Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0018713810564 Format: Color, NTSC Label: Good Times Video Manufacturer: Good Times Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Publisher: Good Times Video Release Date: May 15, 2001 Running Time: 78 minutes Sales Rank: 29647 Studio: Good Times Video Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 1934
Amazon.com: 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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Rating: - Christmas Classic
I remember watching this on TV as a child, and bought it to watch with my grandchildren - they loved it! Lauren & Hardy and other actors/comedians from the 1930's, 40's, and 50's should not be forgotten.
Rating: - Not like I remembered it
The adults found it very boring and the children ages 8 and 10 said it was just ok
Rating: - March of the Wooden Soldiers/Babes in Toyland
What can you say about this historic film...remember watching it when I was young during 50's in black and white...showed color version in VHS to my 2 children...I bought the DVD and showed it to them again this Christmas...some traditions never end...in color it is even better [colorized]!!! Originally titled as Babes in Toyland...
Rating: - March of the Wooden Soldiers
This year at Christmastime, my son asked me if I had remembered this film. I used to watch it as a child, and he had those memories also.
I bought the video for my grandsons to pass the tradition on. They thoroughly enjoyed this old classic.
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