Late in their brilliant careers, Laurel and Hardy made this delightful comedy based on the premise that Laurel has been guarding his WW I trench for 20 years, because nobody ever told him to stop. Hardy discovers his old comrade on a return visit to the battlefield and brings him back
home to his wife with predictable, but awfully funny, results. Two of the greatest comic performers who ever lived, Laurel and Hardy easily made the transition from their silent classics to sound films, but, in most of the sound pictures, their material never equalled that of their great silents.
BLOCKHEADS is an exception and features a few sequences that are among the duo's best. Th...
Released:
1938
Rated:
NR
Length:
58 mins