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Synopsis: So that he and Stan can sneak away to Chicago and attend the annual "Sons of the Desert" lodge convention, Ollie pretends to be sick, and gets a doctor (who turns out to be a veterinarian) to prescribe a long ocean voyage to Hawaii. Decked out in leis and strumming ukeleles, they return home only to learn that the ship supposedly carrying them has sunk. Their hastily- contrived tale of "ship-hiking" their way back cuts no ice with their wives, who've been at the movies watching a newsreel of the lodge's convention parade, starring... guess who?
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): William A. Seiter
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PASSED
Year:
1933
68 min
677 Views


- Stanley?

- What?

Stanley?

Honest confession is good for the soul.

Is Oliver telling the truth?

Go ahead and tell her.

Is he?

No! We went to the convention.

We didn't go to Honolulu at all!

He told me to tell you

we were sinking in that shipwreck.

We were up on the roof.

We slept in the attic.

Come on, Stanley.

(STANLEY WHIMPERS)

Come on, Stanley.

(STANLEY BLOWS IN GLASS)

How about you and me going to the mountains?

You're not moving out tonight are you, sugar?

Why don't you wait 'til tomorrow morning

so that we can talk it over?

See, Stanley? Honesty is the best policy.

(SOUND OF CRASHING PLATES)

(OLIVER SHOUTING)

Help, help, help!

(LOTTIE):
I'll show you, you Son of the Desert.

Go to a convention, will you? Ha, ha!

(DOORBELL RINGS)

Come in.

- What did she say?

- Never mind what she said. What did Betty say?

Betty said that honesty was the best politics.

Look.

(STANLEY COUGHS)

# Honolulu Baby

won't you close those eyes...

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Frank Craven

Frank Craven (24 August 1875 – 1 September 1945) was an American stage and film actor, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for originating the role of the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town. more…

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