Scorching Sands (1923)
1923 · Silent film · 13 min · dir. Hal Roach
- Comedy
Synopsis
"Scorching Sands" is clearly not a P.C. Wren spoof. It was released a year before the novel "Beau Geste" was published and three years before the movie with Ronald Colman was produced. Instead, it's an overt parody of Ouida's "Under Two Flags." This novel had already been filmed several times by the time Stan Laurel spoofed it and audiences would have had no trouble recognizing the source of his parody. In "Scorching Sands," Laurel finds himself torn between a beautiful society lady and a…
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Details
- Director
- Hal Roach
- Released
- 1923-12-09
- Running time
- 13 minutes
Cast & crew
Hal Roach Director
Stan Laurel
James Finlayson
Katherine Grant
George Rowe
William Gillespie
Merta Sterling
Charles Stevenson
Mark Jones
