45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926)
An early silent film with Laurel and Hardy, not yet working as a team. A California family have to go to Hollywood to settle a debt, and the dimwitted son, played by Glen Tryon, ends up with the mission. While there he goes on a bus tour to see the stars, and outside a bank a crowd has gathered to watch what seems to be filming.
When the gang run off to a waiting car, Tryon's character chases them, hoping to speak to a film star. However the police are shooting live ammunition at them, and we realise that this is a real bank robbery. The country boy is deceived, however, and the woman gang member runs with him and they eventually enter a hotel room to escape the police. By now we realise that the woman is in fact a man in drag.
Surprisingly, the robber in drag does not get named in the credits or in film databases.
HF June 2009
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