A Chump at Oxford (1940)

As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarship to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.

Entertaining romp due mainly to the stars' expertise, otherwise a patchwork of sketches recycled from previous shorts.

Halliwell **: "Patchy but endearing Laurel and Hardy romp, starting with an irrelevant two reels about their playing butler and maid, but later including Stan's burlesque impersonation of Lord Paddington."

Maltin **1/2: "So-called feature is more like a series of barely related shorts: film is nearly half over before L & H even get to Oxford. Still quite funny, especially when they settle down in the Dean's quarters. Peter Cushing plays one of the boys' tormentors."