- Actors: Mary Boland, Philip Merivale, Henry O'Neill, David Leland, John Warburton
- Directors: Cliff Clark, Sam Taylor
- Writers: Bradford Ropes, Margaret Gruen, Ray Golden, Robert Halff, Russell Rouse
- Producers: B.F. Zeidman
- Classification: U
- Studio: Warner
- VHS Release Date: 31 July 2000
- Run Time: 71 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CLEL
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 14,190 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A nice conclusion to a successful collaboration,
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This review is from: Nothing But Trouble (1944) [VHS] [1945] (VHS Tape)
If you ignore the awful later effort by a French director, this was Laurel & Hardy's last film. This is one of my favourites. There's all the usual mistakes, errors of judgement, being made to look silly by a young boy (this time a King!) and down-right ridiculous humour! Although Laurel and Hardy frequently bicker with each other, there are some films where this gets, perhaps, out of hand and ceases to be funny. That is not true of this film. It has a nice balance, a good story with a good plot and excellent continuity. Not at all a Fine Mess - anything but!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Watchable later non-Hal Roach effort,
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This review is from: Nothing But Trouble (1944) [VHS] [1945] (VHS Tape)
Most Laurel and Hardy fans know that the Boys left the nest and flew the coop artistically in 1940: after establishing themselves as the Kings Of Comedy for an independent company they decided to go for something bigger and better. Well, it sure was bigger. They signed with 20th Century Fox and MGM (who had distributed their pictures in the golden years) and expected to be able to expand their comedy with access to stages, props, etc., and to be able to have a strong voice in production. Ofcourse, they were used as B-picture "break even" attractions: name value would ensure recouping of production costs, which were presumeably minimal. In short, they were just another "low comedy" act for outfits that did not excel at old-time comedy anyway.Okay, you knew that. You might also have known that this MGM L & H is a cut above most of the others from that 1941 to 1945 period, as it lets Stan and Ollie take center stage. Yes, they are good-natured incompetents who somehow help the protagonist (David Leland as the boy King) fight the bad guys, but at least that comes near the end, and there's no impossibly corny subplot with young lovers to section off the gags. Ollie is a Chef with one specialty and Stan is his assistant whose specialty is to mess things up. There are some real laughs as they try to remove (what looks like) a steak from a lion's cage and to serve it to Mary Boland and guest. A scene where Stan and Ollie coach a kids' football game has the right look but no real payoff. Still, it serves to bond them to their new pal, Leland, who is mad over American football. More sentimental than funny, but a nice try. This quiet little film has a reasonable storyline, unlike most of their other '40s efforts which introduce characters who fall out of the story, and which insert gags apparently for nostalgia purposes only. The final scenes, involving Stan hanging out the kitchen window from a great height, and the serving of a tainted meal which gets misdirected at the evil Prince Saul, are a bit disturbing, however. Stan's cries for help sound too real, and poisoning is not something appropriate for comedy. Still, this one, along with "The Bullfighters", and parts of a few others, are worth watching if you are true fans.
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2.6 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews) 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Sad to see Laurel & Hardy in decline,
By Lawrance M. Bernabo - Published on Amazon.com
In this 1944 MGM comedy directed by Sam Taylor, Laurel & Hardy are the chef and butler who foil a plot by enemy agents to poison the young exiled King Christopher (David Leland). On the one hand "Nothing But Trouble" spends time developing the boy-king's growing love for the joys of common democracy, such as playing football. Then we have the comic sequences in which Laurel & Hardy wreck a dinner party, try to take a steak away from a hungry lion, and end up on the ledge of a skyscraper. Clearly the boys are getting too old for this kind of stuff. Not as bad as "The Big Noise," but too close for comfort. Watching this one will only make you feel sad and not in a good way.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
not one of their best,
By myownme777 - Published on Amazon.com
this is one of the last films that laurel and hardy did and it makes me sad to give my favorite comedic duo only 3 stars.the thing i hate with their movies,as well as abbott and costello's,are that theres not enough of them in it.we always have to suffer through other peoples bad acting and bad singing,all of which always hamper how good these films deserved to be.of course this doesn't overshadow the comedic genius of laurel and hardy.this film is worthy for at least 2 scenes that i can think of.one is they forget to buy a steak for the dinner that they are making for their rich employer and instead decide to try to steal one from a lion.the other would have to be laurel and hardy trying to cut the steak that hardy just cooked.funny stuff indeed but these two deserved so much better.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun lightweight trifle,
By Anyechka - Published on Amazon.com
This movie is a bit shorter than I would've liked, and therefore doesn't get enough of a chance to develop beyond a lightweight trifle, but what is there is quite enjoyable. It's a little surprising at first to see how the boys have aged (though they were only in their fifties when this movie was made) and how therefore they're no longer able to be quite as physical and reckless as they were when younger, but there are still some quite good moments. Highlights include the football game, the dinner party at the house where Stan and Ollie are first working, retrieving the steak from the lion's cage to serve at dinner, and, in the scene towards the end (which had me in stitches) when they're hanging by the windowsill trying not to fall off of the building and Stan, overreacting as always, holding onto Ollie's legs for dear life, manages to make his friend's fall pants down. The subplot with the boy king is more than just a little stupid, but the scenes he has with the boys are quite touching, showing just how genuinely they cared about children and the less fortunate. It's not a masterpiece, but it is pretty fun for what it is.
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