Busy Bodies **** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Tiny Sanford, Charlie Hall, Jack Hill, Dick Gilbert, Charley Young) – Classic Movie Review 7404

Director Lloyd French’s superlative 1933 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy short film Busy Bodies is still laugh-out-loud slapstick comedy entertainment. It is one of their gems, written by Stan Laurel.

Laurel and Hardy play woodworkers who are busy with a hilarious chapter of accidents at their sawmill (‘It’s great to have a good job to go to!’) in this highly amusing, inventive knockabout comedy with few words, which ends memorably with their Model T Ford car sawed exactly in half in a giant band-saw, with Stan and Ollie on either side.

Stan and Ollie are on winning form and there are good support turns from Charlie Hall as their double-crossed co-worker and Tiny Sanford as the leering foreman, as well as Jack Hill (shop worker), Dick Gilbert (shoveller) and Charley Young (shop worker).

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