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A-Haunting We Will Go: Directed by Alfred L. Werker. With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dante, Sheila Ryan. Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
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- Adventure, Comedy
- Alfred L. Werker
- 1942-08-07
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. The title is a play on the song "A-Hunting We Will Go".
"A-Hunting We Will Go" is a popular folk song and nursery rhyme composed in 1777 by English composer Thomas Arne. Arne had composed the song for a 1777 production of The Beggar's Opera in London.
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It is Halloween and Daffy Duck's nephew (essentially a child-sized version of Daffy) goes trick-or-treating as a witch, in the same outfit that Bugs Bunny wore in Broom-Stick Bunny. He soon visits Witch Hazel's house. He runs home screaming after being scared by Witch Hazel's hideous face (however, Witch Hazel's skin is more yellow instead of green...
Director: Robert McKimsonStory: Larz Bourne, Bill Danch, Tedd PierceAnimation: Manny Perez, George Grandpre, Warren Batchelder, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Don TowsleyLayout: Dick UngThe cartoon reuses some animation of Witch Hazel from Broom-Stick Bunny and reuses Daffy as the flower-headed creature from Duck Amuck (both cartoons are directed by Chuck Jones).
Hobos Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) mistake an illusionist's (Dante the Magician) crate for a coffin hiding a gangster.
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- Alfred L. Werker
- Comedy
- Stan Laurel
The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. After the coffin gets switched with the one Dante the Magician uses in his act, his stage show gets more than usually popular.
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
