Beau Hunks

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06/25/2016 This was hilarious--especially if you're a Jean Harlow fan. A really fun film for those of you who enjoy the comedic duo. See more 11/25/2013 A must see classic fueled by a love for Jean Harlow. The first twelve minutes are vintage schtick - and the rest is pretty good too. See more 08/20/2012 Loosely based on Beau Gest, this short from the finest comedy double act in cinema, has some extraordinarily daft moments. Not their finest hour, but a very good one indeed. See more Mike M 02/25/2011 Goes after its subject with a surprisingly straight face. A stern CO plays his part with exactly the same tremulous rage and melodrama you'd have probably got in a straight drama of the time; the scenes of marching in the desert - complete with convincing-looking sandstorm - are shot as though verite-style; and the overtones of life and death (it's the only L&H short I'm aware of where supporting characters actually perish) rather takes the edge off the funny, although its unit of shoeless, Allah-praising Riffs - undone, finally, by a barrelful of tacks - suggests an entirely innocent, Bash Street-level view of international conflict. Anyone who thought these things were solely concerned with finding new ways to set a fat man to falling over (and his cohort to impotent tears) should study the opening barrage of verbal gags involving "levity" and "synonym", or Stan's definition of a dromedary as "a thing that eats dates" - though, in one still-astonishing stunt, Ollie is propelled across his own parlour by a butt-mounted spring, landing atop the flowers on the piano at which he's just been singing his lovestruck heart out: the destruction, in this instance, providing as eloquent an image of crushed hopes as these shorts ever arrived at. See more 05/19/2010 Laurel and Hardy enlist in the Foreign Legion after Hardy's girlfriend breaks their engagment. They quickly realise that the Foreign Legion wasn't really a good idea... See more 04/03/2009 hillariously funny, one of Laurel & Hardy's best. See more Read all reviews

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