Product Description: Originally entitled 'Babes in Toyland' and based on Victor Herbert's operetta this highly rated comedy/fantasy stars Laurel and Hardy as do-gooders trying to help the people of toyland fight an evil villain. A later version of this film was released in 1961 by Walt Disney.System Requirements:Run Time: 77 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 796019795845 Manufacturer No: 79584
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Rating: - A L&H Lovers Delight
While I wouldn't rate this as Laurel & Hardy's best feature, it certainly rates in the top-5 and is quite enjoyable for the whole family (though as my 5-year old daughter can attest, smaller children may find the bogeymen in the last part of the story just a little too scary without Mom and Dad nearby!). L&H have several enjoyable routines, Henry Brandon does a wonderful overacting job as the evil Silas Barnaby, and -- for the men reading this -- Charlotte Henry plays a very fetching Bo-Peep!
As other reviews have pointed out, this DVD release contains both the original black-and-white version and a colorized version. While I am one who is glad the practice in the 80s and early 90s of bastardizing B&W classics by colorization is largely ended, I have to admit that colorization improves this film given it's fantasy nature (imagine what "The Wizard of Oz" would have been like if it had been ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant!
I have forgotten just how brilliant at comedy Laurel and Hardy are, and just how marvelously funny this film is. The colorization is beautiful and the film itself has been restored to its full length and with the original opening and closing titles. If you've never seen Laurel and Hardy and want a perfect primer to their seemingly effortless chemistry and comic timing, Babes in Toyland (aka March of the Wooden Soldiers) is a good place to start.
Rating: - A B&W MOVIE IS LIKE A COLORING BOOK
There are many reasons movies are filmed in Black & White. Sometimes for budgetary reasons, other times the stars didn't want to show their "perfect" skin had flaws. The effects people were afraid their work would not look real. And yes, sometimes for artistic expression, but not for this movie. This movie was meant to be filmed in color, but budget was stretched and color technology wasn't perfected till four years later, ala The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938. There are two colorized versions of this movie and I suggest you see both. First came the Goodtimes version colorized by American Film Technologies. Then came Genius Entertainment's version colorized by Legend Films. The reason I say you should see them both is to see all the different color choices used by both "labs". A few examples are. In the G T version Stannie Dumm wears a green top and light blue tights. The L F version colored his top blue and his ... Read More
Rating: - Childhood Memories
When I was growing up, I remember this movie on one of the 3 channels we had in NY. It was nice to see this reissued with both the B/W and Color versions.
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