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Sometimes this little scene makes me laugh sometimes the beauty of it just shakes me. The boys are passing by the front of the saloon, hear some music (sung by the Avalon Boys), and just start dancing.
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The movie contains one of my favorite moments of cinema, and (as an abject lesson) it has nothing to do whatever with the plot. This charming western spoof has Stan and Olllie delivering the deed to a mine to a young girl ( Rosina Lawrence), only to be swindled out of it by an unscrupulous saloon keeper played by Jimmy Finlayson, and his cohort the dance hall girl Lola ( Sharon Lynn). There’s nothing like it in the work of previous silent masters.
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Then they attempt drive off in a car that has been cut in half by a buzz saw. This is masterful. The pair eventually fall to the earth crushing a shed containing their boss. This leads to a battle with boards and tools, culminating with Hardy getting sucked out a ventilator shaft and stuck in an opening 60 feet off the ground. It starts very slowly-pretty much all silent? Laurel accidentally goes over Hardy’s butt with a rasp. Laurel and Hardy are working in wood shop. This movie has perhaps the best comedy sequence ever. Directed by James Parrott, this movie won an Oscar for best short in 1932 - one of the few times in history an American comedy masterpiece has gotten the kind of recognition it deserves. They succeed in destroying the house, the piano, and the hope of any future business. The customers aren’t home and the door is locked - but that doesn’t stop Laurel and Hardy. And then when they reach the top, the heartbreaks don’t stop. The repeated obstacles, setbacks, and heartbreaks all the way up the hill. The beauty is how MUCH comedy they milk out of this simple premise, and how it builds and escalates, and continues to keep on giving all the way through. You constantly figure the concept has to be exhausted, but nope. As always in the best Laurel and hardy comedies, it builds and builds.
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Its virtues are primarily formal: it is delightfully well-constructed, in pacing and the organization and proliferation of gags. It’s a movie about two idiotic working stiffs moving a piano up the longest outdoor staircase in the world. Here’s what they have planned:Ĭonsidered by many to be the greatest comedy of all time. Tonight on TCM! A tremendous line-up of some of Laurel and Hardy’s best comedies (only one turkey in the bunch - see if you can guess which).