Berth Marks

Berth Marks is a 1929 short comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. Stan and Ollie are musicians, travelling by train to their next gig in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a very popular vaudeville performance location at the time .They spend most of the trip trying to change into pajamas and get comfortable in a cramped upper berth. Berth Marks was the second sound film released by Laurel & Hardy. A silent version was also made for cinemas at the time that were not equipped to show sound pictures. Action and dialogue scripts were written mid-April 1929, with filming April 20-27, 1929, and release by... Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on June 1, 1929. The train scenes, including outtakes unused in Berth Marks, were spliced into foreign-language versions of The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case the following year. These scenes were combined with new footage, utilizing actors fluent in the languages appropriate to the foreign-language versions. Laurel and Hardy's scenes from Berth Marks were overdubbed to match the required languages. Berth Marks was reissued in 1936 with new musical scoring added to introductory scenes.
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