Like the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.
The film is a partial remake of their silent short "Hats Off" (1927), which was filmed at the same location and is today considered a lost film. Hats Off was itself remade by Edgar Kennedy in 1945 as It's Your Move, but utilizing a different staircase although located in the same vicinity where the "Music Box Steps" are in Silver Lake.
First of all, I love that the person who wrote the summary compared these guys to Sisyphus. That actually makes it sound like it has some deeper meaning, which it likely does not. Unless of course the meaning is to use your head and think things through. The comedy is mostly these guys failing and hurting themselves, but also their inability to see easy solutions (like pulling a piano up a balcony rather than just unlocking the door from the inside).
The film is a partial remake of their silent short "Hats Off" (1927), which was filmed at the same location and is today considered a lost film. Hats Off was itself remade by Edgar Kennedy in 1945 as It's Your Move, but utilizing a different staircase although located in the same vicinity where the "Music Box Steps" are in Silver Lake.
First of all, I love that the person who wrote the summary compared these guys to Sisyphus. That actually makes it sound like it has some deeper meaning, which it likely does not. Unless of course the meaning is to use your head and think things through. The comedy is mostly these guys failing and hurting themselves, but also their inability to see easy solutions (like pulling a piano up a balcony rather than just unlocking the door from the inside).