Laurel & Hardy: The Bullfighters
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Features
• Black & White
• HiFi Sound
• NTSC
In Theaters : 19 May, 1945
Video Release : 01 January, 1998 |
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Laurel & Hardy: The Bullfighters Customer Reviews
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Last & Best Of L&H's Twentieth Century Fox Excursion
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| Although in no way can this film compare with their days at the Hal Roach studio, in every way "The Bullfighters" rises way above their other Fox efforts and is easily the best of their later films. The opening taxi scene, the inclusion of their reciprocal destruction formula in the water-fountain scene at the El Matador Hotel, Stan's doppelganger in Spanish bullfighter, Don Sebestian and the subsequent comic complications, their entaglement with Richard K. Muldoon as the innocent defendant, now released and planning to "skin the boys alive" (offering parallels with Walter Long in the 1930s) - all helps create the old familiar ambiance of L&H of old. Even the bizarre ending is reminiscent of other Roach films such as "The Bohemian Girl" and "Thicker Than Water". Unlike the other TCF films, from the very opening scene, there are no lengthy, romantic subplots to intefere with the boys. The only other TCF film that comes close to this one is "Jitterbugs" where Ollie plays Colonel Watterson Bixby of Amadillo County, Texas reveling in his real-life Southern genteel heritage while Stan, in drag once again, plays Vivian Blaine's aunt, Emily Cartwright, a Bostian dowager in love with Colonel Bixby. The charm and aplomb with which Stan delivers his lines is a sheer delight. Yet, "The Bullfighters" has the advantage of being the closest and most welcome throwback to the straight-forward comedy of the bygone Roach days. |
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