Laurel And Hardy - The Classics - Way Out West / Sons Of The Desert / The Music Box [1937] | ![Laurel And Hardy - The Classics - Way Out West / Sons Of The Desert / The Music Box [1937]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NFX6PRVRL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: William A. Seiter, James Parrott
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch, Dorothy Christy
Studio: Vision Video Ltd.
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 3547
Format: Black & White, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 175
Discs: 1
UPC: 044006138930
EAN: 5024165842294
ASIN: B00004R79G
Theatrical Release Date: December 29, 1933
Release Date: October 18, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In Greek mythology, there is a cursed old King called Sisyphus who is punished in Hades by eternally having to push a heavy stone up a hill (as soon as he gets to the top, it comes rolling down). Sisyphus's closest relations in Hollywood are Stan and Ollie, whose punishment in The Music Box is delivering a piano to a house at the top of a seemingly interminable staircase. This Oscar-winning comedy short should be shown to anybody who doubts Laurel and Hardy's genius. It's one of their greatest films, as painful as it is funny to watch. Way Out West, their sole foray into cowboy country, benefits from their rousing rendition of "The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" (a song which made it into the British charts a few years ago) and some inspired villainy from James Finlayson, the Scottish actor who was frequently cast as Stan and Ollie's nemesis (here, he plays villainous bartender Mickey Finn). The plot is some hokum about Stan and Ollie's attempts to deliver deeds to a gold mine to the daughter of an old pal. What matters is the clowning--most of which is inspired. In Sons of the Desert, the duo play truant from their wives to attend a Masonic lodge convention, but don't get away with the deception. --Geoffrey Macnab
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Laurel And Hardy - The Classics - Way Out West / Sons Of The Desert / The Music Box October 9, 2007
Quite simply the cinema's greatest ever double act with 3 of there greatest ever films
Simply The Best. August 3, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
What can I say? Laurel and Hardy are the true kings of comedy. This video has, arguably, the three best films they ever made and is it quite simply genius. If you don't like L & H then don't buy this, if you do like them then why haven't you bought this already?He He He He, I think I might go and watch this again.
a must have classic film for anyone who loves comedy October 10, 2000
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
All 3 films are excellent, Way Out West was very funny as you follow their quest to get their hands on the deeds of a Gold Mine and the famous dance routine was great as was the their rendition of the famous The Blue Ridged Mountains of Virginia. Sons of the Dessert is a very creative and enjoyable film which has incredible twist and turns in the story, but it has to be Music Box - their Oscar winning film that is the ultimate comedy short of all time, it is a classic comedy sketch that everyone must see, the unbelievable antics they get up to as they attempt to deliver a piano to a house at the tip of a steel stoop of stairs... I was crying with laughter. If you only ever buy one of their films it should be this one!
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