Two-reel silent short — 20 mins.
Hal Roach Studios (distributed by MGM) / Dir. Lewis R. Foster
Production: February 18, 1929 — February 27, 1929
Release date: October 19, 1929
Survival/release status: Extant; available to watch online and on DVD.
Cast: Stan Laurel (Stan), Oliver Hardy (Oliver), Edgar Kennedy (Collis P. Kennedy), Jean Harlow (Mrs. Kennedy), Harry Bernard (Cop), Charlie Hall (Truck driver).
Summary: Stan and Ollie are two repo men tasked with using nearly means possible to extract an unpaid-for radio from an ornery customer (Edgar Kennedy); as soon as they do, the customer’s wife (Jean Harlow) comes home and proudly informs her husband that she’s paid off the radio.
Trivia:
- This was Harlow’s final role with Hal Roach; after completing her work on Bacon Grabbers, she asked for (and received) a release from her five-year contract. In the film, Harlow (who kept an item in her wardrobe for years if she loved it) wears the same hat that appears in The Unkissed Man.
Stills and ad art:
Harlow Heaven 