A Chump at Oxford Page #3

Synopsis: With Stan in drag, the boys get jobs as a butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandevere's. After that ends in disaster, they're reduced to sweeping streets, and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford for a proper education. There they become victims of student pranks, getting lost in the Maze and taking over the Dean's quarters as their own. But then a knock on the head gets Stan to believing he's the famed Lord Paddington, scholar and athlete extraordinaire. Suddenly erudite and supercilious, he retains Oliver as his valet, "Fatty."
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Alfred J. Goulding
Production: United Artists
 
IMDB:
7.4
APPROVED
Year:
1940
62 min
270 Views


- Yes.

- When you enter there,

you go to the right, then to the left,

then to the right again, then right again.

Then, after you've been to the right,

you keep going right until the left turn.

Then you go right again

until you find yourself left on the right side.

- Hmm.

- I know it sounds complicated

but if you keep to the right,

you can't go wrong.

Now, then, when you come to the exit

on the other side of the hedge,

you'll see a sign

pointing to the professor's lodge.

- Is that to the right or the left?

- My dear old thing, it makes no difference.

Now, let me get this straight,

we go to the left when we... after the...

I have the directions, Stanley,

clearly in my mind.

Thank you very much, we'll be right back.

- Yes. Goodbye!

- Cheerio! I'll be waiting.

- Goodbye!

- Goodbye! Goodbye!

- Goodbye!

- Cheerio! Toodle-oo!

- Gee, he sure is a swell guy.

- He certainly is.

- I knew it the minute I set eyes on him.

- You did?

One thing I pride myself on

is reading character.

- Is that so?

- Yeah.

No, no, no, to your left.

Now to your right.

Go left.

Now to the right.

Wait a minute.

All we're doing is going around in circles.

- You know what?

- What?

I think we must have taken

the wrong turning.

What do you mean, the wrong turning?

Maybe we went left instead of right.

Remember the fella said,

"First you turn to the right... "

All right. You go to the left, I'll go to the right.

Whoever finds the exit first,

comes back and gets the other one.

- That's a good idea.

- Now we're getting someplace.

What are we going to do about the trunk?

- Think we'd better leave it?

- Certainly not. We may never find it again.

I can't carry it, it's too heavy.

All right, I suppose it's up to me, as usual.

- I'm not as big as you are.

- Get it on my back.

I'm doing all I can to help you.

All right, slide it up.

Take it easy.

- Got it all right?

- It'll be all right when I get a grip on it.

- You want a grip on it?

- Yeah.

- There we are.

- Help me up.

Now, upsadaisy.

There we are.

All right.

- Don't forget to holler.

- I won't!

- Bye!

- Goodbye!

- You all right now? Goodbye!

- Goodbye!

Oh!

- Oh, Ollie!

- Where are you?

I'm here. Where are you?

- I'm here!

- How can you be here if I'm here?

Stan, I'm exactly where...

Will you come and find me?

I will as soon as I can find myself.

What do you think I am?

I can't be in two places at once.

- Here we are.

- Will you show me the exit?

- Here it is.

- Swell. Now get me out of here.

- Follow me, we'll take the short cut.

- All right.

- Don't lose me.

- I won't.

Hey, just a minute.

- What did you do with the suitcases?

- I put them on top of the trunk.

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Charley Rogers

Charley Rogers (15 January 1887 – 20 December 1956) was an English film actor, director and screenwriter, best known for his association with Laurel and Hardy. He appeared in 37 films between 1912 and 1954. He also directed 14 films between 1929 and 1936. He was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England and died in Los Angeles, California, USA, following injuries sustained in an automobile accident. more…

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