Duck Soup

Duck Soup — Plot

Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.

• Release date
• March 13, 1927
• Runtime
• 17 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Fred Guiol

Duck Soup — Cast

Stan Laurel Hives Oliver Hardy Maltravers Madeline Hurlock Lady Tarbotham Bob Kortman Forest Ranger William Courtright Colonel Buckshot's Butler (uncredited) Charlie Hall Moving man (uncredited) James A. Marcus Colonel Buckshot (uncredited) William Austin Lord Tarbotham