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The Chimp (1932)

6.5 | May 21, 1932 (US) | Comedy | 00:25

Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.

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James Finlayson
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Billy Gilbert
Joe the Landlord
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Charles Gemora
Ethel the Chimp (uncredited)
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Dorothy Layton
Laid-off Circus Performer (uncredited)

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talisencrw
9 | Jun 25, 2016
This was a very enjoyable romp in which Laurel and Hardy drive a circus into bankruptcy, are paid a flea circus and a chimp instead of their wages, and are endangered by a jealous hotel owner who just happens to get their chimp confused with his errant wife of the same name. Essential comedy from the 30's.