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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302172898
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6302172896
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: October 06, 1997
Running Time: 72 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: May 20, 1938
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Producer Hal Roach makes the regrettable error of shoehorning Laurel and Hardy into a romantic musical that looks like a Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy reject. Fortunately, "Swiss Miss" (1938) includes some of Stan and Ollie's most memorable scenes - highlighted by their surreal encounter with a gorilla on an Alpine suspension bridge. Skip the dreadful songs and you will have a good time.
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Stan(to Ollie)"I see a monkey."Ollie"Well it doesn't surprise me a bit.You drink any more brandy and you'll be seeing pink elephants."
Another one of my favourite L&H movies.Also another one of their films where Ollie sings.One of the few Hal Roach L&H features that don't include James Finlayson in the cast.My favourite scene is(you guessed it)where Stan and Ollie had to carry a piano across a wooden footbridge in the Swiss Alps,and encounter a Gorilla(who was played by actor Charles Gomora,the same actor who had played Ethel in the 1932 L&H short The Chimp).Another favourite scene is where the boys have to do dishes for the hotel chef.Ollie wipes numbers off the chalkboard with his bum.One other scene I like is where Stan accidently punctured a hole in the gas pipe under the cheese shop floor,causing flames to spring up under Ollie.
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I read alot of reviews about this one and was hesitant to buy it. It turned out not to be so bad, too my surprise it wasn't as much of a musical as the reviews led me to believe. It had musical material but Laurel & Hardy were the key elements to the film right throughout. Laurel & Hardy have some very funny scenes...one of the highlights was Stan getting drunk & trying to move a Piano over a bridge. Overall this is an ok piece of Laurel & Hardy film...better then the twin brother feature in "Our Relations" but nowhere near as good as "Way Out West".
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When Hal Roach began to try and create his own idea of big budget musicals? He felt that L&H should be placed into such a situation worthy of Louis B.Mayer's temple of Hollywood Musicals:MGM.
Hence!
The boys are sent to The Swiss Alps as unsuccessful moustrap salesmen.Who become involved in the conniving scheams
of a beautiful but wilful actress and singer in"Swiss Miss".
L&H try to provide comedy for this forgetable musical,but the film's plot centers more on the uneven relationship of Pompus stage musical showman and performer:
"Victor Albert"(Walter Wolf King) and his need to create and
produce a swiss opera without his wife "Anna"(Della Lind).
Ms.Lind's:"Anna"is not the type of person to take no
for an answer and she conspires to get a part in her husband's
show.So she eats a big meal,can't pay the bill and she is forced
to work at The hotel as a lowley maid.So her husband can ... Read More
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This is not the best L and H feature but some moments are unforgettable! If you are not familiar I reccomend Sons Of The Desert but when I saw Swiss Miss as a child I laughed for a week.
I agree with others that it is uneven and the boys don't get enough screen time, the romantic subplot is distracting ...
But watch Stanley with the Saint Bernard. It is a master shot . It is truly brilliant filmmaking. Sadly the rest of the feature does not support it. Still reccomended!
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