When Colonel Finn's Big Top Show goes bust, Stanley inherits the flea circus and Ollie gets “Ethel, the Human Chimpanzee.” Zoophilia is writ large as the boys smuggle the love-sick gorilla into Billy Gilbert's rooming house, unaware that Billy, listening through the walls, is pining for his errant wife, also named Ethel. —Scott MacQueen
35mm, b/w, 25 min. Director: James Parrott. Production: Hal Roach. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dialogue: H.M. Walker. Cinematography: Len Powers. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charles Gemora, Billy Gilbert, James Finlayson, Tiny Sanford.
Restored from a 35mm nitrate lavender picture master and a 35mm nitrate composite fine grain master. Laboratory services by The Stanford Theatre Film Laboratory, Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Inc. Special thanks to: Sonar Entertainment, the Library of Congress.
