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H.M. Walker (dialogue)
Release Date:
16 April 1932 (USA)
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Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy decided to reorganize and resupervise their entire financial structure- so they took the $3.80 and went into business.
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Like the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs. full summary | add synopsis
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Piano
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Stairs
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Player Piano
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Professor
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Birthday Present
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Won Oscar.
Another 1 win
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Delivering A Piano With Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy
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(Complete credited cast) | Stan Laurel | ... | Stan |
 | Oliver Hardy | ... | Ollie |
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29 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The film was reportedly half-improvised and was made mostly as a contractual obligation between Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and Hal Roach.
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Continuity: When the wooden crate first falls in the fountain in the master shot, it is clearly empty because it is floating. When the camera cuts to a closer shot, it has clearly been weighted down and is not floating.
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Featured in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
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Soundtrack:
(I Wish I Was in) Dixie's Land
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A LAUREL & HARDY Comedy Short.
Stan & Ollie are hired to deliver a piano - to a home at the top of a monumental series of steps. During this task of Sisyphus, they encounter every kind of hindrance, from a savage nursery maid to outright police brutality - which is only prologue to the chaos that awaits them when they get THE MUSIC BOX to the top...
This little classic is generally regarded as the Boys' best film, and, indeed, it won the 1932 Oscar for Best Short Subject, their only Academy Award. This is slapstick of a very high level, that born of the utmost frustration, and they make it all look so easy. If only one of their films could be saved for posterity, to show future generations what Laurel & Hardy were all about, this would be it.
Highlight (besides the stairs): the Boys' little dance to `The Arkansas Traveler'. That's Charlie Hall as the postman & the one and only Billy Gilbert as the apoplectic Professor Schwarzenhoffen.