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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1430

Wrong Again

192919 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 19:11
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Leo McCarey · Public domain

Synopsis

Two stable hands hear of a reward for Blue Boy and deliver a horse to a wealthy collector. The collector is expecting a stolen painting, so his instructions produce increasingly absurd results inside the house.

Cast

Stan Laurel

Oliver Hardy

Dell Henderson

Josephine Crowell

William Gillespie

Fred Holmes

DirectorsLeo McCarey

Behind the scenes

The short was released with synchronized music and effects but without spoken dialogue. Its central confusion joins the name of a horse to Gainsborough's painting The Blue Boy.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Stan Laurel — Photo by Stax · Public domain
Oliver Hardy — Harry Warnecke, 1900 - 1984 · CC0
Dell Henderson — Fox Film Corporation; Exhibitors Herald (Aug. 1920) on the Internet Archive · Public domain
Josephine Crowell — Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research; detail from http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=105303 · Public domain
William Gillespie — George Jeske, Hal Roach; lordheath.com · Public domain

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