Swiss miss

United States, 1938

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Comic operetta in which Laurel and Hardy are mousetrap salesmen in Switzerland. They can’t pay their dinner bill and wind up working in the hotel kitchen to pay expenses. Their stay coincides with the local music festival and they have to contend with a gorilla, two opera singers, a St. Bernard dog and moving a piano up a narrow mountain trail. Based on the original story by Jean Negulesco and Charles Rogers.

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Credits

director

John G. Blystone

producer

Hal Roach

production company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Duration

01:10:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1938

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

304767

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q524323

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