March of the Wooden Soldiers

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Summary: Fun for the whole family, with Laurel & Hardy in top form.
Review: This timeless classic is the original film version of Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland." The entire family will enjoy the music, comedy, and thrills (but very small children may be frightened by the climax involving the monstrous "Bogeymen"). If you know the black-and-white version, this new edition will pleasantly surprise you. It's one of the very best "colorized" movies, with a wide range of storybook colors.

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Summary: Classic L&H plus the professionalism of Hal Roach.
Review: I think this movie was developed out of Hal Roach's "Babes in Toyland". This is vintage Laurel & Hardy. It will make you laugh and if you watched and enjoyed L&H in your youth, this will bring you back for a few good memories.

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Summary: Holiday Time Favorite!!!
Review: Kids will love this movie (and older kids at heart). Toymakers Laurel and Hardy goofed up Santa's order and made an army of 6 foot tall wooden soldiers that windup and walk, but wait they save Mother Goose Land from the dreaded Boogiemen. Other stars include: Bo Peep, 3 Little Pigs, Tom Thumb, etc., etc. (actors in costumes, not animated) I can't find it on TV anymore. I bought the video!! Wonderful & Funny for the whole family.

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Summary: Timeless Classic
Review: This is a movie that I grew up with, looked forward to seeing for the Xmas Holiday and sorely miss. I would like for my daughter to share my joy in watching this great classic. This is a don't miss movie for all ages.

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Summary: A wonderful Holiday treat
Review: Growing up, this movie would be shown faithfully on Thanksgiving Day to the enjoyment of the entire family. But, alas, the wholesome has given way to the likes of Attack of the Barnyard animals. This film is arguably Laurel and Hardy at their comic best.

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Summary: Great fun for the ENTIRE family
Review: The GREATEST comedy team in movie history,STAN LAUREL & OLIVER HARDY, star in this whimiscal, musicl fairy tale base on Vicotr Hubert's famed 1903 operetta 'BABES IN TOYLAND'. The boys portray 'STANNIE DUM & OLLIE DEE', hapless employees of Toyland's toy factory, who room in 'MOTHER PEEP'S'shoe. Faced with eviction by the evil 'SILAS BARNABY',our heros' plan to get the money from the 'TOYMASTER' goes awry. It seems that Santa Claus ordered 600 wooden soldiers at 1 foot high. But as fate would have it -STANNIE took the order and the end result is 100 wooden soldiers at 6 foot high. As with all the other films that i have reviewed, I also have this movie in my video library collection. I STRONGLY suggest and urge all buyers and viewers to order this timeless classic for their own video library collection.

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Summary: Stopped at the one yard line!!
Review: This review is for the Passport Video version of "March of the Wooden Soldiers".
This is a marvellous print in glorious black and white of this perennial favourite still seen on TV to this day.However for some time on TV we have been getting a terribly pastey colourized version which has nothing on this relatively clean black and white version;this is the way it was meant to be seen!
Both contrast and sound in this version are very good and the movie is as complete as one would hope.
And Passport Video would almost have had a touchdown with this movie....if it hadn't been stopped dead in its' tracks inexplicably at the one yard line!
The movie as I have said is quite complete with the original opening sequence,the musical numbers and others various scenes intact but Passport for some unfathomable reason changed the ending.The movie progresses along very well until the moment where the Boys attempt to give the Bogeymen a "parting shot" and the cannon reverses and gets Ollie in the behind instead.While Stan plucks away at the darts the scene suddenly "rolls up" from the bottom right corner to the top left.Music plays out to a dark screen.The end!??
The original ending has Stan plucking away until the scene fades onto a title card with Mother Goose and a "They lived happily ever after" on it.Music finishes.
What "creative" soul at Passport thought that they should fiddle with the original ending after going through almost the entire picture leaving things as they were?
Well here's another nice mess Passport's gotten themselves into.
What a shame because the film deserves a higher rating than I have given it but due to Passports' "liberties" I'm forced to downgrade it to no more than three at best.
If this ending is of no consequence to you then this version will suit you to a tee.But if you want this movie in its' original version,in good quality black and white and complete then I suggest you give this a pass.For there still is NO such version yet extant on DVD as of this writing.

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Summary: My favorite Stan and Ollie Movie
Review: When I first saw this,When I saw the pig tied and gagged,It angered me.Now,If I was a Superheroine,My partner in crimefighting and I along with our 3 sidekicks and 2 assistants can kick Barnaby's rear by martial arts, and put him in handcuffs. Kim Possible,Who I look up to and admire,Mom says I Idolize her and that's true,She's My Heroine,My 2nd Idol,My Role Model,My Angel of Truth and Justice and My Champion can kick Barnaby's rear all the way around the world,She can fly off with him on her jet pack and put him in jail! Way to go Kim! I want this DVD! I liked when the pig bit Barnaby when "Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" was playing.

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Summary: You guest it this is a great holiday movie
Review: Some like it colored and some don't. Ether way this based on a 1903 Victor Herbert operetta, film and is still fun to watch.

Now the basic plot is to keep Mother Peep's (Florence Roberts) shoe from being closed on by Silas Barnaby (Henry Brandon) when this fails Bo Peep has to marry Barnaby to keep the shoe. Now to keep Little Bo Peep from Barnaby. It involves Barnaby being tricked into marrying Stanley Dum in Bo Peep's place. Naturally Barnaby can not be fooled long and must have his revenge by letting lose the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.

Now where have we heard this story before? Can you say? The Poetic Edda ISBN: 0292764995

All in all it is a must to complete the holiday collection.


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Summary: "I Don't Love 'im!"
Review: There are two versions offered for sale at Amazon. The Koch Vision Entertainment version, despite the description in the technical details, is NOT COLORIZED. The Goodtimes Home Video version version IS colorized. Which you prefer is entirely up to you, but don't order the Koch Vision version if you want the movie in color. The Koch Vision version has an extended silent film extra of the first time Laurel and Hardy appeared together (NOT as a team, however). The extra is interesting, but (by today's standards anyhow) a little slow. The Goodtimes Entertainment (Colorized) version, although a few cents cheaper than the other version, is, in my opinion, a much "cleaner" print. Even with the color level turned down so it appears as the original B&W, the Goodtimes version is sharper and more distinct. March of the Wooden Soldiers, holds up pretty well.