The only Laurel & Hardy film to win an Oscar contains along with 'The Battleship Potemkin' easily the most outstanding sequence ever staged on a flight of steps. (If I ever get to visit Hollywood those steps would be my number one priority to have my picture taken, number two being the Bates mansion from 'Psycho'.)
A remake of a tantalisingly lost film of 1927 shot on the very same steps called 'Hat's Off!' up which the boys originally lugged a washing machine. Since they were now making a talkie it was typically inspired of Laurel to substitute a piano to exploit the new-found miracle of sound by making their emit a cacophony of jangles every time it is disturbed.
Pure joy. It even includes one of their dances.
A remake of a tantalisingly lost film of 1927 shot on the very same steps called 'Hat's Off!' up which the boys originally lugged a washing machine. Since they were now making a talkie it was typically inspired of Laurel to substitute a piano to exploit the new-found miracle of sound by making their emit a cacophony of jangles every time it is disturbed.
Pure joy. It even includes one of their dances.