L&H Reviews: Duck Soup!

 Welcome back to The Laurel and Hardy Fan! Today, I would be reviewing 45 Minutes from Hollywood, but since Laurel and Hardy don't have any scenes together in it, I don't think, I won't. So, we're going to jump straight into Duck Soup, the first official Laurel and Hardy comedy starring the duo made at Hal Roach Studios. Here's a video:



 This is actually a really good movie!! No wonder I like Another Fine Mess! ( I was referring to how Another Fine Mess is a remake of Duck Soup.)
 Anyways, the plot of this is that Colonel Buckshot is a rich person and going away. Meanwhile, Laurel and Hardy are unemployed, and are getting chased by recruiters. They immediately run away to Colonel Buckshot's house, and act like Hardy is Colonel Buckshot and Laurel is a maid. 2 people come and see " Colonel Buckshot." But, the real Colonel Buckshot comes, and so does the recruiters, and, as you know, that won't end well.
 I'm not one to bore the audience with gags you've already seen, but there's one great gag that occurs when Laurel and Hardy are running away from the recruiters. Laurel and Hardy get on a bike, where Laurel remarks, " I've never been on a bike, before!" Hardy replies, " Me, either!" Then, they go down a huge hill and almost get crushed by buses.
 This film is pretty great,  better than The Lucky Dog, and we actually see Laurel and Hardy as a team that is working together, unlike The Lucky Dog. We also see Laurel's crying in this, which would later become one of Laurel's main characteristics.
 This film is definitely enjoyable, and I highly recommend it. Although I do not know who is in this movie besides Stan and Ollie, the supporting cast is great. They do a great job of acting it out, silent-style.
 It's interesting to note that this was a lost film for some 50 years until somebody found it, which is kind of sad because they were really missing out.
 I love the bike gag, but my favorite part has to be one of those freak endings that Stan loved; a hose Stan and Ollie is controlling goes wrong, and somebody ( either Stan or Ollie) is on top of the hose in a long-distance shot, looking worried.
 This was later reworked 3 years later into Another Fine Mess. This and Another Fine Mess are very similar, in terms of plot.
  It's weird how Ollie obviously didn't shave in this movie, and it seems like they were just automatically a team in this movie. I know that Leo McCarey formed the team, but did he just look at their films and go, " Hey, Hal Roach, we should put this Stan Laurel guy and this Oliver Hardy guy together and look at the results!"
 I know about the leg of lamb that Ollie cooked which caused him to break his arm which caused Laurel to fill in for him in a movie, but really-- this couldn't have formed a team, right. It was merely just a understudy helping an actor, right?? So, they couldn't just have instantly become a comedy team, as this film suggests. There was some testing out the chemistry between these two characters before they made the film, right?
 Well, I won't go in-detail about that, but you should really watch this movie and I rate it a 10 out of 10! It's wonderful, and you should really see it! That's it for today! See you tomorrow!