The Fixer Uppers

In The Fixer Uppers card salesman Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel learn that no good deed goes unpunished when Mae Clark wants them to make her husband jealous …

The Fixer Uppers (1935) starring Laurel and Hardy, Mae Busch, Charles Middleton

The Fixer Uppers – Oliver Hardy follows Stan Laurel’s suggestion, and tries to make a husband jealous. And succeeds all too well!

In The Fixer Uppers, Oliver Hardy takes advice from Stan Laurel, and gallantly tries to help a married woman (Mae Busch) win back her husband’s affections.

Mae Clark kissing Stan Laurel, to demonstrate how to make her husband jealous

Oliver Hardy checking his watch during the *very* long kiss in "The Fixer Uppers" — Mae Clark kissing Stan Laurel, to demonstrate how to make her husband jealous

But the plan backfires, as the husband challenges him to a duel to the death! Despite their attempts to explain, the hot-headed husband won’t listen, and challenges Oliver to a duel to the death!

Jealous husband Charles Middleton walks in on Oliver Hardy kissing his wife Mae Clark! — Jealous husband Charles Middleton walks in

Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Clark try to explain to jealous husband Charles Middleton - but he won't listen! — Jealous husband Charles Middleton walks in

How to avoid the duel?

Drowning their sorrows at a bar, Oliver is despondent. Until Stan makes the suggestion that Oliver just doesn’t show up! Lifting his spirits so much that he decides to call and taunt the husband! But then they make the mistake of having an inebrieted customer buy them drinks. So many that they drunken pair are taken to the address on the card that the police found in Oliver’s pocket. That the jealous husband gave him!

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy drowning their sorrows in "The Fixer Uppers" — Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy drowning their sorrows

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy taunting the jealous husband over the telephone — Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy drowning their sorrows

The Duel

Stan and Ollie decide to merely not show up, but with the help of an inebriated customer of theirs, they wind up in the last place on earth that they wanted to be … Just in time for the duel!

Oliver Hardy runs for his life *through* the door as Stan Laurel and Mae Busch watch — Oliver Hardy runs for his life *through* the door

Having hidden in a garbage can, Oliver Hardy is hauled away by the garbage man at the end of "The Fixer Uppers" — Oliver Hardy runs for his life *through* the door

The duel itself its a comic farce! Mae’s replaced the bullets with blanks, Oliver gets shot in the posterior anyway, and plays dead! The husband comes back with knives to carve up the corpse! So Oliver gets up and runs for his life through the door! Finally, having hidden in a garbage can, he’s hauled off by the garbage man, ending the short.

Mrs. Pierre Gustave: If my husband saw you kissing me, like he kissed me the first time we met, I’m sure that would make him jealous.
Oliver: Well how did he kiss you?
Mrs. Pierre Gustave: I’ll show you. [demonstrates on Stan] He had his arms around me, like that. And I put my arms around him, like this. We pressed tightly together. Then, his lips met mine. [long, long, long kiss, Ollie checks his watch, Stan passes out]
Now, when you hear my husband coming, that’s all you have to do.
[Stan moves in to Mrs. Gustave and gives her another kiss, she passes out]
Oliver: Now look what you’ve done!
Stanley: Well, she started it.

Cast of characters

Stan Laurel (Pack Up Your Troubles) … Stan
Oliver Hardy (Going Bye Bye!) … Ollie
Mae Busch (Oliver the Eighth) … Madame Pierre Gustave
Arthur Housman (The Live Ghost) … The Drunk
Charles Middleton (Flash Gordon – Spaceship to the Unknown) … Pierre Gustave

Additional Cast

Bobby Dunn (Bacon Grabbers) … Nose-Blowing Boarder
Dick Gilbert … Policeman
Jack Hill … Policeman
James C. Morton (We Want Our Mummy) … Policeman
Bob O’Connor … Waiter at Café des Artistes
Noah Young (Safety Last!) … Bartender at Café des Artistes

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