The Music Box

Name: The Music Box
Director: James Parrott
Genre: Comedy, Family
Released: 1932
Duration: 28 min
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert, William Gillespie, Charlie Hall

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Comedy
Family

1932
James Parrott
28 mins
PG

Summary

Classic Oscar-winning comedy short from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Delivering a piano would appear to be a straightforward task for most people but not for Laurel and Hardy, who not only have to cope with each other but a huge flight of stairs as well.

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Review

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Andrew Collins

Perhaps the best-loved of all the Laurel and Hardy shorts (albeit a longish one, at just under 30 minutes), it won the pair an Oscar and rightly so. In this classic outing they must deliver a piano to an address at the top of a vast flight of steps, and the duo certainly deliver the comedy, with assorted variations on the theme of the instrument jangling down the stairs in its box, and some fine slapstick involving an ornamental pond. Even when they finally get it inside Professor von Schwarzenhoffen's (Billy Gilbert) house, the trouble isn't over. The result is a definitive (and partly improvised) display.

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7.9/10

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Cast

rolenameStanStan LaurelOllieOliver HardyProfessor Theodore von SchwarzenhoffenBilly GilbertPiano salesmanWilliam GillespiePostmanCharlie Hall

Crew

rolenameDirectorJames Parrott

Details

Theatrical distributor

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

English

Available on

video and DVD

Formats

Black and white