Hog Wild (1930 film)

Like other Laurel and Hardy films of this period, Hog Wild was refilmed in both Spanish and French versions in which Laurel and Hardy spoke phonetically the respective languages; the part of Mrs. Hardy was recast with, respectively, Linda Loredo and Yola d'Avril. The French version was titled Pele Mele; the Spanish version Radio Mania. In the UK, the film was retitled Aerial Antics, as Hog Wild was an American idiomatic expression.^[1] The film is the first to feature a music score throughout. The scoring is experimental and one of the first to use pieces written by Leroy Shield. The Our Gang series was also beginning to use background music but opted to use orchestral scorings initially and began mixing several Shield tunes on the last episode of the 1929-30 season, A Tough Winter.

The short was computer-colorized in 1986.

Mr. Hardy's "house" was actually a set built on the then vacant lot of 4175 Madison Avenue in Culver City, California.^[2]

The last scenes were filmed on the campus of the University of Southern California. Stan makes a left turn from Exposition Boulevard onto University Avenue, where the streetcar tracks and USC's Mudd Hall of Philosophy, with its distinctive curved façade, are seen. (At the time of filming in 1930, University Avenue was open to public traffic and the University Line streetcar ran along its entire length from Hoover Street to Exposition Boulevard.^[3]) The final crash happens in front of the University Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library (on actual trolley tracks), at the intersection of Hoover Street and 34th Street in Los Angeles, California, at the North edge of the campus.^[4]

• Hog Wild at IMDb
• Hog Wild at the TCM Movie Database (archived version)
• Hog Wild at Rotten Tomatoes