
Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor. Soon they're out of a job, as well as their lodgings when the landlady finds out they've been fired. The boys try their luck at being street musicians, but the tiffs they get into with each other soon spread to passersby in general, until the street is filled with men pulling each other's pants off.... (Full plot summary below)
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Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor. Soon they're out of a job, as well as their lodgings when the landlady finds out they've been fired. The boys try their luck at being street musicians, but the tiffs they get into with each other soon spread to passersby in general, until the street is filled with men pulling each other's pants off.
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| User ReviewGreg WAn archetypal L&H short, if nowhere near as funny as its towering reputation would suggest. That rep rests on two specific sequences: the opening orchestra disaster (with Ollie on French horn and Stan on clarinet), which is certainly grander than much of what was to follow in the stars' work - apparently shot in an actual concert hall, in front of an uproarious audience - but proves a little underpowered in its business, reliant on Ollie getting his fingers repeatedly trampled on; and the final descent into mass shin-kicking and trouserlessness, which again is fairly basic business, but shows the advantages to be gained from running with a particular idea - and also serves as a persuasive image of how the comedians' brand of idiocy might just catch on. True, you could show this to anybody who'd never seen a Laurel & Hardy movie, and they'd grasp immediately where this pair were coming from - but there was more sophisticated work ahead of them. |