The Battle of the Century
1927 · US
Directed by Clyde Bruckman
Laurel and Hardy, 1927: a fight manager insures his boxer and then tries to arrange an accident. The pie fight that follows — hundreds of pies, a city block — is the one everyone stole. Clyde Bruckman directed; the second reel was lost for decades and found in 2015. Two reels that invent a grammar of escalation. Stan is the boxer. Ollie is the man who thought insurance was a plan.
Comedy
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1927 · Source: DonaldPBorchersOG
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Cast
Principal players
Stan Laurel
Prize Fighter
Oliver Hardy
Manager
Dorothy Coburn
Pie Victim Boarding Auto (uncredited)
Lou Costello
Boxing Hall Extra (uncredited)
Anita Garvin
Slips on pie (uncredited)
Dick Gilbert
Sewer Worker (uncredited)
Charlie Hall
Pie Delivery Man (uncredited)
A
Al Hallett
Bit Part (uncredited)
J
Jack Hill
Ringside Spectator (uncredited)
Ham Kinsey
Ringside spectator (uncredited)
Sam Lufkin
Boxing referee (uncredited)
Eugene Pallette
Insurance agent (uncredited)
Lyle Tayo
Woman at window (uncredited)
Ellinor Vanderveer
Lady in car (uncredited)
Dorothea Wolbert
Warring pedestrian (uncredited)
Crew
George Stevens
cinematographer
Hal Roach
writer
