Call of the Cuckoo (1927)

Lead comedian in this Roach studios pre-sound short is Max Davidson who wants to move his family away from the annoying neighbours – Charley Chase, James Finlayson, Charlie Hall, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy – the latter two still sporting their prison haircuts from the recently completed The Second Hundred Years. It appears the neighbours are patients in a home for psychiatric patients and Max jumps at the offer to exchange properties, no questions asked, to get away but it looks like it was a major mistake when the flaws in his new home quickly start to show.