Mandarin Mix-Up

{{Infobox film

| name = Mandarin Mix-Up

| image = Mandarin-Mixup-1924.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Scott Pembroke

| producer = Joe Rock

| writer = Tay Garnett

| starring = Stan Laurel

| cinematography =

| editing =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1924|08|30}}

| runtime = 20 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

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Mandarin Mix-Up is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by Scott Pembroke and starring Stan Laurel.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/MandarinMixUp1924.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Mandarin Mix-Up |access-date=2009-05-31|work=silentera.com}}

Plot

Stan is the new baby in the family and is shown in a high chair playing with a ball. His big brother is angry that the baby is throwing food at him and ties him into a laundry bag.

He is taken to a Chinese laundry and the story jumps twenty years. The family has raised him as their son and call him Sum Sap. He has a very long pigtail. He angers a Tong gangster and is in fear of his life. Sap falls in love with a Chinese girl and pursues her in slow motion. He falls into the Buddhist temple and angers the men. A battle begins between the tongs. Stan appears in a police uniform and the street battle stops.

With his uniform on he refuses to pay for a hot dog and is rude to the stall owner. One of the men draws a knife on him. He goes into a costume shop and disguises himself. The gang member tells him how he is going to slit Sum Sap's throat.

Whilst talking to a real policeman someone tries to kill him by dropping a vase on his head. After a few more things are dropped. Lili gives him a pistol and he fires it into the firework shop which explodes.

He marries his Chinese girlfriend Lili (Julie Leonard). Just then, her real parents and want to take her away. A bill poster is handed to him saying that Roger Cresus has left Sun Sap a million dollars because he loved him like a son.