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''Bacon Grabbers'' is a 1929 synchronized
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comedy film starring
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. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized organ musical score with sound effects.


Plot

Laurel and Hardy are employed as repossession men for the local sheriff's office. They are given the challenging task of repossessing a radio owned by Collis P. Kennedy, described as a tough customer, who has not paid any installments since 1921. Kennedy first chases Laurel and Hardy off his property with a toy bulldog. Then he barricades himself in his home, thwarting all efforts by the repo men to enter and recover the radio. When a wayward rifle shot by Kennedy knocks the top off a nearby fire hydrant and soaks a policeman, the cop investigates. Laurel and Hardy, with the officer's assistance, are finally permitted to enter Kennedy's house and take the radio. It is abandoned in the street, however, while Kennedy and the repo men exchange kicks. A steamroller from a construction site comes along and flattens the unattended radio. Moments later, Mrs. Kennedy arrives and happily tells her husband that she has paid the outstanding debt. The radio—now in pieces—is theirs. As Laurel and Hardy both laugh at Kennedy's misfortune, the steamroller returns and flattens their car too.


Cast


Notes

Jean Harlow, who was given star billing, appears on the screen as Mrs. Kennedy for only about 30 seconds at the end of the movie. The title ''Bacon Grabbers'' was 1920s slang for "
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." The movie was filmed at 2980 Haddington Drive and 10341 Bannockburn Drive in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles. In the beginning of the film, Laurel and Hardy are driving west on Venice Blvd and they make a hard right turn onto Bagley Avenue in front of 9349 Venice Blvd.


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* * * 1929 films 1929 comedy films 1929 short films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films American black-and-white films English-language comedy short films Films with screenplays by H. M. Walker Laurel and Hardy (film series) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films Short films directed by Lewis R. Foster Silent American comedy short films Surviving American silent films Synchronized sound films {{short-silent-comedy-film-stub