At the wedding, Ollie is present to give the bride away. Stannie and Ollie come up with a new scheme. She reluctantly agrees, but not before Ollie suffers the dunking. But Barnaby agrees to drop the charges if Bo Peep will marry him. Barnaby has them arrested on a burglary charge, and the two are sentenced to be dunked in the ducking stool and then banished to Bogeyland. The two then hatch a plan to sneak into Barnaby's house and steal the mortgage but are again foiled by their incompetence. Stannie and Ollie are fired without getting the money. But Stannie has mixed up an order from Santa Claus (building 100 wooden soldiers at six feet tall, instead of 600 soldiers at one foot tall) and one of the soldiers, when activated, wrecks the toy shop. He and Stannie set out to get the money for the mortgage from their boss, the Toymaker ( William Burress). Ollie offers her all the money he has stored away in his savings can, only to learn that Stannie has taken it to buy peewees (a favored toy consisting of a wooden peg with tapered ends that rises in the air when struck with a stick near one end and is then caused to fly through the air by being struck again with the stick). Widow Peep refuses, but is worried about where she'll get the money to pay the mortgage. Knowing the Widow Peep is having a difficult time paying the mortgage, Barnaby offers the old woman an ultimatum – unless Bo Peep agrees to marry him he will foreclose on the shoe. The mortgage on the shoe is owned by the villainous Silas Barnaby ( Henry Brandon as a character based on the English nursery rhyme " There Was A Crooked Man"), who is looking to marry Bo-Peep. Stannie Dum ( Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee ( Oliver Hardy) live in a shoe (as in the nursery rhyme There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe), along with Mother Peep (the Old Woman), Bo Peep ( Charlotte Henry), a mouse resembling Mickey Mouse (actually played by a live monkey in a costume), and many other children. In contrast to the stage version, the film's story takes place entirely in Toyland, which is inhabited by Mother Goose ( Virginia Karns) and other well-known fairy tale characters. Īlthough the 1934 film makes use of many of the characters in the original play, as well as several of the songs, the plot is almost completely unlike that of the original stage production. The film was originally printed in Sepiatone, but there are two computer-colorized versions. The film is also known by the alternative titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet (the 1948 European reissue title), and March of the Wooden Soldiers (in the United States), a 73-minute abridged version.īased on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Gus Meins and Charles Rogers, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Looking to become your favorite toy or trying to bring some of that joy from the silver screen for your tyke? Maybe the whole family is ready to team up on a fun quest together.Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical Christmas film released on November 30, 1934. No matter what story you and yours want to create, we've got the Toy Story costumes to help you get there. Heck with the imagination at work, we wouldn't be surprised if you added a cape to your look and became a dinosaur superhero or a crown to go full-on Disney Princess! It's time to say hello to the new toy in the toybox and see what kind of adventures you're going to enjoy! Will you be going with Andy on a space adventure or trotting off into the Wild West to stop a dastardly villain from breaking into the stagecoach? Maybe you'll be going into prehistoric times. That's how you get their name written in marker on the bottom of your shoes, after all. It's our job as toys to give everyone that feeling of tremendous joy and awesome memories. If they knew that we toys could run around, talk, and go on adventures without them, it might be harder for them to come up with their own stories for us. Shh! Are all the humans leaving? It's essential to stay in our quiet and immobile state so long as they're around.
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