Product: Laurel and Hardy Triple Feature
Rating: 5.0
Good movies. Poor picture quality.
I may have received a bootleg, pirated, copy. I have seen a different studio version of the film in this set titled "Bogus Bandits", which had dramatically better picture quality. In this set the faces in the films are washed-out, from making a copy, of a copy, several times with the faces fading, getting whiter on each copy.Better print of "Bogus Bandits" is the same movie with the different title: "Devil's Brother" available on Amazon in a two-pack with "Bonnie Scotland"."March of the Wooden Soldiers" is available with better picture quality individually on Amazon."Movie Struck" is available individually too, but I have not seen the individual print and so do not know if the picture quality is any better (it cannot be worse)."Bogus Bandits" or "The Devil's Brother" is set in the 1600's about a thief charming secrets out of a rich man's wife, and forcing Stan and Ollie to help him, at least to begin with. The film has some excellent singing, quaint sets, some good comedy, and a good ending that is cleverly set-up earlier in the film."March of the Wooden Soldiers" finds Stan and Ollie in Toyland saving the damsel in distress from the bad guy. Quaint sets and good comedy."Movie-struck" has a couple good songs by a young women. A little humor from Jack Haley the Tin-Man in the "Wizard of Oz". Promising but uneventful. Stan and Ollie are squeezed into a couple scenes, out of place in a story about others, and are shown arriving at the studio to do the scenes breaking believability. It held my attention, but in the end was a missed opportunity for having some good talent, a couple good ideas, and a story that could have done better.