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The Music Box

Name: The Music Box
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1932-04-16
Duration: 29 min
Rating: 7.5

★ 7,5 /10 (227 Votes)

1932 EN 29 min

Overview

The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.

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Release date

16/04/1932

Votes

227

Popularity

1.4

Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy decided to reorganize and resupervise their entire financial structure- so they took the $3.80 and went into business.

Genres

Comedy

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

29 min

Oliver Hardy

Ollie

Stan Laurel

Stan

Billy Gilbert

Professor von Schwarzenhoffen (uncredited)

William Gillespie

Piano Salesman (uncredited)

Charlie Hall

Postman (uncredited)

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Hazel Howell

Mrs. von Schwarzenhoffen (uncredited)

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Lilyan Irene

Nursemaid (uncredited)

Sam Lufkin

Policeman (uncredited)

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This is to me the finest Laurel and Hardy film ever made, not to mention one of the greatest comedies or movies ever made. Period.

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'Foundered in 1931', Laurel and Hardy decide that they have to recalibrate their extensive business empire, so armed with $3-odd, they go into the horse and cart-powered piano-delivering business. Now this is not an instrument that's going to be easy to carry on your back - even if you are Ollie, and as they attempt to get one into it's new Walnut Avenue home we just know that if it arrives at all, it's going to be as much use to music as fire guards are to chocolate! Half way up a staircase that wouldn't have looked out of place in a grand Italian palazzo, an altercation with a children's nur…

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