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Oliver Hardy (left), Viola Richard and Stan Laurel.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Flying Elephants
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Hal Roach + [Frank Butler]
Cast: Stan Laurel [Little Twinkle Star], Oliver Hardy [Mighty Giant], James Finlayson [Saxophonus], Budd Fine [Iron Heart], Fay Lanphier [Iron Heart’s woman], Viola Richard [Blushing Rose], Leo Willis [a fisherman], Dorothy Coburn [the wrestling cavewoman], Tiny Sandford [the hulking caveman], Edna Marion [a cavewoman], John Northpole [a caveman], Shirley Palmer [a cavewoman], Arthur Stanley
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Hal Roach. Gag writer, Walter Lantz. Insert animation by Roy Seawright. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. Presented by Hal Roach. / © 2 September 1927 by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [LU24347]. Released 12 February 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working titles: Were Women Always Wild and Do Cavemen Marry? The production was shot in mid-May 1927, and shot on location in Moapa, Nevada. Butler directed retakes. / Silent film.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Animals: Elephants - Animation - Stone Age - USA: Nevada: Moapa
Listing updated: 11 December 2024.
References: Kerr-Silent p. 322; Skretvedt-Magic pp. 89-92, 434 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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