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Block-Heads (1938)
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19 August 1938 (USA)
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90 minutes of happiness and hi-jinks
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It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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Here's another fine mess they got themselves into (I mean that in a positive way).
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Stan Laurel | ... | Stan | |
| Oliver Hardy | ... | Ollie | |
| Patricia Ellis | ... | Mrs. 'Toots' Gilbert | |
| Minna Gombell | ... | Mrs. Hardy | |
| Billy Gilbert | ... | Mr. Gilbert | |
| James Finlayson | ... | Fin - Man on stairs | |
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| Zeffie Tilbury | ... | Dowager seated near stairs (scenes deleted) | |
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57 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Boom mic visible: When Mr. Gilbert is talking to the reporters about his hunting trip, you can see the shadow of the boom mic on the wall behind him.
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Remake of Soldier Man (1926)
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"Block-Heads" begins in WWI, where Stan and Ollie are in a platoon fighting in Europe. While Ollie and the rest of the group go into battle, Stan has to guard the post. You can tell that he's doing his job, because he continues doing it for twenty years after the war ends. After he returns to America, he and Ollie meet up again, and from there, they do their usual stuff. Probably the best scene was the football scene (I won't spoil it). But the wheelchair, temptress, garage door and kitchen all provide some laughs. They may play blockheads in the movie, but believe you me, Laurel and Hardy were comic geniuses. Gilligan and the Skipper were sort of a later version of them, and Chris Farley and David Spade were an even later version.