The story of a man who turned the other cheek-and got punched in the nose.
I only felt like watching a silent short to talk about tonight, so I found one at random from a legendary comedy duo, but it's one which technically is appropriate for the holiday season. You see, Laurel & Hardy sell Christmas trees door to door (was that ever a thing?) in Southern California, to no success. They run into a grumpy balding mustached middle-aged man & because of circumstances, things escalate and both parties do increasingly destructive damage to both his house and their 1920's automobile.
The comedy is that the feud spirals out of control to an absurd degree due to someone really not wanting a Christmas tree and items accidentally getting stuck in his door. The three main players plus the rotund barrister of the law that shows up-played by Stanley Sandford of Modern Times fame & amusingly billing himself as Tiny Sandford here-all provide great physical humor with their body language, not to mention their facial expressions. It was a nice way to spend 20 minutes; co-director Leo McCarey of course later went on to direct legendary movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood such as An Affair to Remember, Love Story & Going My Way.
I only felt like watching a silent short to talk about tonight, so I found one at random from a legendary comedy duo, but it's one which technically is appropriate for the holiday season. You see, Laurel & Hardy sell Christmas trees door to door (was that ever a thing?) in Southern California, to no success. They run into a grumpy balding mustached middle-aged man & because of circumstances, things escalate and both parties do increasingly destructive damage to both his house and their 1920's automobile.
The comedy is that the feud spirals out of control to an absurd degree due to someone really not wanting a Christmas tree and items accidentally getting stuck in his door. The three main players plus the rotund barrister of the law that shows up-played by Stanley Sandford of Modern Times fame & amusingly billing himself as Tiny Sandford here-all provide great physical humor with their body language, not to mention their facial expressions. It was a nice way to spend 20 minutes; co-director Leo McCarey of course later went on to direct legendary movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood such as An Affair to Remember, Love Story & Going My Way.
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