Other silent era LAUREL AND HARDY films available on home video. The foot massage is such a delightful bit of clowning because it’s about the relationship between the two. This short proves Laurel and Hardy could turn out a silent comedy as beautiful, timeless, thought-provoking and funny as anything Chaplin or Keaton ever made. The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, The Complete Collection, Volume One (1918-1929). I am not sure I prefer them to the best talkies, but the best of the silents - including Two Tars, Big Business, Liberty, and others - are very, very funny. Imagine Jules and Vincent discussing the implications of this scene in Pulp Fiction? Count me in as a big fan of the L&H silent films, as I'm sure you can tell in the Laurel & Hardy Fun House segment at. And Ollie sighs with satisfaction as Stan is being ministered to. All we can tell is that it takes Ollie a very enjoyable length of time before he’s alerted to the fact that Stan rather than Ollie is at the receiving end of a foot massage.
Whether Stan is appropriating Ollie’s pleasure or Ollie Stan’s is hard to tell. Clearly Stan and Ollie have reached a stage of co-dependency where they very literally do no know where one of them ends and the other begins. Built in 1925, this charming bungalow at 3120 Vera Avenue near Culver City appearing in the 1929 comedy Perfect Day is one of the most popular and easily recognizable of all Laurel & Hardy film locations. This the joke where Ollie thinks he is massaging his own foot and is in fact massaging Stan’s. This joke would later be repeated in Beau Hunks, and aspects of the routine would be recycled in a number of different contexts in a number of different films. More importantly, here we see, for first time, the foot massage joke. Starting their career as a duo in the silent film era, they later successfully transitioned to 'talkies'.
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The goat is just one more tiresome thing to be taken care of. Laurel and Hardy were a comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (18901965) and American Oliver Hardy (18921957). A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene. The goat is, of course, less of a destructive presence than Stan and Ollie themselves and the film can be regarded, to some extent as a remake of They Go Boom. The plot of this film is so unimportant that it’s not worth repeating.
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