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SIMPLY AMONG THEIR BEST
Way Out West is generally regarded as Laurel and Hardy's best feature film.Next to Sons Of The Desert.It is the only other L&H film to be a Stan Laurel Production(the other being Our Relations from a year earlier).Definetly one of my favourite L&H films.Not a dull moment in the movie.Rarely do we actually see Stan laugh.Not only is this one of their films where Oliver sings beautifully,but Stan also sings with a cartoonish trick voice.There are a lot of special effects in this movie as well.Such as Stan igniting his thumb,the boys running away from the sheriff in fast motion,and Stan trying to pull Ollie out of a trapdoor by the head and stretching Ollie's neck impossibley high in the process.<
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>Way Out West was definetly a must for my Laurel & Hardy collection!

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Singing Comedians
In this film Stan and Ollie are sent out West to deliver an inheritance to a nice, sweet girl who is unfairly treated by her mean guardians Mr. Finn and his wife. The inheritance is a deed to a gold mine, and when the greedy Mr. Finn hears of this he disguises his wife as the girl who is supposed to get the deed, and Stan and Ollie are duped into giving the deed to the wrong person as a result. In the end though, after much effort, the deed is restored to the proper and deserving person, and she heads down south to Dixie with Stan and Ollie, Stan being from the South himself ("the South of London").<
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>I used to love this film as a kid. I laughed so much when Ollie told Stan, "If you don't eat that hat, I'll tie you to a tree and let the buzzards get ya." I still love this movie, but not as much as I used to. I've developed more of a taste for faster-paced comedies like the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers. Still, this film is wonderful. I think it was my favorite Laurel and Hardy film because it was colorized, and the color does look great, but it would still be a wonderful film on a black and white TV. The physical comedy is top notch; I particularly like the part where Ollie's neck is stretched beyond belief, and the part where Ollie's hefty weight accidentally pulls an old mule onto a balcony, and the part where Ollie ties Mr. Finn up to a chandelier. I think the guy that played Mr. Finn is a Laurel and Hardy regular but I'm not sure. In this movie he had a smoking hot wife, even by today's standards. Mr. Finn had money of course, so that's how his whole relationship with the gold digger started. They didn't even sleep in the same room. To be fair though, I guess back then the entertainment industry couldn't show two people in the same bed.<
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>This movie had some really great songs, and it shows you how long ago comedians could often sing and dance as well. I really like the yodeling song at the beginning of the film and the "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" song. Without musical interludes such as these, this film wouldn't have been half as good as it was.<
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>I thought the funniest part in the movie was when they opened the door for the Sheriff. That's just great writing right there. However, it's a joke I don't want to spoil by telling it in advance. Just trust me, it's funny. Also believe me when I say that this is a good movie.

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So where's the DVD???
Does anyone know why so many of the minor shorts are available from L&H...but this classic is still only available on VHS? Is it a public domain film? Why isn't it a Criterion DVD? Every piece of garbage from last year is available on DVD...but not this...and so many other classics!