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Laurel And Hardy - A Haunting We Will Go [VHS] [1942]
 
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Laurel And Hardy - A Haunting We Will Go [VHS] [1942]

VHS ~ Stan Laurel
1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan, Don Costello, Elisha Cook Jr.
  • Directors: Alfred Werker
  • Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, PAL
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • VHS Release Date: 9 Feb 1989
  • Run Time: 61 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CJDZ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,730 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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    #3 in  Video > Classic Films > Actors > Laurel & Hardy
    #9 in  Video > Classic Films > Comedy > 1940s

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Laurel and Hardy agree to deliver a corpse to a distant city, but find they are actually helping to smuggle a wanted crook through the police lines. Then the casket gets mixed up with the props of Dante the Magician at a depot, and the boys become stooges for the magic man's stage show while trying to dodge the attentions of a gang of crooks.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars What Happened to the great laughs_, 26 Aug 2000
After a long career of winks and laughs a great decline ensues, as the vociferete explosion of forceful failures erupt in the wholesome everyday life of Laurel and Hardy. The dreary shuffel of laughs fond, could not last. Even the funniest pair ever, meet the end, in a comedy where the laughs are few and far apart. A collector should try and obtain this title, yet ths primitive film slips in the categorie of futile work without the Stan and Ollie charm of mingels of stupidity and elegance.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars For completists only: L & H mix uncomfortably with gangsters, 13 Mar 2000
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This 1942 feature might have fared better as a straight mystery or melodrama. There are a few laughs as the boys assist Dante the Magician with his stage performance, and film fans will recognize many familiar faces from the 1940s, but most Laurel & Hardy admirers will be disappointed by the team's unenthusiastic performances and the awkward script. The writers were unfamiliar with the "Stan and Ollie" characters, and it shows. Children may enjoy it, and collectors who have to have every Laurel & Hardy videotape may be interested, but don't make this your first Laurel & Hardy picture.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Difficult to summarise but certainly not as bad as I thought, 11 April 2005
By J. Black "hull-kr-forever" (U.K.) - See all my reviews
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Having recently purchased A Haunting We Will Go from Amazon and watched it for the first time ever, I feel that I have to disagree with the off-putting reviews about the film.

It's no classic but nevertheless, it is easy to see why this film did well at the box office when it was released in 1942. The plot is that Stan and Ollie become unwittingly embroiled into smuggling a wanted villain through State lines; along the way they become employees of Dante the Magician after he bails them out when the are unable to pay for their meal onboard the train.

The first ten minutes or of this film is vintage Laurel and Hardy and throughout, there are other fun moments interspersed between the gangster plotline - certainly it is Stan who uses the opportunity of the film's varied scenes to interject his comedy one liners (and ear wiggles!) to great effect, whilst Ollie's characterisation remains ever gullible (enough to be persuaded into purchasing the 'inflato' moneymaking machine for $50). Look out too for Ollie's moving speech about using the money generated from 'inflato' to help the needy. Working with Dante the Magician gives the boys the chance to utilise various props; Stan dumbfounds Ollie by transferring magically between two telephone booths and the boys also perform the Indian Rope trick.

Overall, I'd say that this film is worth purchasing if only for the curiosity value that it holds and strangely, like most Laurel and Hardy films, good or bad, A Haunting We Will Go appears to have stood the test of time very well indeed. Is this film really over 60 years old? The grainy video transfer is a downside but let's hope that if 20th Century Fox ever get round to releasing their Laurel and Hardy titles on DVD they invest time digitally remastering these films from the original negatives.

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