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A-Haunting We Will Go
A-Haunting We Will Go
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alfred L. Werker
Written by	Lou Breslow; Stanley Rauh
Produced by	Sol M. Wurtzel
Starring	Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy; Dante the Magician; Sheila Ryan ; John Shelton
Cinematography	Glen MacWilliams
Edited by	Alfred Day
Music by	David Buttolph; Cyril J. Mockridge
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	August 7, 1942
Running time	66:40
Country	United States
Language	English

A-Haunting We Will Go is a 1942 Laurel and Hardy feature film released by 20th Century-Fox and directed by Alfred L. Werker. The story is credited to Lou Breslow and Stanley Rauh.^[1] The title is a play on the song "A-Hunting We Will Go".

Plot edit

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are wandering vagabonds in Arizona countryside who are arrested for loitering and spend a night in jail. Upon release, they are instructed to leave town immediately due to lacking transportation. They agree to escort a coffin, containing a corpse, to Dayton, Ohio, believing it offers them free transport.

Unaware that their employers, Frank Lucas and Joe Morgan, are gangsters working for Darby Mason, a wanted criminal, Stan and Oliver load Mason's trunk onto a train, mistaking it for another trunk belonging to a magician named Dante. Along the journey, they fall victim to confidence men and are left penniless until Dante assists them financially.

Upon arrival in Dayton, confusion arises as the trunks are mixed up, leading to mistaken identities. Mason's trunk is sent to the theater where Dante performs, while Dante's trunk is delivered to a sanatorium. As events unfold, confusion ensues at the theater, with mistaken identities and suspicions mounting.

Investigator Steve Barnes, disguised as attorney Kilgore, reveals the inheritance search as a trap to capture Mason. Trapped in the theater's basement with his accomplices, Mason confesses to a murder. Meanwhile, Ollie continues his search for Stan, finding him apparently shrunken by magic.^[2]

Cast edit

Stan Laurel - Stanley
Oliver Hardy - Ollie
Harry August Jansen - Dante The Magician
Sheila Ryan - Margo
John Shelton - Tommy White
Don Costello - Doc Lake
Elisha Cook Jr. - Frank Lucas
Edward Gargan - Police Lt. Foster
Addison Richards - Attorney Malcolm Kilgore
George Lynn - Darby Mason
James Bush - Joe Morgan
Lou Lubin - Dixie Beeler
Robert Emmett Keane - Parker
Richard Lane - Phillips
Willie Best - Waiter
Wade Boteler - Police Announcer
Buz Buckley - young admirer
Barry Downing - young admirer
Mary Lou Harrington - young admirer
Terry Moore - young admirer
Leon Taylor - young admirer
Roland Carpenter - Dante's stage assistant
Violet Church - Dante's stage assistant
Mildred Gaye - Dante's stage assistant
Les Clark - Dante's stage assistant
Harry Benjamin Carter - bit role
Edgar Dearing - officer
Tom Dugan - motorist
Ralph Dunn - officer
Frank Faylen - railroad detective
Wilbur Mack - railroad passenger
Mantan Moreland - railroad porter
Eddy Waller - Wilcox, baggage man
Bud Geary - electrician
Paul Kruger - stage hand
Margaret Roach - showgirl
Walter Sande - expressman

References edit

^ American Film Institute (1971). The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States. University of California Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-520-21521-4. Retrieved October 1, 2010.
^ "A-Haunting We Will Go".