Wild Poses

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Wild Poses (1933) is two-reel (twenty minute) short film in the Our Gang Little Rascals series. It was produced and directed by Robert F. McGowan for Hal Roach Studios and first released on October 28, 1933 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It features a brief cameo by Laurel & Hardy.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Trivia
4 Laurel and Hardy cameo
5 External links

[edit] Plot

The short features comedian Franklin Pangborn as Otto Phocus, a haughty photographer who attempts to take some family portraits of the uncooperative Treacy family. Just outside the photographer's studio, Spanky is told by his friends (among them Matthew "Stymie" Beard and Tommy Bond), that Phocus plans to "shoot" him; thinking the camera is a cannon. This leads Spanky to avoid having his picture taken, and his habit of punching Phocus in the face with regularity.

Phocus serves as Spanky's foil in other ways as well. He tries to get Spanky to pose with an exaggerated sweet smile on his face; when Spanky sees Phocus' ridiculous grimace he turns to his Dad and says, "Hey Pop, do you see what I see?" And later, when Spanky's friends have filled the rubber shutter bulb with water, and Phocus squeezes it, squirting Spanky's Dad with water, his Mom tells Spanky, "That's how they take watercolor pictures."

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[edit] Trivia

This is a sequel to the previous Our Gang short film Bedtime Worries.

[edit] Laurel and Hardy cameo

At the beginning of the film, a salesman is seen soliciting Otto Phocus' services throughout a residential neighborhood. At one home, he tells a housewife that she has "two of the most photogenic children" he has ever seen. The camera cuts to reveal the womans two children, portrayed in a brief cameo by Laurel and Hardy, dressed in baby clothes and using giant sets from their 1930 short Brats. Laurel and Hardy briefly fight over a baby bottle, until Laurel eye-pokes Hardy and emerges victorious as the scene transitions to set the main plot in motion.