Lou agrees to what Bud says hypothetically and Bud berates Lou for agreeing to what he initially suggested. Example, Bud supposes Lou should board a hole in the wall in a restaurant they are at. Bud asks Lou about various situations, Lou innocently answers or agrees and Bud turns the innocent answer into Lou being clueless. It involves Bud and Lou sitting at a table just talking. However, there is one real classic moment in THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH even if it does use a few old routines. Some Abbott and Costello films have better individual scenes and don’t gel overall and some gel well but don’t have as many superior moments. So yeah, superior routine in HIT THE ICE, but structurally, THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH is the superior film without all the extra bells and whistles of the older films. Half of Bud’s reasoning for changing his mind so much seems forced compared to the more natural flow in HIT THE ICE and the overall energy levels were higher in the older film as well. It’s done competently here and is entertaining on its own merit, but compared to HIT THE ICE, nowhere near as good. The packing/unpacking bit from HIT THE ICE? If you said it’s here, you’re catching on to my theme. Mudder and fodder from IT AIN’T HAY? Also here. Remember the phone booth routine from KEEP ‘EM FLYING? It’s here.
Since we are now in the second half of the filmography, the structural superiority of straight plot and comedy is for the most part maintained, but also for the first time, it’s starting to feel like Bud and Lou are treading water a bit.Ī lot of routines from previous films show up in THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH. In the case of THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH they chose Eagle-Lion Studios to be the studio to distribute this film and Bud and Lou produced it themselves. The way their contract now was set up, they could make one film per year outside of Universal. Michel Polak and Mirjam Brilleman- 1 year old and 8 month old enemies of the state.Previously, whenever Bud and Lou made films outside of Universal they were made at MGM.RIP Vangelis Papathanassíou-AKA Vangelis.
Tinus Osendarp, medal winning Olympian and Nazi collaborator..However in 1939 having a horse mimicking Ollie and telling Stan “That’s another fine pickle you got me in” was a technical masterpiece.Įnding with one of my favourite scenes from ‘Way out West’
Nowadays having it seem like an animal is talking is not anyone gets excited about, it is even used in TV ads.
Recently it has become a bit controversial because some people had called some scenes and especially the march of the wooden soldiers anti-Semitic, I have watched this movie hundreds of times and I could not see it, if at all it is more of a warning of things to come. That whole movie is filled with special effects. In the movie Brat Stan and Ollie play themselves but also their sons and in several scenes the four are seen together.īabes in Toyland aka March of the Wooden Soldiers But it is only since recently I started to appreciate that some of their movies had very advanced special effects for their time, and those effect have also stood the test of time for more then 80 years. The humour in their films has remained fresh till today and they never dated. Ever since I was a kid I loved watching Laurel & Hardy movies and I believe I have them all in my collection.