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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
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H.M. Walker (writer)
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6 September 1930 (USA)
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Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy decided they needed a rest -- They had been out of work since 1921.
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It looks like the boys won't need to fish off the end of the pier to feed themselves any longer when Stanley's rich uncle Ebenezer Laurel dies...
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One of the more ludicrous Laurel & Hardys; much uproarious fun.
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(Complete credited cast) | Stan Laurel | ... | Stan |
 | Oliver Hardy | ... | Ollie |
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30 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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This is the first short film in which Oliver Hardy says to Stan Laurel, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
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Revealing mistakes: The killer's knife is obviously rubber.
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Edited into Noche de duendes (1930)
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This is another L & H short that deviates in some way from the general pattern of them; but this time, the central tennet is drastically different: the boys are implicated in a frankly absurd murder case. Dell Henderson's wonderfully creaking, slow turn, is a comic parody of horror movie 'housekeepers' and butlers before Universal horror really took off. I like the way an authority figure is sent up (as often in L & H); this time a bumbling, melodramatic detective, the actor hamming it up for all it was worth. There's barely a bone in this film's skeleton that isn't light and giddily brittle; only the early scene of Ollie musing on his friendship with Stan, the two of them sitting by the waterside, really seems like a typically L & H scene. And beautifully played and written it is too. It has that comic pathos that is entirely relinquished by the film from then on.
The remainder of this picture spirals off into the most obvious, overplayed silliness; but I loved it. Laurel and Hardy in a creaking, almost chuckling set, standing in for a haunted house; absurd, devilish do propagated by a leering, comatose housekeeper; predictable gags; a bat or two. Just bring it all to mind, and smile... give it a viewing some day, and I'm sure you'll be amused. "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" is a wonderfully enjoyable short; and a refreshing variant within their very consistent, fine work during this pre-feature length era.
Rating:- ****/*****