Product Details

• Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Boland, Philip Merivale, Henry O'Neill
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Warner)
• VHS Release Date: January 27, 1993
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302641764
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #342,987 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sad to see Laurel & Hardy in decline, May 15, 2001

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nothing But Trouble [VHS] (VHS Tape)

In this 1944 MGM comedy directed by Sam Taylor, Laurel & Hardy are the chef and butler who foil a plot by enemy agents to poison the young exiled King Christopher (David Leland). On the one hand "Nothing But Trouble" spends time developing the boy-king's growing love for the joys of common democracy, such as playing football. Then we have the comic sequences in which Laurel & Hardy wreck a dinner party, try to take a steak away from a hungry lion, and end up on the ledge of a skyscraper. Clearly the boys are getting too old for this kind of stuff. Not as bad as "The Big Noise," but too close for comfort. Watching this one will only make you feel sad and not in a good way.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not one of their best, October 26, 2005

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myownme777 (avon park, florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nothing But Trouble [VHS] (VHS Tape)

this is one of the last films that laurel and hardy did and it makes me sad to give my favorite comedic duo only 3 stars.the thing i hate with their movies,as well as abbott and costello's,are that theres not enough of them in it.we always have to suffer through other peoples bad acting and bad singing,all of which always hamper how good these films deserved to be.of course this doesn't overshadow the comedic genius of laurel and hardy.this film is worthy for at least 2 scenes that i can think of.one is they forget to buy a steak for the dinner that they are making for their rich employer and instead decide to try to steal one from a lion.the other would have to be laurel and hardy trying to cut the steak that hardy just cooked.funny stuff indeed but these two deserved so much better.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun lightweight trifle, July 31, 2005

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Anyechka (Rensselaer, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nothing But Trouble [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is a bit shorter than I would've liked, and therefore doesn't get enough of a chance to develop beyond a lightweight trifle, but what is there is quite enjoyable. It's a little surprising at first to see how the boys have aged (though they were only in their fifties when this movie was made) and how therefore they're no longer able to be quite as physical and reckless as they were when younger, but there are still some quite good moments. Highlights include the football game, the dinner party at the house where Stan and Ollie are first working, retrieving the steak from the lion's cage to serve at dinner, and, in the scene towards the end (which had me in stitches) when they're hanging by the windowsill trying not to fall off of the building and Stan, overreacting as always, holding onto Ollie's legs for dear life, manages to make his friend's fall pants down. The subplot with the boy king is more than just a little stupid, but the scenes he has with the boys are quite touching, showing just how genuinely they cared about children and the less fortunate. It's not a masterpiece, but it is pretty fun for what it is.