Phoney Cronies

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El Brendel, Monte Collins, and Tom Kennedy in Phoney Cronies (1942)

Three incompetents are hired to deliver a large crate (supposedly containing artifacts, but actually containing a live gangster) to a creepy old museum in the middle of the night, leading to... Read allThree incompetents are hired to deliver a large crate (supposedly containing artifacts, but actually containing a live gangster) to a creepy old museum in the middle of the night, leading to various slapstick mishaps.Three incompetents are hired to deliver a large crate (supposedly containing artifacts, but actually containing a live gangster) to a creepy old museum in the middle of the night, leading to various slapstick mishaps.

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5.4/10

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El Brendel

Oley

Tom Kennedy

Monte Collins

Homeowner

Dudley Dickerson

Petty Larsen, the Bookkeeper

Ned Glass

Crook
(uncredited)

George J. Lewis

Crook
(uncredited)

George Ovey

Night Watchman
(uncredited)

Director
- Harry Edwards
Writer
- Harry Edwards
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[first lines]
Tom: You've been our bookkeeper for give years and this is the first time our books have been uneven!
Petty Larsen, the Bookkeeper: Boss, a lot of people are having trouble right now balancing their books.
Tom: Petty, you said a mouthful.
Oley: Petty? Say, what is your last name?
Petty Larsen, the Bookkeeper: Larsen.
Oley: Larsen. Petty Larsen.
[chuckles]
Oley: That's a nice name.
[does a double take]
Oley: Hey, wait a minute!
Tom: Petty Larsen. Maybe that counts for the eight dollars and twenty cents that's missing.

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9/10

Fast-Paced and Very Funny

Swedish dialect comedian El Brendel had made a number of Columbia two-reelers from 1936-1945 and this one knocks it out of the park with slapstick comedy and the funny teaming of Brendel and the burly Tom Kennedy. They play movers for a transfer company who are hired to deliver a set of crates to a spooky museum after hours and wind up getting chased by crooks with swords. Dudley Dickerson also steals the show as their bookkeeper/third partner and Monte Collins as a fussy client.