Sailors, Beware!

1927 film

September 25, 1927 (1927-09-25)

Running time

19' 51"CountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent film
English intertitlesBudgetAlternative Poster

Sailors, Beware! is a silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951.

Plot

An upstanding taxi driver unknowingly picks up a woman and her accomplice, disguised as a baby, who are revealed to be criminals. Upon their departure without payment and leaving the meter running, the driver, Stan, pursues them onto a ship where he uncovers their nefarious activities.^[1]

Cast

Stan Laurel as Chester Chaste, cabdriver
Oliver Hardy as Purser Cryder
Anita Garvin as Madame Ritz
Ed Brandenburg as Other cabdriver
Frank Brownlee as Captain Bull
Dorothy Coburn as Lady in an easy chair
Gustav Schaffrath as Roger/The baby
Connie Evans as Society lady
Barbara Pierce as Society lady
Viola Richard as Society lady
Tiny Sandford as Man in robe
Will Stanton as Baron Behr
May Wallace as Society lady
Charley Young as a Man boarding a boat
Lupe Vélez as Baroness Behr (uncredited)

References

^ "Laurel and Hardy in Sugar Daddies". Archived from the original on September 20, 2011. Retrieved August 13, 2012.

External links

Sailors, Beware! at IMDb
Sailors, Beware! at Rotten Tomatoes

Filmography of Laurel and Hardy

Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy

Short films

Silent	The Lucky Dog (1921) 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) Duck Soup (1927) Slipping Wives (1927) Love 'em and Weep (1927) Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) With Love and Hisses (1927) Sugar Daddies (1927) Sailors, Beware! (1927) The Second Hundred Years (1927) Hats Off (1927) Do Detectives Think? (1927) Putting Pants on Philip (1927) The Battle of the Century (1927) Leave 'Em Laughing (1928) Flying Elephants (1928) The Finishing Touch (1928) From Soup to Nuts (1928) You're Darn Tootin' (1928) Their Purple Moment (1928) Should Married Men Go Home? (1928) Early to Bed (1928) Two Tars (1928) Habeas Corpus (1928) We Faw Down (1928) Liberty (1929) Wrong Again (1929) That's My Wife (1929) Big Business (1929) Double Whoopee (1929) Bacon Grabbers (1929) Angora Love (1929)
Talking	Unaccustomed As We Are (1929) Berth Marks (1929) Men O' War (1929) Perfect Day (1929) They Go Boom (1929) The Hoose-Gow (1929) Night Owls (1930) Blotto (1930) Brats (1930) Below Zero (1930) Hog Wild (1930) The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) Another Fine Mess (1930) Be Big! (1931) Chickens Come Home (1931) Laughing Gravy (1931) Our Wife (1931) Come Clean (1931) One Good Turn (1931) Beau Hunks (1931) Helpmates (1932) Any Old Port! (1932) The Music Box (1932) The Chimp (1932) County Hospital (1932) Scram! (1932) Their First Mistake (1932) Towed in a Hole (1932) Twice Two (1933) Me and My Pal (1933) The Midnight Patrol (1933) Busy Bodies (1933) Dirty Work (1933) Oliver the Eighth (1934) Going Bye-Bye! (1934) Them Thar Hills (1934) The Live Ghost (1934) Tit for Tat (1935) The Fixer Uppers (1935) Thicker than Water (1935) Galaxy of Stars (1936 promotional)

Silent

The Lucky Dog (1921)
45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926)
Duck Soup (1927)
Slipping Wives (1927)
Love 'em and Weep (1927)
Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)
With Love and Hisses (1927)
Sugar Daddies (1927)
Sailors, Beware! (1927)
The Second Hundred Years (1927)
Hats Off (1927)
Do Detectives Think? (1927)
Putting Pants on Philip (1927)
The Battle of the Century (1927)
Leave 'Em Laughing (1928)
Flying Elephants (1928)
The Finishing Touch (1928)
From Soup to Nuts (1928)
You're Darn Tootin' (1928)
Their Purple Moment (1928)
Should Married Men Go Home? (1928)
Early to Bed (1928)
Two Tars (1928)
Habeas Corpus (1928)
We Faw Down (1928)
Liberty (1929)
Wrong Again (1929)
That's My Wife (1929)
Big Business (1929)
Double Whoopee (1929)
Bacon Grabbers (1929)
Angora Love (1929)

Talking

Unaccustomed As We Are (1929)
Berth Marks (1929)
Men O' War (1929)
Perfect Day (1929)
They Go Boom (1929)
The Hoose-Gow (1929)
Night Owls (1930)
Blotto (1930)
Brats (1930)
Below Zero (1930)
Hog Wild (1930)
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
Another Fine Mess (1930)
Be Big! (1931)
Chickens Come Home (1931)
Laughing Gravy (1931)
Our Wife (1931)
Come Clean (1931)
One Good Turn (1931)
Beau Hunks (1931)
Helpmates (1932)
Any Old Port! (1932)
The Music Box (1932)
The Chimp (1932)
County Hospital (1932)
Scram! (1932)
Their First Mistake (1932)
Towed in a Hole (1932)
Twice Two (1933)
Me and My Pal (1933)
The Midnight Patrol (1933)
Busy Bodies (1933)
Dirty Work (1933)
Oliver the Eighth (1934)
Going Bye-Bye! (1934)
Them Thar Hills (1934)
The Live Ghost (1934)
Tit for Tat (1935)
The Fixer Uppers (1935)
Thicker than Water (1935)
Galaxy of Stars (1936 promotional)

Feature films

Pardon Us (1931)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Fra Diavolo / The Devil's Brother / Bogus Bandits (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Babes in Toyland (1934)
Bonnie Scotland (1935)
The Bohemian Girl (1936)
Our Relations (1936)
Way Out West (1937)
Swiss Miss (1938)
Block-Heads (1938)
The Flying Deuces (1939)
A Chump at Oxford (1940)
Saps at Sea (1940)
Great Guns (1941)
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
Air Raid Wardens (1943)
Jitterbugs (1943)
The Dancing Masters (1943)
The Big Noise (1944)
Nothing But Trouble (1944)
The Bullfighters (1945)
Atoll K / Utopia (1951)

Combined filmography
Stan Laurel filmography
Oliver Hardy filmography
Laurel and Hardy (animated TV series)
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy (1999)
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Music
The Sons of the Desert

v t e Films directed by Fred Guiol
The Battling Orioles (1924) The Haunted Honeymoon (1925) Say It with Babies (1926) The Cow's Kimona (1926) Along Came Auntie (1926) Get 'Em Young (1926) 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) Two-Time Mama (1927) Duck Soup (1927) Slipping Wives (1927) Love 'em and Weep (1927) Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) With Love and Hisses (1927) Sugar Daddies (1927) Sailors, Beware! (1927) Do Detectives Think? (1927) Pass the Gravy (1928) Their Purple Moment (1928) What's Your Racket? (1934) The Rainmakers (1935) Silly Billies (1936) Mummy's Boys (1936) Tanks a Million (1941) Miss Polly (1941) Hay Foot (1942) Here Comes Trouble (1948) As You Were (1951) Mr. Walkie Talkie (1952)

Films directed by Fred Guiol