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House of Errors (1942)

House of Errors  was the second of the two "Harry Langdon-Charley Rogers" pairings. Weirdly enough, this one was actually made by a completely different studio. Double Trouble was done by Monogram while this one was done by PRC. I'm not entirely sure how this came about; the producers for both films were different, so it's not like there was much of a connection there. Whatever happened, House of Errors was the result. House of Errors  once again finds Harry and Charley playing Bert and Alf. This time, they're paperboys for a newspaper. After getting fired, they decide to try reporting themselves and act on a tip they overheard from their former boss. They go to the house of Hiram Randall (Richard Kipling), who is working on a brand new machine gun that promises to be revolutionary. They go undercover as his servants, only to come across another reporter (Ray Walker) and two men attempting to steal the gun (John Holland and Guy Kingsford). So, in some respects, th