Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland

The most lavish feature built around Laurel and Hardy, 1934's March of the Wooden Soldiers is also the most bizarre. Opening unpromisingly with one of several mawkish numbers derived from Victor Herbert's musical Babes in Toyland, the antics of toyshop laborers Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee are worked into a scenario midway between Lewis Carroll and the Brothers Grimm. Nursery-rhyme characters come and go in a surreal fantasy, with the evil Mr. Barnaby threatening to evict Widow Peep from her shoe unless he receives her daughter Bo in marriage. The movie culminates in a full-scale invasion of Toyland by the yeti-ish Bogeymen and their defeat by the 100 six-foot wooden soldiers which Stan and Ollie have built by mistake. Henry Brandon gives a characterful performance, while 1930s child star Charlotte Henry is an appealing heroine. Directors Gus Meins and Charles R. Rogers milk the slapstick to an increasingly unnerving degree. Reputedly Hardy's favorite among the double act's features, March of the Wooden Soldiers emerges now as their most audacious screen appearance. --Richard Whitehouse

 
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1934
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Ollie Dee:
So far so good.

Stannie Dum:
It wasn't so far. We just came across the street.

Stannie Dum:
I've got a Christmas present for you.

Barnaby:
A Christmas gift in the middle of July?

Stannie Dum:
Well we always do our Christmas shopping early.

The Toy Maker:
What do you think of the wooden soldiers?

Santa Claus:
They're nice but they're not what I ordered. I ordered 600 soldiers one foot high.

Stannie Dum:
Oh I thought you said 100 soldiers six feet high.

Ollie Dee:
Goodbye Stannie.

Stannie Dum:
Well aren't I going with you?

Ollie Dee:
Why no. You've got to stay here with Barnaby. You're married to him.

Stannie Dum:
I don't want to stay here with him.

Ollie Dee:
Why not?

Stannie Dum:
I don't love him.

Barnaby:
Big bait catches big rat!

Ollie Dee:
Stannie's so upset he isn't even going to the wedding. You're upset aren't you Stannie?

Stannie Dum:
Upset? I'm housebroken!

Old King Cole:
I'm offering a 50,000 guineas reward for Barnaby's apprehension, dead or alive.

Stannie Dum:
Can't you make up your mind how you want him?

Stannie Dum:
You better come up dead or alive!

Ollie Dee:
How can he come up dead when he's alive?

Stannie Dum:
Let's drop a rock on him. That'll make him dead when he's alive.

Ollie Dee:
Now you're talkin'.

Ollie Dee:
Why should you worry? You and he are just like THAT.

Stannie Dum:
But that was before we were married.

Stannie Dum:
Her talking to Barnaby is a matter of pouring one ear into the other. Can't be done.

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