Product Details

• Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Veda Ann Borg
• Directors: Malcolm St. Clair
• Writers: Frank Fenton, Henry Lehrman, Scott Darling, Snag Werris
• Producers: Sol M. Wurtzel
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: March 22, 1995
• Run Time: 74 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303394027
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #299,694 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a "bomb", December 23, 2003

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Shyblader "shyblader" (PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Noise [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Although I've read terrible reviews about this movie I thought it was relatively amusing. Nothing incredibly funny but then again it wasn't a pure stinker either. The whole movie was pretty well strung together...not a bad movie for the whole family to enjoy. I thought Laurel & Hardy despite their age were very good in this one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars laurel and hardy,sherlock holmes style big war case, January 4, 2003

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Nicky Nickleby (Colorado) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Big Noise [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Great comedy by Stan and Ollie, our favorite
comedians. Interesting plot with the boys
playing two amateur detective, when all their
experience is in being janitors!They are trying
to keep a secret WWII weapon out of the hands
of a gang of con men. L&H stay at the house of the
rather eccentric,and somewhat twisted-minded
professor and his interesting family to guard
"The Big Noise". It's a film that'll make you proud
to be a American and a fan of Laurel and Hardy,American Heroes!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A BLOWN opportunity..., May 19, 2000

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plsilverman (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Noise [VHS] (VHS Tape)

With impressive sets, nice photography, nifty props, and a crazy plot involving an eccentric inventor, it's too bad that the picture is a (pause) dud. Just a few minor changes and you have a pretty good comedy - sadly, it looks like most of the effort went into sets and costuming, etc., instead of strong scripting and directing. For example, L & H are janitors assigned to cleaning a Detective agency. An after-hours call comes in to the place, and Ollie picks up the phone while Stan messes with a grating vacuum cleaner. The noise subsides and Ollie accepts a Detective's job because he and Stan are studying to be Detectives. I can imagine how the Hal Roach Studio might have developped the scene: the vacuum cleaner creates such a din that Ollie thinks they are being summoned as Janitors, and later they agree to transport the bomb as a kind of additional duty. Bumbling Janitors transporting a bomb is much funnier than bumbling Detective Trainees transporting a bomb. There are many other golden opportunities which are not realized. Anyway, it's not their worst movie as some critics would have you believe. (Rating is a LOW **).