Monday, August 30, 2021

Helpmates (1932)

Oliver Hardy's wife (Blanche Payson) has been away and the house is a complete wreck, when he finds out that his wife is on her way home today he panics and calls on Stan Laurel to help him clean up the house. Naturally calling on Stan's help results in complete chaos and much destruction. 

Finally the house is in something vaguely resembling tidy Oliver heads to pick up his impatient wife at the station, Stan decides to light the fire so all is nice and warm and comfy. However, as the fire will not light he gets some paraffin, what is the worst that could happen?

The humour and slapstick is pretty obvious, you can see the situations coming a mile off but they are all executed perfectly. A great comedy short.