Nothing but Trouble

Nothing But Trouble is a 1944 Laurel and Hardy feature film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Sam Taylor Plot Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, butler and chef following in their ancestors' famous footsteps, can't find jobs in 1932. They embark for other countries, with no success, and return to America in 1944. Now they are mobbed by anxious employers in desperate need of servants. Social climber Elvira Hawkley is hosting a big formal dinner that evening, and spirits Stan and Ollie away. The guest of honor is the young exiled King Christopher of Orlandia, newly arrived in the city. Christopher is unaware that his uncle, Prince Saul, is planning to murder him and take over the throne. Stan and Ollie have forgotten to buy a steak for dinner, so they steal a steak from the local zoo -- unaware that the steak is really horsemeat. Christopher befriends Stan and Ollie, and tags along with them to the Hawkley mansion. Dinner is served while Christopher hides under the table, but the new servants can't cut the horsemeat steak, not even with a two-man saw! The dinner is ruined and the Hawkleys are embarrassed as Prince Saul takes his hurried leave.