
Below Zero(1930)
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.


Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.

Stan Laurel
Stan

Oliver Hardy
Ollie

James Finlayson
Ringmaster

Billy Gilbert
Joe the Landlord

Charles Gemora
Ethel the Chimp (uncredited)

Dorothy Layton
Laid-off Circus Performer (uncredited)
The Chimp is a comedy film released in 1932 exploring themes of circus, gorilla, black and white, flea circus, short film. Directed by James Parrott, it stars Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.
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