Pack Up Your Troubles

Filmed the same year as the first Laurel and Hardy feature PARDON US (1931), this follow-up was held from release until the following year while their money-making debut continued to rake in profits. For their second film the duo turned to an easy comic target--the Army. They play a couple of WW I recruits who experience nothing but trouble while trying to serve their country. They pal around with Dillaway, who makes them promise to look after his daughter, Lyn, if he should not return from the war. When Dillaway is killed, Laurel and Hardy heed his wish and take the darling 3-year-old away from her miscreant foster parents. They then begin a seemingly fruitless se...