Director: LEO McCAREY, assisted by Lewis R. Foster. Screenplay: Leo McCarey, Lewis R. Foster, Stan Laurel. Story: Leo McCarey. Titles: H.M. Walker. Photographed by George Stevens, assisted by Jack Roach. Film editor: Richard Currier. Standing sets made over and dressed by Ted Driscoll. Assistant director: Lloyd French. Producer: Hal Roach. Released with synchronized music and sound effects.
Copyright 5 March 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. U.S. release: 23 February 1929. 2 reels. 20 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: The famous Gainsborough painting, "Blue Boy", is reported stolen. Two stable workers assume that the missing "Blue Boy" is actually a horse of that name. In expectation of a $5,000 reward, they collar the horse and set out to return him to the painting's millionaire owner.
NOTES: Shooting from 21 November to 1 December 1928. Final movie appearance of Josephine Crowell, who never made a sound film. She died in 1932.
COMMENT: A really funny film which demonstrates not only the superb comic expertise of Laurel and Hardy, but the extremely deft way the comedians gradually manage the transition during the course of the film from slapstick misunderstandings of an ordinary or garden variety into the glorious realms of surrealistic humor. In their gifted hands, it all seems so natural, so completely realistic, one never suspects for a second that it's actually a sheer flight of fantasy. Having the advantage of cleverly established characters, the boys are free to concentrate on their timing. And as usual, they have it down to perfection.
Copyright 5 March 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. U.S. release: 23 February 1929. 2 reels. 20 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: The famous Gainsborough painting, "Blue Boy", is reported stolen. Two stable workers assume that the missing "Blue Boy" is actually a horse of that name. In expectation of a $5,000 reward, they collar the horse and set out to return him to the painting's millionaire owner.
NOTES: Shooting from 21 November to 1 December 1928. Final movie appearance of Josephine Crowell, who never made a sound film. She died in 1932.
COMMENT: A really funny film which demonstrates not only the superb comic expertise of Laurel and Hardy, but the extremely deft way the comedians gradually manage the transition during the course of the film from slapstick misunderstandings of an ordinary or garden variety into the glorious realms of surrealistic humor. In their gifted hands, it all seems so natural, so completely realistic, one never suspects for a second that it's actually a sheer flight of fantasy. Having the advantage of cleverly established characters, the boys are free to concentrate on their timing. And as usual, they have it down to perfection.