Babes in Toyland (1934 film)

• Stan Laurel: Stannie Dum
• Oliver Hardy: Ollie Dee
• Henry Brandon: Siles Barnaby
• Charlotte Henry: Bo Peep
• Florence Roberts: Mother Peep
• Virginia Karns: Mother Goose

Revenge is sweet is an American feature film comedy starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It was the fourth feature film by the duo and had its U.S. premiere on 14 December 1934. German and Austrian cinema release was in the spring of 1935. Among other things, the film was also " Adventures in Toyland ", "Land of Laughter" or " evil boys in Wonderland "was published.

Action

Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee live in Toyland in the shoe at the good-hearted mother Peep, whose daughter is Bo Peep. All live happily until the old skinflint Mr. Barnaby Bo Peep wants to marry. As pressure means he has a mortgage on Mother Peep Shoe and threatens to throw them out, Bo Peep should not be his wife. When Stan and Ollie are then also fired from their jobs in the toy factory because of their clumsiness and so no money can apply for the mortgage, to Bo Peep decides but to marry Mr. Barnaby, although it is very difficult, since her boyfriend Tom - Tom has already asked for her hand. Fortunately, Stan and Ollie comes a brilliant idea: On the wedding day Stan dressed as a bride, and the unsuspecting Barnaby 's Ollie, the best man, the mortgage to the breaking point. When it comes out that it is not about Bo Peep, but Stan, says that the whole Toyland, except Barnaby, who soon cooking up a common plan: He wants Tom - Tom append a pig robbery; his goal is that Tom - Tom is consequently relegated to horror land to black men. This also succeeds, but Stan and Ollie manage to prove tom-toms innocence and so to save him from the horror country. But here too, Barnaby is not defeated: he rushes the black men to Toyland, determined still to get Bo Peep wife. But again, Stan and Ollie can stop him: Shoot down arrows game and rushing 1.80 -cm "toy" soldiers on the black men what they propose finally to flight. At the end they want them, neither to hunt a charge game arrows, but the clumsy Stan aimed in the wrong direction, and the charge goes to Ollie.

Others

• Filming began in early August 1934, and ended in mid-October.
• As early as the winter of 1933 producer Hal Roach bought the rights for the operetta, which consisted of three acts. Since the piece was missing a lot of history, he wrote an extension. However, when he Stan Laurel showed that responded very dismissive of what led to the rotation start was postponed and the script had to be revised.
• The wooden soldiers were made ​​of lead and 30 cm high. The special effects director Roy Seawright led by effects in a single frame.
• The German premiere took place in 1935 without synchronization but only with German subtitles. 1960 " Revenge is sweet " sync with Walter Bluhm as Stan and Bruno W. Pantel as Ollie and celebrated its re-release on 13 February 1961. This version has been preserved until today. For the dialog Books by Gerda Rüxleben was responsible.