"I'm not as dumb as you look", Stan tells Oliver, so if there was really something fruity going on (as they would have said in the 1930's), it was one filled with as many insults as the accusations made by Hardy's wife, Mae Busch, a shrewish wife who blames Laurel for Hardy neglecting her. Oliver adopts a baby to try to smooth things over, but he is presented with divorce papers on the day he gets the constantly crying toddler. Laurel and Hardy do seem like a quarreling couple at times much like Wheeler and Woolsey did in a few of their RKO features. There are a few funny moments (such as Oliver unknowingly feeding Laurel out if a bottle),but mainly this is more memorable by insinuations that even the writers were most likely unaware of. Such is the movie business!
Review of Their First Mistake
Their First Mistake
(1932)
Alienation of a wife's affections...to a man!
7 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers