![]() Harry and Willie fail to recognise Gorman. Snavely, hires Harry and Willie because he is impressed with their "stunt work". Toumanoff is furious with the interruption, but the head of the movie studio, Mr. They think they are under attack by Indians, but are saved by the cavalry. ![]() They do not realise how close they are to Los Angeles and stumble onto the set of the western film that Toumanoff happens to be directing. They play dice with the train guards and win their uniforms. They re-encounter the old man and wagon and con him into giving them $20 which they use to try pay to get on a freight train. And swap clothes, so they continue, dressed as hobos. A group of hobos find them sleeping by a campfire. Meanwhile, Harry and Willie are trying to catch up with Gorman across the country in hope of getting their money back. He is also travelling by train to California, with his girlfriend, Leota Van Cleef, who hopes to be a film star. Meanwhile, Gorman has adopted a new identity as the European film director Sergei Toumanoff. They get a second train loaded with cattle. They get a lift from an old man with a wagon and horses heading to California they then jump on a train but get off very prematurely. Leaving the studio Willie gets his foot trapped in a railway line with a train approaching and narrowly escapes injury. They realise that they have been swindled. It appears Gorman has sold the studio multiple times, but it is not even his studio, it is Edison's original studio. They are sold a deed to the West Orange Studio by a con man, Joe Gorman, on the pretext that he has two studios, one in Hollywood and one in New York, and the travel is getting too much. His friend Harry Pierce is waiting outside, he shows him an advert in a newspaper looking for people to invest $5,000 in a motion picture studio, exactly the amount of cash they have. He gets thrown out for being too demonstrative in the film. ![]() Willie Piper is in a nickelodeon watching a silent film: "Eliza and the Bloodhounds" a melodrama which ends with a mother and small child escaping in a snowstorm across a frozen river from a pack of hounds. However, in October 1954, the studio relented and agreed to use the "Keystone Kops" name. Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is a 1955 comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.Īfter the film was completed, Universal-International wanted to rename it Abbott and Costello in the Stunt Men, because they did not consider the " Keystone Kops" to be relevant anymore. ![]()
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