Putting Pants on Philip
Jim Dooley

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Putting Pants on Philip 1927

★★★★½

Rewatched 11 Oct 2023

PUTTNG PANTS ON PHILIP is another one of the Laurel and Hardy 2-reel silent films that I purchased in Standard 8mm early in my film collecting journey. I have watched it many, many times ... and I still laughed myself silly today when I watched it again!

Many comedies of the period (including some Laurel and Hardy comedies) derived humor from a male character forced to masquerade as a female. PUTTING PANTS ON PHILIP doesn't do that. Instead, it mines laughs from Philip (Laurel) wearing a traditional Scottish kilt as he visits his uncle (Hardy) in America. Unfortunately, wherever he goes, a man seen as "wearing a skirt" in public draws an immediate crowd ... and it is only enhanced by the fact that Philip is an impulsive womanizer.

The characters aren't The Boys, but I found them to be very funny. I think this was my 13th viewing, and I still laughed as much as I did the first time that I saw it. Special delights were the "crowd scenes" (especially Hardy's reactions to them), Philip's trauma in the tailor shop, and the delightful Dorothy Coburn as the attractive woman who is the object of Philip's obsession!

For me, PUTTING PANTS ON PHILIP isn't the funniest of the Laurel and Hardy silent shorts, but it is way up there. It was such a joy to see it again!

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