Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Charles B. Middleton, Arthur Housman
You know what time it is: time to review the films we saw at this month's Saps at Sea tent meeting! Our Grand Sheik, John Field, screened three Laurel & Hardy shorts, all featuring Mae Busch, Stan and Babe, and a whole lot of laughs. Let's start off with the first film we watched.
THE PLOT: Stan and Ollie are going door-to-door selling Christmas cards when they meet a woman (Mae Busch) who fears that her husband Pierre (Charles B. Middleton) doesn't love her anymore. Always willing to lend a hand, the Boys offer to pose as lovers in an attempt to get Pierre jealous and to make him realize that he still loves her. So they pull the stunt and Pierre tells Ollie that he has to meet him at midnight for a gunfight. The Boys wind up at a bar and, after they decide to prank-call Pierre, Arthur Housman, playing a drunk as usual, stumbles in. The Boys get drunk as usual and wind up in the woman's bed. Ollie and Pierre get into a gunfight and Ollie plays dead and the Boys run away. The short ends with Ollie doing his trademark sigh from the back of a garbage truck.
THE REVIEW: I don't mean to fangirl, but OMG YOU GUYS STAN GETS KISSED!!!11!!!!!1!
Okay.
Now, this film is typical Laurel & Hardy. Not much to say, other than it was quite funny. Could use a bit more slapstick. BUT OMG GUYS STAN GETS KISSED SO 3.5 OUT OF 5 STARS!!!!1!!!!1!!!
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