Them Thar Hills (1934)
Olly has gout? to much high living , too which Stan replies : "Well maybe we should move down into the basement" , obviously Olly's not impressed with this suggestion but does indeed like his idea of renting a caravan and going to 'the high multitude'. But wouldn't you know it some moonshiners have been arrested, not before they pour the said liquid down an old mountain well. Probably one of the best discs in the boxset is Laurel & Hardy Volume 2 - Someone's Ailing, a great triple bill County Hospital,Them Thar Hill and Tit For Tat, Interesting to note Tit for Tat was the only genuine sequel they ever made to a film, being a continuation of the relationship between Stan and Olly and Charlie Hall and Mae Busch a married couple they meet in Them Thar Hills. Its Charlie Hall's grumpiness and antagonism that pushes the stories along, he is very suspicious of his wife around other men especially as she's very flirtatious with Olly in both films. In fact this happens allot Olly is usually the romantic out of the two and seems to be forever falling in love or trying to please the women in his life, usually unsuccessfully. Them Thar Hills is wonderful little comedy filed with memorable scenes like when Stan and Olly are cleaning the caravan, and Stan continually interrupts Olly singing, with Stan adding his 'pom-pom' tune . There's Evil Dead 2 style axe scene as Stan is chopping firewood on the floor and nearly cleaves off Olly's toes in the process. Mae Busch is her usually brilliant self abit saucy abit mischievous but never a push over ,as she always gives as good as she gets when being bossed around by Charlie. And poor old Charlie Hall is by the time the film has finished pretty much butt of the jokes, the last scene where he has molasses and feathers poured over him makes him look like a giant chicken, priceless.
out of 5