks (1929) • Men O' War (1929) • Perfect Day (1929) • They Go Boom (1929) • The Hoose-Gow (1929) • Night Owls (1930) • Blotto (1930) • Brats (1930) • Below Zero (1930) • Hog Wild (1930) • The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) • Another Fine Mess (1930) • Be Big! (1931) • Chickens Come Home (1931) • Laughing Gravy (1931) • Our Wife (1931) • Come Clean (1931) • One Good Turn (1931) • Beau Hunks (1931) • Helpmates (1932) • Any Old Port! (1932) • The Music Box (1932) • The Chimp (1932) • County Hospital (1932) • Scram! (1932) • Their First Mistake (1932) • Towed in a Hole (1932) • Twice Two (1933) • Me and My Pal (1933) • The Midnight Patrol (1933) • Busy Bodies (1933) • Dirty Work (1933) • Oliver the Eighth (1934) • Going Bye-Bye! (1934) • Them Thar Hills (1934) • The Live Ghost (1934) • Tit for Tat (1935) • The Fixer Uppers (1935) • Thicker than Water (1935)

Short films (As guests)	45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) • Call of the Cuckoo (1927) • The Stolen Jools (1931) • On the Loose (1931) • Wild Poses (1933) • On the Wrong Trek (1936) • The Tree in a Test Tube (1942)

Feature films (Starring roles)	Pardon Us (1931) • Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) • Fra Diavolo/ The Devil's Brother/Bogus Bandits (1933) • Sons of the Desert (1933) • Babes in Toyland (1934) • Bonnie Scotland (1935) • The Bohemian Girl (1936) • Our Relations (1936) • Way Out West (1937) • Swiss Miss (1938) • Block-Heads (1938) • The Flying Deuces (1939) • A Chump at Oxford (1940) • Saps at Sea (1940) • Great Guns (1941) • A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) • Air Raid Wardens (1943) • Jitterbugs (1943) • The Dancing Masters (1943) • The Big Noise (1944) • Nothing But Trouble (1944) • The Bullfighters (1945) • Atoll K / Utopia (1951)

Feature films (As guests)	The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) • The Rogue Song (1930) • Hollywood Party (1934) • Pick a Star (1937)

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