An absolute stone cold classic. The lady in the tight fitting dress getting pied in the bottom as she tries to get into her car is an absolute WAM classic moment, and stands comparison with anything shot since.
The lady who sits on a pie right at the end with her dress splayed out aound her, and clearly enjoys the experience of the mess pressing into her nether-regions, must surely be one of the all time greats of pie-sitting too, even if we can't actually see anything.
It's worth remembering that it's almost a miracle that the film survives. The first reel was found in the late 1970s, but that didn't contain the pie fight. Of the second reel, only three minutes (of about fifteen) was known to exist - and had been used endlessly in compilation films and documentaries. It wasn't until 2015 that someone discovered a copy of the second real - the one containing the most infamous pie fight in cinema history.
I'm no Laurel and Hardy fan, but that has to be one of the biggest finds in recent years. However, we're still in a position where around 80% of the films made in the silent era are lost for good.
Lots of new hits. Nothing as good as what we had. Flapper girls is involved more, gets a bit of collateral damage at 15:05. There's an elderly homemaker type who gets a pie. Anyway, judge for yourself.
I meant to post about this after I saw the story in USA Today. Needless to say the Chicago papers played up "Blues Brothers" and "Saturday Night Fever (Gene Siskel connection).
I took a lot of time for this filum to make the list because all of its parts were found and restored only a few years ago.
Look for Lou Costello in the audience at the fights, the first sequence in the movie.
webcamplayer said: It's worth remembering that it's almost a miracle that the film survives. The first reel was found in the late 1970s, but that didn't contain the pie fight. Of the second reel, only three minutes (of about fifteen) was known to exist - and had been used endlessly in compilation films and documentaries. It wasn't until 2015 that someone discovered a copy of the second real - the one containing the most infamous pie fight in cinema history.
I'm no Laurel and Hardy fan, but that has to be one of the biggest finds in recent years. However, we're still in a position where around 80% of the films made in the silent era are lost for good.
I didnt know that i wonder ways to help restore such works of art
boxster2 said: I meant to post about this after I saw the story in USA Today. Needless to say the Chicago papers played up "Blues Brothers" and "Saturday Night Fever (Gene Siskel connection).
I took a lot of time for this filum to make the list because all of its parts were found and restored only a few years ago.
Look for Lou Costello in the audience at the fights, the first sequence in the movie.
Stan Laurel was a briilant writer and director.
Not only did Laurel essentially write and set out all the films whilst Hardy played golf (a setup they both found adequate to be fair), he's also from my home town which is pretty much the only claim to any sort of fame the place has (so much so there's a statue of him here)
A L&H bio I always meant to check out from the library (now Covid restricted) pointed out that Stan was the head writer, regardless of who got the credits. Stan could subtly direct and made the listed director a "unit" director.
No wonder Hal Roach hated him.
Roach had L&H under separate contracts to manipulate his money makers; they finally went to Fox. Fox put them under total control, giving Stan no input. Management called them "the boys."
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