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THE LAUREL & HARDY MURDER CASE
U.S.A., 1932 3 reels
production company : Hal Roach
direction: James Parrott
CAST
Laurel and Hardy.
All comedians were expected, sooner or later, to make a "haunted house" film and Laurel and Hardy were no exceptions. However, they found many twists to add to the old plot, notably in a mild but effective satire on the "tough cop" tradition of the gangster films of the day and in one supreme piece of comic invention involving a bat. Laurel has plenty of scope for his frightened whimper and Hardy is kept busy with his "let-me-attend-to-this", a phrase that strikes a chill into the heart of the beholder like the first ominous rumble of an approaching earthquake.
THE MUSIC BOX
U.S.A., 1932 3 reels
production company: Hal Roach
direction: James Parrott photography i Walter Lundin
CAST
Laurel and Hardy.
"As is well known, Messrs. Laurel and Hardy are world martyrs. Their lives are spent in undertaking tasks of apparent simplicity but actually full of devastating snags. Usually they succeed in carrying them out to the desired conclusion, but not before everything for miles has been smashed, crumpled, and utterly destroyed. But through it all these amiable creatures, though undergoing adventures and hardships which make Ulysses look like a stay-at-home, stagger along with an invincible optimism in the ultimate charity of Providence. The pettishness of Oliver, and the tears of Stan, are but fleeting clouds over the sunshine, and in the end their bowlers remain battered but unbowed.
"The Music Box is a modern version of the legend of Sisyphus. A large packingcase containing a pianola has to be transported up an enormously long flight of steps and into an inconveniently situated house. Six times at least the summit is achieved and six times the packing case sails down the steps, sometimes in solitary grandeur, sometimes with Laurel and/or Hardy attached. Unseen goldfish pools ensnare them. Ropes break. Hats become mixed. Fuses explode. Fingers are pinched and noses flattened. The consignee's house is entirely destroyed and he in turn destroys the pianola.
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