@deanduncan63Saw #TheMusicBox. What new thing can you say about such super-famous films? Well, it’s kind of sloppy …
… And, for all of the millions of versions & releases that have circulated through the ages, it’s badly in need of a good restoration …
… That’s true of most of the films, in fact. C’mon, somebody!
#TheMusicBox. “He don’t want me! He wants the other monkey!”
#TheMusicBox. Stan swatting Billy Gilbert’s hat off is the best swatting someone’s hat off shot of any film that I know of in the whole world.
#TheMusicBox. Oliver Hardy as taken a very considerable portion of the physical punishment that has been meted out …
… in all of film history. This film adds very considerably, quite inspiringly to that quotient.
#TheMusicBox. It’s the endless flights of stairs that people remember, but the second half, dedicated to getting that piano into that house …
… is just as relentless, maddeningly repeated/ingeniously varied, inspiringly resourceful.
#TheMusicBox. They aggravate each other, a lot. And their world is constantly falling to pieces around them …
… All the more significant, then, that little dance that they do (just before yet another nearly definitive bout of destruction).