Movie Description:
Perhaps no screen actors wereever able to laugh better "in character" thanwere Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. While several examples of this talentsurvive in their "talkies," their earliest on-screen laugh-fest emanated from their initial release of 1928, LEAVE `EM LAUGHING. Based upon the bedrock silentera principle of a simple situation leading to loads of sight gags, we open to find Stan with a late-night toothache, butwith Babe seeming to do most ofthe suffering. The next morning, he drags Stan to the dentist, a man who had apparently run a torture chamber in aprior lifetime. Patients are screaming,bodies are removed on stretchers, and the pliers-wielding Doctor has to literally chase down one customer whoresists his "painless" technique--all tothe increasing alarm ofStanley. After finallygetting into the chair, Babe winds up getting his tooth pulled,and in the resulting battle, the laughing gas gets turned on and The Boystake a heavy dose. Out onto the quiet streetsof Culver City and into theirModel "T" come our two buzzed heroes, who now find everythingterribly funny--particularly sothe rather emphatic instructions given to them by hystericaltraffic cop Edgar Kennedy. See all of these classic here as they were initially unspooled, with the original color tints restored to thefirst reel. The Boys had been an official team for only a few months, butthey obviously worked together so seamlessly that, for all appearances, itcould already have been a partnership ofdecades.
