Them Thar Hills

Those distant mountains ( Alternative title: Those distant hills / Blessed Camping joy; Original Title: Them thar Hills ). 's An American slapstick film from 1934, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. In addition, Billy Gilbert, Mae Busch and Charlie Hall effect in the film. The film was released on 21 July 1934.

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Ollie suffers from gout, which is why his doctor recommended him a trip to the high mountains. He should be there recovered along with Stan and drink a lot of mountain water. Meanwhile, it is in the mountains near a small hut to a shootout between police and a gang of moonshiners. The criminals can dispose of a portion of the brandy in a fountain before they are arrested. Stan and Ollie, who have made a caravan now on the way to the mountains, finding the hut before leaving and stay there with their caravans. You prepare a meal, with Ollie takes the mixed with the alcohol water from the well. The couple enters the Hall Caravan and asks for petrol because her car is left lying. Mrs. Hall remains in the caravan and drink with Stan and Ollie together the high-proof well water, while Mr. Hall refuels his car again and outdated. When he returns, he finds his wife drunk and before it comes to a confrontation with Stan and Ollie. While this ruin the appearance of Mr. Hall and others cut him his hair and pour him with honey, he avenges himself by uncoupling the caravan of the two: Stan and Ollie slip velvet furniture back through the wall to the outside. Furthermore, the rear part of Ollie poured over with kerosene and ignited it. To extinguish the fire, he finally jumps into the well, but the alcohol in the fountain inflamed and Ollie will herausgeschleuert. He lands upside down in the ground, while Stan completely unscathed is wrong.

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The film was shot between the 11th and 20th of June 1934 in the vicinity of the Santa Ynez Valley. During the filming of fog caused problems, so that production at times had to return to the Hal Roach Studios. Many of the jokes in the film arose spontaneously on the set. The song, which Ollie sings in the film, called The Old Spinning Wheel.

Mae Busch and Charlie Hall took their roles in the short film The besmirched honor a year later on, so it is a loose sequel of this film. The fact that a film of the comedy duo take on another film of the two terms, comes down to these two films hardly before. Bush and Hall played in other films with both front of the camera. So Mae Busch played repeatedly Ollies wife, for example, in her feature film Sons of the Desert. Charlie Hall played in nearly 50 films of the comedy duo to see and so was her most frequent Supporting Actor. Billy Gilbert, who embodied the doctor here, played in nearly a dozen films with the comedy duo.

Reviews

The TV magazine prism gave the film four out of five stars and wrote: "This film is a particularly good example of the improvisation of the two comedians. (...) It is no surprise that here at the end of the resting place is like a battlefield. "

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