Air Raid Wardens

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Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel in Air Raid Wardens (1943)

Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.

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Stan Laurel

Stanley

Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

Edgar Kennedy

Joe Bledsoe

Jacqueline White

Peggy Parker

Stephen McNally

Dan Madison
(as Horace McNally)

Nella Walker

Millicent Norton

Donald Meek

Eustace Middling

Henry O'Neill

Rittenhause

Howard Freeman

J.P. Norton

Paul Stanton

Captain Biddle

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Charlie Beaugart
(as Robert Emmet O'Connor)

William Tannen

Joseph

Russell Hicks

Major Scanlon

Philip Van Zandt

Herman
(as Phil Van Zandt)

Frederick Worlock

Otto
(as Frederic Worlock)

Don Costello

Heydrich

Sam Ash

Air Raid Warden
(uncredited)

King Baggot

Townsman at Meeting
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Supposedly, Civil Defense representatives were present as advisors during the filming to ensure none of the gags in the movie would cast a negative light on the efficiency of their organization.

Goofs
The car they were driving as they drove off the road and hit a tree toward the end of the film had no tires or steel bands on the wooden spoke wheels of the car. It would have been very difficult to actually drive a car in that configuration.

Quotes
Oliver: [inside the open car trunk] This is a job for the detectives.
Stanley: Maybe we should turn 'em over to the FHA.
Oliver: Yeah. Shhh!
[they get out of the car trunk]
Stanley: This must be the hide-in.
Oliver: Hide-out! Come on.

Connections
Edited into Myra Breckinridge (1970)

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10/10

A Must See for all lovers of Stan and Babe!

This movie is a tome to all that is World War II, Real Patriotism, and of course our guys Laurel and Hardy........ The boys are grand, and whereas others may think that it was too "Deep" or not enough slapstick, I believe it shows the depth of skill that Stan and Ollie have. I must confess, I was a bit taken aback when seeing this the first time by Stanly's speech to the board of the Air Raid Wardens.... ,... between Stan's speech and Ollie's amazingly silent expressions,... I literally wept! I was simply stunned by the boys dramatic acting abilities... I recall Ollie as a bad guy in some silents, before Stan, and of course Stan also, but never had a clue as to the extent of their talent.

I have loved Stan and Ollie for years (I am actually a cousin of Rosina Lawrence..."mary roberts" in way out west) and I was in personal contact with John McCabe before his death... (I am from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and just a few miles from Mackinac Island where John resided).

I know of what I speak, and I say IF YOU ARE A STAN AND OLLIE FAN WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!