The Big Noise (1944) |
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| Director(s) | Malcolm St. Clair |
| Producer(s) | Sol M. Wurtzel |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, War |
Featured Cast of The Big Noise See More »
Stan Laurel
(as Stan)
Oliver Hardy
(as Ollie)
Veda Ann Borg
(as Mayme Charlton)
Robert Blake
(as Egbert Hartley)
Edgar Dearing
(as Motor Policeman)
Francis Ford
(as Train Station Attendan...)
Esther Howard
(as Aunt Sophie)
Philip Van Zandt
(as Dutchy Glassman)
The Big Noise Overview:
The Big Noise (1944) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and produced by Sol M. Wurtzel.
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The Big Noise Quotes:
Alva P. Hartley:
Here you are, Junior.
[Alva hands Egbert his allotment of pills]
Egbert: Gee, the neck as usual. I'm getting capsule-happy now.
[Alva hands Egbert his allotment of pills]
Egbert: Gee, the neck as usual. I'm getting capsule-happy now.
[after consuming his pills, Grandpa coughs violently]
Grandpa: I got a bone stuck in my throat.
Aunt Sophie: Don't bolt your food, Grandpa. (to Stan and Ollie) He always does that, especially when we have fish.
Grandpa: I got a bone stuck in my throat.
Aunt Sophie: Don't bolt your food, Grandpa. (to Stan and Ollie) He always does that, especially when we have fish.
[to Stan, as he pokes Ollie's bulging belly with a pistol]
Dutchy Glassman: If you don't tell me where the bomb is, I'll plug your friend here so full of holes he'll look a Swiss cheese!
See More Quotes from The Big NoiseDutchy Glassman: If you don't tell me where the bomb is, I'll plug your friend here so full of holes he'll look a Swiss cheese!
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One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
Working title was "Good Neighbors."
Billy Bletcher as Father Neptune, and Sarah Edwards are in studio records/casting call lists for this movie, but they did not appear or were not identifiable.
The train-berth scene is a reworking of Laurel & Hardy's short subject Berth Marks. Laurel requested that the setting be changed to a turbulent plane, but producer Sol Wurtzel refused to accommodate him. At the end of the scene, you can hear the camera crew laughing in the background.
Unlike their earlier work for Hal Roach, and because of the war, the duo decided not to include "destructive" scenes - like pies in the face, smashing props, and so forth. Where it was necessary, they actually enforced a policy of "one take" to minimizes the destruction.