Apparently they liked it so much they just kept expanding it. (Turns out every man in the army is mooning over the same picture he is it’s Jean Harlow.) At 37 minutes it’s neither a short nor a feature.
It’s a take-off on Beau Geste, with Ollie going into the French Foreign Legion to forget a failed romance. Not one of their very best.īeau Hunks (1931) The opening credits list 3,897 Arabs, 1,944 Riffians, and 4 Native Swede Guilders. They think they have killed the drunken first mate, who falls into a vat of white paint and comes back to haunt them. They end up being the last ones Shanghaied, and have to avoid the crew’s vengeance. The Live Ghost (1934) A captain hires them to Shanghai sailors. Ollie was one of the all-time great laughers. Soon they are engaged in a very good “Tit for Tat” battle (see above). They get jolly drunk and are joined by their standard nemesis, a short, choleric, mean-spirited little man. What they don’t know as they pull up in their ‘30s RV (a box like a large packing crate on wheels) is that a bunch of moonshiners have dumped their hooch in the well. He advises a rest cure in the mountains, drinking plenty of water. Well, serves you right, you bonehead, for eating all that rich food! Says Dr. Then they can’t get it moving, so they put up the sail …and car, trailer, and boat are demolished. It has a few leaks, so naturally they fill it with water, and naturally Ollie gets soaked in every way it is possible to get soaked. They decide to buy a boat and catch their own fish. Towed in a Hole (1932) They run a business selling fresh fish. This time its with an angry grocer next to the electrical appliance shop the boys have just opened, and it’s a classic. There is no reason in the world why anyone would just stand there and take it … except that it’s funny that way, and that’s reason enough. All through these indignities the offended party just stands there and takes it, blood boiling, then takes his revenge.
Somebody does something nasty to somebody else: Dumps a bucket of water or paint over his head, pours molasses over him, makes him sit down on a crate of eggs, stuffs something awful down his pants. Tit For Tat (1935) The title could sum up some of the very best bits L&H ever did. Later, Stanley tries the same thing, loses his grip and the next scene rolls back like a window shade rolling up. There is a lovely bit of business whereby, when he is leaving a scene, he reaches up a grabs something at the edge of the frame and pulls a ‘wipe” across the screen, with the next scene already playing on it. Here he has lost the money that should have gone for rent, and has to find a scheme to get it back. For all his bluster he could be bossed around by anyone in the world except poor clueless Stanley, so it makes perfect sense that his wife, about a third his size, terrifies him.
And why not? Big as Ollie was, he had no real violence in him. Thicker Than Water (1935) The henpecked husband was a frequent theme. They are still as good as they ever were.
#Are laurel and hardy movies in public domain full
How we loved this mismatched set of goofs! A few days ago TMC had a full day of L&H shorts, and I TiVoed ten of them. The third leg of this public domain afternoon trilogy, and the best, was Laurel & Hardy two-reelers. In the1950s in my hometown of Nederland, Texas, we came home from school to sit down and watch ancient Z-grade westerns with Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson, and Our Gang comedies.
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