I don't understand the occasional low ratings I've read by viewers of this great '20s silent film.
It's early vintage Laurel & Hardy with a very good demonstration of most aspects of their particular brand of physical humor and emotional reactions to each other and their situations.
Done in 1928 in the Hal Roach studio, a silent film historian said it's the beginning, in a sense--a preview, or first chapter, of what was to become a great series of longer comedy escapades.
One can only downgrade this film by judging it against Laurel & Hardy's other, later, longer and more fully developed films.
It's early vintage Laurel & Hardy with a very good demonstration of most aspects of their particular brand of physical humor and emotional reactions to each other and their situations.
Done in 1928 in the Hal Roach studio, a silent film historian said it's the beginning, in a sense--a preview, or first chapter, of what was to become a great series of longer comedy escapades.
One can only downgrade this film by judging it against Laurel & Hardy's other, later, longer and more fully developed films.