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A Chump at Oxford is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Alfred J. Goulding released in USA on 16 february 1940 with Stan Laurel

A Chump at Oxford (1940)

A Chump at Oxford
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Released in USA 16 february 1940
Length 1h3
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating71% 3.594123.594123.594123.594123.59412

A Chump at Oxford, directed in 1939 by Alfred J. Goulding and released in 1940 by United Artists, was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Hal Roach studios. Originally released as a streamliner featurette at forty minutes long, twenty minutes of footage largely unrelated to the main plot were later added for the European distribution. The longer version is the one most often seen today.

Synopsis

Stan and Ollie are down to their last six bucks and call a lift to a job agency to find work. A City Water Dept. truck driver offers them a lift and drenches them with water as a joke and leaves them behind. They finally arrive in a badly damaged car that has been towed away. At the job agency a call comes from Mrs. Vandeveer looking for a maid and butler to help at a dinner party she is holding that night. Ollie tells the receptionist they can fill the post and to leave it to them. They arrive and Stan is dressed in drag, pretending to be the maid "Agnes".

Actors

Stan Laurel

(Stan)
Oliver Hardy

(Ollie)
Wilfred Lucas

(Dean Williams)
James Finlayson

(Baldy Vandevere (uncredited))
Anita Garvin

(Mrs. Vandevere (uncredited))
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