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As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarships to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarships to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarships to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.
Charlie Hall
- Student Hector
- (as Charles Hall)
Evelyn Barlow
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Louise Bates
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Harry Bernard
- Policeman Shot by Vandervere
- (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Tom Costello
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Richard Cramer
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaFor the ear wiggling that Stan does, he would be filmed with his ears as normal then they'd be held forward with putty or similar material and the camera restarted. The two sections would be joined together then copied and joined many times for repetition. Filmed in slow motion then projected at normal speed the ears would wave vigorously. This would be why Stan's face is fixed in one position for a relatively long time.
- GoofsWhen Stan and Ollie get out of a car and thank the driver for the lift, they are in front of the entrance for The Evening Globe, which has Art Deco trim around the main doors. They then ask the driver of a Water Dept. truck for a ride. When they sit on the back of the truck as the driver turns on the street-cleaning spray, the background has changed, and they are now in front of the Globe Pipe Shop, which is next to a grand building entrance with large, Ionic columns on either side of the doors.
- Quotes
Baldy Vandevere: [to Stan in drag] Agnus, will you please serve the salad - without any dressing.
Stan: [walks over to Ollie] What kind of a joint is this?
Ollie: What's the matter?
Stan: He wants me to serve the salad undressed.
Ollie: Well, if he wants the salad undressed, that's the way he'll have it. Go get the salad.
- Alternate versionsShortenedand reedited as "Alter Ego" for TV consumption in the 59m
- ConnectionsEdited into Dance of the Cookoos (1982)
- SoundtracksFor He's a Jolly Good Fellow
(uncredited)
Traditional
Sung a cappella by Oxford students
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The tragedy of this comedy is that it exposes the truth about Oxford University
In A Chump at Oxford the duo dream of gaining a good education as a means to escape from the string of dead end, boring jobs by which they have been consistently exploited for a measly pay cheque which no doubt gives them just enough money to 'get by' on.
Having only enough money to get by on means that the duo are denied the best education. Then by chance the duo inadvertently foil a bank robbery and are duly rewarded with that elitist education they were dreaming of, but otherwise couldn't afford from a grateful bank president.
For the duo to obtain this elitist education the grateful bank president sends them to Oxford University in England which is then exposed for its upper class haughtiness via Laural and Hardy's enrolment at this ancient medieval institute of higher education, which has been dominated for centuries by upper class nitwits who think an elitist education here is their right alone, because they have the correct breeding.
This means that those people such as Laural and Hardy are viewed by the traditional Oxford student with disdain, because they are among the common 'new rich' who have no breeding, and who have merely bought their way to Oxford with so called 'new money' which is viewed by them as vulgar. So, the traditional elitist students' endeavour to evict the common pair that is Laural and Hardy from Oxford by way of student pranks, which are in fact a form of bullying . However, it is because Laurel and Hardy may well have the brains, - but lack the education - that they actually win through by seeing how institutes of learning, such as Oxford University are ensuring that higher education remains in the hands of the ancient upper classes, and escape it by heading back to the USA!
Having only enough money to get by on means that the duo are denied the best education. Then by chance the duo inadvertently foil a bank robbery and are duly rewarded with that elitist education they were dreaming of, but otherwise couldn't afford from a grateful bank president.
For the duo to obtain this elitist education the grateful bank president sends them to Oxford University in England which is then exposed for its upper class haughtiness via Laural and Hardy's enrolment at this ancient medieval institute of higher education, which has been dominated for centuries by upper class nitwits who think an elitist education here is their right alone, because they have the correct breeding.
This means that those people such as Laural and Hardy are viewed by the traditional Oxford student with disdain, because they are among the common 'new rich' who have no breeding, and who have merely bought their way to Oxford with so called 'new money' which is viewed by them as vulgar. So, the traditional elitist students' endeavour to evict the common pair that is Laural and Hardy from Oxford by way of student pranks, which are in fact a form of bullying . However, it is because Laurel and Hardy may well have the brains, - but lack the education - that they actually win through by seeing how institutes of learning, such as Oxford University are ensuring that higher education remains in the hands of the ancient upper classes, and escape it by heading back to the USA!
- alexandra-25
- Feb 23, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
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