A Bankrupt Honeymoon
	Director: Louis Seiler • Producer: William Fox • Story: Murray Roth • Supervising director: George E. Marshall • Cinematography: ? • Editor: ?
	07 February 1926
	Fox Film Company
	silent short
	2-reels

AVAILABLE ON DVD (click image for Amazon.de)

A newlywed couple (Harold Goodwin and Shirley Palmer) receive a bunch of gifts, including a puppy.  Shirley telephones her Harold, who lives across the street and he leaves his house.  He hails a taxi (driven by Oliver Hardy) and makes the short trip to her house (opposite).  The taxi waits for him to conclude his business and leaves the meter running.  When Harold staggers out of the house later on, he forgets to pay the taxi fare.  The taxi driver follows his passenger back into his home to get his money. From this point on, Hardy follows Harold all over town in pursuit of his fare, including going to the extreme of hiding in the man's bed!  The couple later check into a hotel.  Hardy follows them but gets ejected for starting a fight, after a case of mistaken identity; but he later beats up a detective, steals his badge and re-enters the hotel. A telegram arrives at the hotel for Harold but when the manager takes it to him and knocks on the door, Harold and his bride duck out the back and avoid paying the bill. Hardy picks up a customer who then rides in the taxi with the newlyweds, eats their lunch but also leaves a huge tip.  With the money, Hardy starts up a bus company where passengers are encouraged to eat while they ride.  It's a massive success, with passengers boarding the moving vehicle via any means they can - by wench, or plank from another bus.  Unfortunately, Hardy receives an unexpected blow to the head, knocking him out and the bus eventually crashes into a tree, after a beautiful scenic tour of downtown Los Angeles.

Facts •Filmed December 1925 in the Virgil Street/Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles. •Copyright January 24, 1926 (LP22335) by Fox Film Corporation. •The rare DVD print on the German 10-disc set is incomplete by half!  There is a Dutch release of the film available on DVD which is complete. Did you notice? •The couple are in room 110 in the hotel. •The transition between Babe Hardy driving a taxi and then a bus is not made clear, in my opinion. •On the bus, ham & eggs will cost you 40¢. •The stunt performed where the man falls from the plank which is stretched across the two double-decker buses and into the road is quite some drop and extremely brave. •The route in which the out-of-control bus travels in Los Angeles looks very similar to the same location as when Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy ride their bicycle down the hill in Duck Soup (1927).

	Harold Goodwin Harold Pembroke
	Shirley Palmer Shirley Lee
	Oliver Hardy Taxi driver
	Frank Beal Drunk on bus
	Harry Dunkinson Harold's lawyer
	Sidney Bracey Butler

UNIDENTIFIED Servant	UNIDENTIFIED Maid	UNIDENTIFIED Servant
UNIDENTIFIED Mistaken man in hotel	UNIDENTIFIED Hotel manager	UNIDENTIFIED Taxi passenger

During the finale of the film, Babe's out-of-control bus takes a scenic tour of Los Angeles. It looks very similar to the street where he and Stan Laurel ride the bicycle in DUCK SOUP (1927).

Acknowledgements: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271391/ (IMDb.com) 'Laurel OR Hardy' by Rob Stone (book) This page was last updated on: 07 February 2014