The Stolen Jools (1931)

Directed by

William C. McGann

Genre

comedy film, buddy film

Country

United States

Runtime

19 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A comedy short about a theft of jewels. Many famous movie stars appear as themselves or in character roles.

lightheartedwhimsicalfast-pacedplayfulstar-studdednostalgiccomedic

What happens

The Stolen Jools is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy short produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by film stars and featured players of the day. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures to raise funds for the National Vaudeville Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium. The UCLA Film and Television Archive entry for this film says—as do the credits—that the film was co-sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes to support the "fine work" of the NVA sanitarium. The film, being made for charity, has an unusually large cast of actors who volunteered to appear. Studios represented included Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO, MGM, Fox Film, and Hal Roach. For decades the film was unavailable for viewing, although at least one 35mm release print was known to survive in private hands. Home-movie distributor Blackhawk Films offered reprints to the collectors' market in the 1970s. Another print was found in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, under the British release title The Slippery Pearls. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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