Sunday, April 26, 2015

Apr 25th  
Swiss Miss*  (U)                                            
(Manifest Theatre, Manningtree)

(US 1938)

Two mousetrap salesmen go to Switzerland at the hotel where a jealous composer is feuding with his beautiful singing star wife.
Sporadically charming Laurel and Hardy comedy with musical asides, quite lavishly presented but lacking a few fresh jokes, with rehashed gags from The Music Box and The Chimp evident, and like most of their other musical features, the plot only partly gives the Boys anything useful to do.

Written by: James Parrott, Felix Adler, Charles Nelson, from a story by Jean Negulesco, Charles Rogers.
Producer: Hal Roach.
Director: John G. Blystone.
Starring: Stam Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Della Lind (Greta Natzler), Walter Woolf King, Adia Kuznetzkoff, Eric Blore, Anita Garvin, Charles Gamora.
Photography: Norbert Brodine, Art Lloyd.
Music: Phil Charig.
Lyrics: Arthur Quenzer.


Preceded by:
You're Darn Tootin'**
(US 1929. 20m. bw. silent; Two street musicians are dismissed from an orchestra, then evicted, and set off a local riot of trouser-ripping.; w: H.M. Walker; d: Edgar Kennedy; s: Sran Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Otto Lederer.)

Night Owls**
(US 1930. 20m. bw; An inept policeman hires two equally inept burglars to to rob the police chief's house.; w: Leo McCarey; d: James Parrott; s: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, James Finlayson, Anders Randolph.)

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