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Laurel & Hardy: Swiss Miss [VHS]

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I love this movie (saw it on TV a long time ago), as well as most of L &H 's wonderfull stuff: it is bad enough that it is not available on VHS: I would anyway would rather buy it in DVD. When is anyone going to produce this gem in DVD?

If everyone displayed the love that these two had for each other
as friends the world would be a better place

I cannot believe how difficult it is to find Laurel & Hardy film on video. You would'nt think movies from the 30's/40's would be hard to obtain? So i,d love to review this movie BUT I CAN'T GET IT !

Swiss Miss is great. It took me awhile to figure out where to purchase this DVD, stores did not have it, Best Buy couldn't order it, so I was at a loss. Thanks to Amazon I was able to get it for my husband for Christmas.

I read alot of reviews about this one and was hesitant to buy it. It turned out not to be so bad, too my surprise it wasn't as much of a musical as the reviews led me to believe. It had musical material but Laurel & Hardy were the key elements to the film right throughout. Laurel & Hardy have some very funny scenes...one of the highlights was Stan getting drunk & trying to move a Piano over a bridge. Overall this is an ok piece of Laurel & Hardy film...better then the twin brother feature in "Our Relations" but nowhere near as good as "Way Out West".

This is not the best L and H feature but some moments are unforgettable! If you are not familiar I reccomend Sons Of The Desert but when I saw Swiss Miss as a child I laughed for a week.

I agree with others that it is uneven and the boys don't get enough screen time, the romantic subplot is distracting ...

But watch Stanley with the Saint Bernard. It is a master shot <continuous filming>. It is truly brilliant filmmaking. Sadly the rest of the feature does not support it. Still reccomended!

Producer Hal Roach makes the regrettable error of shoehorning Laurel and Hardy into a romantic musical that looks like a Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy reject. Fortunately, "Swiss Miss" (1938) includes some of Stan and Ollie's most memorable scenes - highlighted by their surreal encounter with a gorilla on an Alpine suspension bridge. Skip the dreadful songs and you will have a good time.

Stan(to Ollie)"I see a monkey."Ollie"Well it doesn't surprise me a bit.You drink any more brandy and you'll be seeing pink elephants."

Another one of my favourite L&H movies.Also another one of their films where Ollie sings.One of the few Hal Roach L&H features that don't include James Finlayson in the cast.My favourite scene is(you guessed it)where Stan and Ollie had to carry a piano across a wooden footbridge in the Swiss Alps,and encounter a Gorilla(who was played by actor Charles Gomora,the same actor who had played Ethel in the 1932 L&H short The Chimp).Another favourite scene is where the boys have to do dishes for the hotel chef.Ollie wipes numbers off the chalkboard with his bum.One other scene I like is where Stan accidently punctured a hole in the gas pipe under the cheese shop floor,causing flames to spring up under Ollie.

The boys are in Switzerland selling mousetraps(Stans good buisness sense,Switzerland has the most cheese,they also must have the most mice)
Soon,Stan and Ollie are bought out and given bad money.The boys go to the local restraunt/hotel and eat their fill,but cant pay the debt.The boys are of course, put to work.
A composer,Walter Wolf King is staying at the hotel hiding out from his wife(Grete Nateler)a successful opera singer from Austria.Walter wants to make it without his wifes help before he returns to Austria.(!938,the couple would have a lot more to worry about when they returned home with Hitler about to take over.Thats Life)
Its a Great Laurel and Hardy film loved by all.
Lots of Great Tunes to go with it.
Mistake,The boys are ordered to take a piano to a treehouse so Walter can work in peace.The evil cook(Adia Kuznetzoff)who loves Grete,plants a bomb in the piano to get rid of Water.The bomb scene was cut,so we see Stan,drunk,stupidly falling against the keys for no reason.

Laurel & Hardy visit Switzerland, where they become involved with a temperamental operatic composer and his singing-star wife. This isn't one of the team's better features, but it does contain some of the best-remembered Laurel & Hardy scenes (Stan trying to coax some brandy from a St. Bernard; Stan and Ollie moving a piano across an Alpine bridge, etc.). Fans will consider this worth a look.