A Chump at Oxford (film)

A Chump at Oxford, directed by Alfred J. Goulding and released in 1940 by Metro--Goldwyn--Mayer, was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Hal Roach studios. Originally released as a featurette at forty minutes long, twenty minutes were later added for the British and European distribution.

Stan Laurel -- Stan / Lord Paddington
Oliver Hardy -- Ollie
Wilfred Lucas -- Dean Williams
Forbes Murray -- Banker
Frank Baker -- Dean's servant
Eddie Borden -- Student ghost
Gerald Rogers -- Student (Johnson)
Victor Kendall -- Student (Cecil)
Gerald Fielding -- Student (Brown)
Charlie Hall -- Student (Hector) (as Charles Hall)

Peter Cushing - Student (Jones)

Evelyn Barlow -- Bit Role
Louise Bates -- Bit Role
Harry Bernard -- Policeman
Stanley Blystone -- Policeman
Tom Costello -- Bit Role
Richard Cramer -- Bit Role
Jean De Briac -- Pierre
Herbert Evans -- Professor Crampton
James Finlayson -- Baldy Vandevere
Anita Garvin -- Mrs. Vandevere
Mildred Gaye -- Bit Role
Alec Harford -- Cab driver
Forrester Harvey -- Meredith
Jack Heasley -- Hodges
Jewel Jordan -- Bit Role
Robert Kent -- Bit Role
Rex Lease -- Bank Robber
Lois Lindsay -- Bit Role
Sam Lufkin -- Water wagon driver
George Magrill -- Tow--truck driver
James Millican -- Chauffeur
Edmund Mortimer -- Dinner Guest
Doris Morton -- Bit Role
Edgar Norton -- Professor Withersopoon
Vivien Oakland -- Receptionist
Jack Richardson -- Bit Role
Ronald R. Rondell -- Bit Role
Elmer Serrano -- Bit Role
Al Thompson -- Bit Role
Bobby Tracy -- Bit Role

Plot
Stan and Ollie are down to their last 6 bucks and thumb a lift to a job agency to find a work. A City Water Dept. truck driver offers them a lift then drenches them with water and leaves them behind. They arrive in a car that's been in a crash and is being towed. At the job agency a call comes from Mrs. Vandeveer looking for a maid and butler to help at a dinner party she is holding that night. Ollie tells the receptionist he can fill the post and to leave it to him. Stan and Ollie are going to take the job. They arrive and Stan is dressed in drag. Stan curtseys to Mrs. Vandeveer and his underwear rips loudly. As he walks off they are around his ankles.

At the dinner party Stan eats the nibbles he's supposed to be giving to the guests and tips the rest into Mrs. Vandeveers lap. Ollie calls the guests to the meal with a hand held xylophone. He says "there is everything From Soup To Nuts folks, come and get it". Stan is told to take the cocktails and instead of clearing them away he drinks them and becomes drunk. Mr. Vandeveer then tells Stan to "stir up the salad without dressing" so Stan serves the salad in his underwear. Seeing this Mr. Vandeveer takes a rifle and chases Stan and Ollie out of the house. Two gunshots are heard and Mr. Vandeveer returns followed by a policeman. The policeman says "why don't you be more careful, you almost blew my brains out".

Stan and Ollie become road sweeps and wonder why they are always in the gutter. They decided to get an education because in Stan's words "we're not iliterative enough". They are sat outside Finlayson Bonding Co. eating a packed lunch as a robbery is taking place inside. They inadvertently catch the robber and the bank manager offers them a reward. He enrols them at Oxford University in England and they set off by steamship.

When Stan and Ollie arrive at the University the undergraduate students decide to give them the "royal initiation". Which involves a number of pranks. They are sent off into a maze in order to get a pass to see the dean. They become lost. One of the students dresses as a ghost in order to frighten Stan and Ollie. Whilst they are sat on a bench the ghost's hand comes through the hedge and helps Stan to smoke his pipe and cigar.

They spend all night in the maze and exit the next morning. Johnson poses as the dean and gives Stan and Ollie the real deans quarters to live in. They make themselves at home only to be confronted by the dean. The prank is uncovered and Johnson is due to expelled. Before this happens the students decide to run Stan and Ollie out so they can't give evidence against Johnson. The boys are taken to their real quarters where Meredith the valet recognises Stan as Lord Paddington, the greatest athlete and scholar the University ever had. He says Stan lost his memory when the window fell on his head.

The students arrive and decide to throw Stan and Ollie out of the window. They decide to escape through the window and in doing so it falls on Stan's head. He becomes Lord Paddington once again. He becomes angry and his ears wiggle after which he throws all of the students out of the window. Stan doesn't remember Ollie any longer. He takes pity on Ollie and employs him as his personal valet. Stan calls Ollie by the nickname "fatty" and patronises him. Ollie becomes angry and quits the job. Stan hears students come to cheer him outside. He looks out of the window and it falls on him once again. He returns to his usual self. Stan and Ollie make up and go home. The film has a happy ending. Rather than the more usual unfortunate ending.

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