Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released April 05, 1940
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Columbia
17 min. (Short Subject)
17 min. (Short Subject)
The mine payroll has been delivered at Plain Poole's train depot, and station attendants Shemp and Andy must sit on it overnight. There've been a lot of robberies in the area, and the boys' imaginations and paranoia run wild with every strange noise and bump in the night. Mistaking a couple local hunters (and the Sheriff) as the crooks, Andy and Shemp lead them on a car chase to the mine office, and inadvertantly deliver the payroll to the real robbers.
The chase sequence, which takes up a few minutes of the short's running time, is stock footage from an earlier Andy Clyde comedy, OLD SAWBONES (1935).
Avg. Rating: 
[7.89/10]
[7.89/10]
Andy Clyde
Andy
Shemp Howard
Shemp
Vernon Dent
Night watchman
Cy Schindell
Jake Lund, robber
Richard Fiske
Robber
Eddie Laughton
Robber
Bud Jamison
Sheriff
Lynton Brent
Hunter
Bert Young
2nd hunter
Charles Dorety
Truck driver
Stanley Brown
Buggy driver
Jules White
Producer
Jules White
Director
Ewart Adamson
Story and Screenplay
Benjamin Kline
Director of Photography
Mel Thorsen
Film Editor
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