We Faw Down (1928)

Laurel and Hardy silent film, also released as We Slip Up.

The boys sneak out to play poker with their friends, telling their shrewish wives that they have been called to attend a music hall performance by their boss. While the boys are out, the wives discover that the music hall has caught fire, and they rush there. On the way, they see their husbands scrambling out of a woman's bedroom. The boys don't see their wives, so the wives don't let on, and everyone goes home. The wives then quiz them about the turns at the entertainment, and the boys have to make up explanations of what took place.

Warming to his theme of relating what happens, Hardy takes a lamp shade and makes it into a makeshift grass skirt to show how the Hawaiian dancers performed.

The phrase referring to "fawing down" had become a craze at the time the film was made.

HF November 2004

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