A-Haunting We Will Go (1942 film)

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".

A-Haunting We Will Go
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Directed byAlfred L. Werker
Written byLou Breslow
Stanley Rauh
Produced bySol M. Wurtzel
StarringStan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Dante the Magician
Sheila Ryan
John Shelton
CinematographyGlen MacWilliams
Edited byAlfred Day
Music byDavid Buttolph
Cyril J. Mockridge
Distributed by20th Century-Fox
Release date
  • August 7, 1942 (1942-08-07)
Running time
66:40
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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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]

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "A-Haunting We Will Go".
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