Laurel and Hardy don’t exist, I fear, for folks who are very much younger than myself. And that’s a shame. Let’s watch what is perhaps their finest silent movie, Big Business (1929).
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Laurel and Hardy don’t exist, I fear, for folks who are very much younger than myself. And that’s a shame. Let’s watch what is perhaps their finest silent movie, Big Business (1929).
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I remember that closing scene well, with their heads superimposed over the skeleton bodies. Creeped me out, majorly! But I don’t recall seeing it way back in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Mom’s “skin you alive” quip was missing from the memory banks until you just mentioned it…
There will be another L&H silent short or two coming up. One of them I haven’t seen yet. The picture quality might be only so-so. Will know when it comes in the mail.
Synchronicity! Just the other day Tom and I came across a more recent O&H from the 40s. In it, Stan was mistaken for a famous Spanish bullfighter, who was wanted by the mob. It was a silly plot. Anway, the main thug kept threatening to “skin them both alive.” That should have triggered the bad flashback I had at the very end of the movie, when Stan and Ollie think they’ve given him the slip and he steps out of the closet, brandishing a big, nasty knife. Fade to … Stand and Ollie’s heads on skeletal bodies, and Ollie saying the expected, “Well, that’s ANOTHER find mess you’ve gotten us into!” Of course, Stan starts crying. This is the ONLY part of this particular movie I remember watching as a small child, probably in Fort. As you recall, I was terrified of skeletons, and the sight of these two friendly characters skinned alive gave me nightmares for weeks. Also, Mom used to threaten to “skin us alive and hang us out to dry.” I think her other threat back then was to “give us to the Indians.” With the Indian mounds so nearby, I took that threat seriously!