''Bonnie Scotland'' is a 1935 American film directed by James W. Horne and starring

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. It was produced by

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for

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. Although the film begins in Scotland, a large part of the action is set in

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Plot

After escaping from jail where they had "one more week to serve," Laurel and Hardy travel to

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as stowaways on a cattle boat, where Laurel (as "Stanley McLaurel") believes he is heir to his grandfather's fortune. As it turns out, Laurel has only been bequeathed a set of

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and a snuff container. Use of the latter causes Hardy, trying to demonstrate to Laurel the proper way to use snuff, to fly off an old bridge. His clothes are soaked. In the boarding house, Laurel swaps their overcoats for a large fish for dinner. In quick succession the fish "shrizzles" to about 1/10 its size, Hardy's pants are burnt and ruined, and an attempt to hide the still-hot stove results in the landlady throwing the two out and confiscating their luggage for non-payment of rent. Receiving an ad for a tailor's offer of a new suit, Laurel and Hardy accidentally go to the wrong floor and join a

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of the

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and travel to

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, where they frequently run afoul of their Sergeant Major (

Jimmy Finlayson James Henderson Finlayson (27 August 1887 – 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is known for his squinting, outraged ...

), and help their friend Alan ( William Janney) reunite with his love (and Laurel's cousin) Lorna McLaurel ( June Lang). Khan Mir Jutra is the local terrorist who is a grave danger to the regiment. Volunteers are sought for a dangerous decoy mission to his palace, while Colonel MacGregor leads a surprise attack from another direction. Finlayson "volunteers" Stan & Ollie, who remain blissfully ignorant of the danger until they are given pistols and ordered to commit suicide. Hardy instead shoots down a huge chandelier, and also leads their pursuers into a courtyard of beehives, which cause panic among the terrorists and their own arriving regiment.

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* * * * * 1935 films 1935 comedy films American black-and-white films Films directed by James W. Horne Films set in India Films set in Scotland Films set in the British Raj Laurel and Hardy (film series) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Films with screenplays by Charley Rogers 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{1930s-comedy-film-stub