Laurel and Hardy Collection-V01 (1941)

Editor's Note THE BIG NOISE: Laurel and Hardy play janitors at a detective agency who pretend to be actual investigators and manage to keep a new bomb out of enemy hands and even sinking a Japanese submarine! GREAT GUNS: Laurel and Hardy get hired to look after a millionaire's pampered son, and when he gets drafted for the war effort, they decide to enlist themselves. JITTERBUGS: In one of the best of the later Laurel and Hardy movies, Ollie and Stan play con men selling "gasoline pills" during the oil-shortage days of WWII. However, when they meet a small-town girl whose mother has been bilked of her savings by real-estate swindlers, they don disguises (Hardy as Southern colonel Wattison Bixby and Laurel in drag as Aunt Emily) to bust up the gangster ring.

	Arthur Space
	Dick Nelson
	Doris Merrick
	Oliver Hardy
	Robert Bailey
	Sheila Ryan
	Stan Laurel
	Vivian Blaine
	Malcolm St. Clair - [Big, Jitterbugs] Director
	Monty  Banks - [Great] Director

Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings\ 6 of 10
Even at their worst, Laurel and Hardy were such natural comedians and such likeable characters that they still manage to raise a smile or two, which is more than some comedians do at their best. The boys look tired this time out, and some of the gags are forced and obvious (there is a segment involving the boys undressing in a bed aboard a railroad car that goes on forever), and there are occasional stretches where they vanish from the story altogether. Nonetheless, there is still the occasional bright gag that works, the odd comic line that gets a laugh, and the simple joy of watching these two characters.