Laurel and Hardy have been partners since 1926, but Ollie doesn't have a nervous breakdown until working in a horn-testing plant drives him mad. Doctor James Finlayson recommends goat milk and an ocean voyage. Ollie refuses to go to sea. Stan suggests they rent a boat and keep it tied up at the dock. Ollie agrees, and things go along well until escaped murderer Richard Cramer casts them all adrift and threatens them with his gun.
The Boys continued in top form, but it was all about to end. They refused to sign another contract with Hal Roach, or perhaps it was the other way around, or they simply couldn't come to terms. Instead, about a year later, they signed with 20th Century-Fox. I know there are those who like the movies they made at Fox. I am not one of them. They lost cameraman Art Lloyd to the army, and suddenly they were old. Gone were the practiced relationships at Roach, where Stan could come up with something and they knew how to give it to him. Instead, they were dealing with big studios where they thought they knew how to make Laurel and Hardy comedies better than Stan and Ollie.
Well, you don't judge artists by their worst stuff, but by their best. No one made people laugh like Laurel & Hardy. Enjoy this movie and the others, features and shorts, they made for Hal Roach. We shall never look on their like again. Unless HATS OFF turns up.
The Boys continued in top form, but it was all about to end. They refused to sign another contract with Hal Roach, or perhaps it was the other way around, or they simply couldn't come to terms. Instead, about a year later, they signed with 20th Century-Fox. I know there are those who like the movies they made at Fox. I am not one of them. They lost cameraman Art Lloyd to the army, and suddenly they were old. Gone were the practiced relationships at Roach, where Stan could come up with something and they knew how to give it to him. Instead, they were dealing with big studios where they thought they knew how to make Laurel and Hardy comedies better than Stan and Ollie.
Well, you don't judge artists by their worst stuff, but by their best. No one made people laugh like Laurel & Hardy. Enjoy this movie and the others, features and shorts, they made for Hal Roach. We shall never look on their like again. Unless HATS OFF turns up.