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The Music Box (1932)


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Tall oaks From Little acorns grow.The boys have to deliver a piano,now that should be easy?
That's the house up there right on top of the stoop.Informs Charlie Hall as the postman.Ollie then repeats this to Stan,and they both look upwards to a rather high set of steep stairs going up to a rather grand looking house.There first obstacle is a rather cute looking nanny pushing a baby buggy,the duo happily oblige and let her pass,but as Ollie helps her with the buggy the piano slides back down the hill.This obviously amuses the nanny,so Stan gives her a kick up the backside, only to be punched in the face for his trouble,Ollie then bursts into laughter and get a milk bottle smashed over his head,violent these nannies.This leads to a rather funny scene where the nanny reports the boys to the police ,Policeman: He kicked you? Nursemaid: Yes, officer, right in the middle of my daily duty. So as the boys make there way back up the stairs with the piano yet again,they are beckoned from below by the policeman,Stan is sent to investigate.Which leads to another great line from the policeman when confronted by Stan,Policeman: I don't want you. I want that other monkey. Stan then repeats this to Ollie,who then does a double take realising he is the monkey the policeman was referring to,and of course as soon as Ollie leaves the piano it comes crashing down behind them.Stan then decides to challenge the policeman's authority for some reason and accuses him,Say listen, don't you think you're bounding over your step? Which then gets him hit over the head and poked in the stomach with a truncheon.So back up the stairs they go,and this time they are confronted by Billy Gilbert as Professor Theodore von Schwarzenhoffen, M.D., A.D., D.D.S., F.L.D., F-F-F-and-F,who calls the pair a couple of numbskulls and then gets his top hat knocked off by Stan,and it sails down the hill in the wind with the professor chasing it.This time the boys manage to get the piano to the house and nearly in the gold fish pond as well,and just as they ring the doorbell,Ollie is dragged down the stairs right to the very bottom.Eventually they manage to get it to the top,this time the postman informs them that all they had to do was follow the road and it would of brought them to the very same doorstep.So in what has to be the silliest scene ever,they takes the piano back down the stairs, back on the horse and cart and re-deliver it via the road.Of course no one is at home,so obviously they decide to use a block and tackle to lift the piano into the bedroom window and down the stairs of the house.This film genuinely makes me feel tired watching how Stan and Ollie exert so much energy into delivering that damn piano,it is also frustrating seeing how many times they get to the front door for it only to roll back down again.Its a classic,and pretty much a perfect film.
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