History Film / SonsOfTheDesert

''Sons of the Desert'' is a 1933 film starring [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]]. It was directed by William A. Seiter.

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Charley Chase, veteran of short comedies going back to the silent days, has a supporting role as an obnoxious conventioneer.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: The wives see Stan and Ollie in a newsreel, thus realizing that they did not go to Honolulu. They then decide to see if their husbands confess. Eventually Stan does, and is pampered with cigarettes and candy by Mrs. Laurel. Ollie, who stuck to the cover story, takes a beating from Mrs. Hardy.

* CatchPhrase: "Well here's another nice mess you've gotten us into."

* CatchPhrase: "Well here's another nice mess you've gotten us in to."

'''Mrs. Hardy''': That's just what I said! That you're not going to the mountains, that you're going- that you're going to the ''mountains!''

'''Mrs. Hardy''': That's just what I said! That you're not going to the mountains, that you're going...that you're going to the ''mountains!''

* {{Blackmail}}: When Stan wavers about sticking to the cover story, Ollie threatens to reveal that Stan smoked a cigarette at the convention.

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Distraught over the notion that their husbands might have perished at sea, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Laurel go to the cinema to distract themselves while they wait for the rescue ships with the survivors to arrive the next day. This fails, as the first thing that comes up at the feature is a newsreel of the Sons of the Desert convention, causing Mrs. Hardy to sob with guilt over not having let Oliver go. After a few seconds, however, [[MoodWhiplash they spot two familiar faces in the convention crowd...]]

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Distraught over the notion that their husbands might have perished at sea, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Laurel go to the cinema to distract themselves while they wait for the rescue ships with the survivors to arrive the next day. This fails, as the first thing that comes up at the feature is a newsreel of the Sons of the Desert convention, causing Mrs. Hardy to sob with guilt over not having let Oliver go. After a few seconds, however, they spot two familiar faces in the convention crowd...

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Distraught over the notion that their husbands might have perished at sea, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Laurel go to the cinema to distract themselves while they wait for the rescue ships with the survivors to arrive the next day. Of course, the first thing that comes up at the feature is a newsreel of the Sons of the Desert convention, causing Mrs. Hardy to sob with guilt over not having let Oliver go. After a few seconds, however, they spot two familiar faces in the convention crowd...

Stan and Ollie are neighbors and fellow members of the "Sons of the Desert" society. They very much want to go to the society's national convention in Chicago, but Ollie's shrewish wife has a previously scheduled vacation in the mountains and categorically refuses to let Ollie go. Stan and Ollie conduct a wacky scheme in which Ollie fakes an illness and convinces his wife that he needs a health cruise to Hawaii. It works, and the boys attend the convention--but they have difficulties on the way home.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Ollie asks Stan to get a doctor to help him fake a medical excuse. Stan calls a vet.

Charley Chase, veteran of short comedies going back to the silent days, has a supporting role as Charley.

The film concerns Stanley helping Oliver fake an illness in an effort to fool their shrewish wives into thinking Stanley is going to take Oliver to Hawaii for a cure, when really they plan to go to their "Sons of the Desert" convention, which Oliver's wife had forbid him to attend.

* {{Blackmail}}

* ChekhovsGun

* ContrivedCoincidence
* DelayedOhCrap: Stan

* SecretTestOfCharacter

* EmpathicEnvironment

''Sons of the Desert'' is a 1933 film starring [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]].

'''Mrs. Hardy''': That's just what I said! That you're not going to the mountains, that you're going...that you're going to the 'mountains!''

''Sons of the Desert'' is a 1933 film starring [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]]. The film concerns Stanley helping Oliver fake an illness in an effort to fool their shrewish wives into thinking Stanley is going to take Oliver to Hawaii for a cure, when really they plan to go to their "Sons of the Desert" convention, which Oliver's wife had forbid him to attend.

'''Ollie:''' Get in bed. "Meticulous". Hmmph!