March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934): Laurel and H.Bo Peep makes eyes at Tom-Tom, the Piper’s Son and he gets in on the action too. As Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee, L&H tumble and bumble in the most celebrated way while trying to help Widow Peep and her daughter Little Bo Peep battle the nasty Barnaby, who holds the mortgage on the shoe they all live in together (get it, the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe?). The film was really a vehicle for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, whose massive popularity was catapulted further still by the release of this film in Fall 1934. On top of that, this was all heaped around a face that didn’t look a day over 25! Creepy…….īut these were mere window dressing for the deco grand guignol by producer Hal Roach. This holiday classic is perfect for the Christmas season.
LAUREL AND HARDY MOVIES MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS MOVIE
I don’t know, when she walked out with her gray finger waved, Goldie locked hair set underneath that tall prick-a-finger-you-die pointy black witches hat, heavy framed glasses sloped down on her nose and Salem witch trial collar wrapped ‘round her neck, I just didn’t get a good vibe. Based on the original Babes in Toyland, this movie is a dazzling spectacle of 6-foot wooden soldiers, Mother Goose characters and the beloved team of Laurel & Hardy. Second, and perhaps most surprising was Mother Goose. You know, the one who tied the virginal damsel in distress to the railroad? Henry Brandon, billed as his birth name Kleinbach here, would again play this Barnaby-like character in an Our Gang episode a few years down the road. Sam 80 Lynne, Sharon 193 Maggie and Jiggs 28 March of the Wooden Soldiers see. Recently it has become a bit controversial because some people had called some scenes and especially the march of the wooden soldiers anti-Semitic, I have watched this movie hundreds of times and I could not see it, if at all it is more of a. First, Silas Barnaby, the meanest man in Toyland, was a cross between Ebenezer Scrooge and the hated black clad villain in silent film melodramas. The Magic Behind the Movies 4 Laurel-Hardy Murder Case 48, 140, 146. Babes in Toyland aka March of the Wooden Soldiers That whole movie is filled with special effects. Behind the scenes of 'BABES IN TOYLAND' The production of the screen version of Victor Herbert's famous operetta, Babes in Toyland, which features Laurel and Hardy, taxed all the physical resources of the Hal Roach studio and, in addition, swamped several motion picture supply concerns with a deluge of orders for extra electrical equipment. But of all these weird and wonderful eccentrics two ‘humans’ were creepiest of all and perhaps that’s because they were real people. Originally entitled Babes in Toyland and based. Santa Clause even makes an appearance though he looks as if he made a stop at the North Pole Bar and Grill on his way in (make it a double Blitzen). DVD 1 (US, Canada.) Movie/TV Title: March of the Wooden Soldiers About this product. THEN there were the Boogeymen, Sasquatch wannabes who hooted and hollered while terrorizing Toyland. Set entirely in Toyland, bizarre almost grotesque looking costumes adorned inhabitants such as the Cat and the Fiddle, the Three Little Pigs and even a Mickey Mouse (almost) look-alike. To put it bluntly, that flick creeped me out! Much like The Wizard of Oz, March of the Wooden Soldiers (originally released as Babes in Toyland), featured many surreal looking characters and situations that fascinated as well as terrified this five year-old.īased on a Victor Herbert operetta from 1903, the film was a fantasy extravaganza without the use of the yet to be invented CGI. I must admit, however, that I did so with excited trepidation.
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