Product Details

• Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dinah, Gladys Gale, Billy Gilbert
• Directors: James Parrott
• Writers: H.M. Walker
• Producers: Hal Roach
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Anchor Bay
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2002
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301231872
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #428,797 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I hope you laugh as much as I do, November 27, 2001

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D. M. Farmbrough "Dave Farmbrough" (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music Box/Helpmates [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The simple ideas are the best, that's what they say. So two men trying to deliver a piano works out to be one of the funniest films. But it isn't any two men. You could give the same script and direction to some very talented people - say John Candy and Steve Martin, and it wouldn't work. This is for me because of the precise balance that Laurel and Hardy achieved in their partnership. Years of experience, knowing each other socially and working together gave them a marvellous instinct for timing and repartee when together on screen. Credit too must be given to James Parrot whose direction and (presumably) supervision of the editing makes for a polished production. It may only be short, but it's twenty of the best minutes of screen comedy. The coloured version is a little odd-looking, but it's not badly done and might help Laurel & Hardy find a new audience among the monochromophobes!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Comedy in Two Reels, February 19, 1999

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This review is from: Music Box/Helpmates [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It is astonishing that there is no review yet (2-18-99). This Oscar winning two-reel short has Stan and Ollie as delivery drivers setting up a player piano. The pratfalls and gags have never been equalled. Billy Gilbert is great as the professor who isn't very enthusiastic about his musical birthday gift. It is high art watching the timing of two of the greatest comedians of all time.

5.0 out of 5 stars the music box review, May 24, 2006

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doc holladay "doc" (sc, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music Box/Helpmates [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Music Box is in every Comdey Hall Of Fame in the world and ranks as their best film ever. The fact that this picture won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject proves that after 75 years it is still regarded as their masterpiece.