Moonlight and Noses, 1925 - ★★½Full review >>
MOONLIGHT AND NOSES (Stan Laurel, USA, 1925, 5)
Mediocre but, as introducer Rob Stone highlighted, critically important as Laurel is behind the camera and directing a comic duo that you would clearly recognize as a proto Laurel and Hardy (he didn’t also point out that James Finlayson is their “antagonist,” a nut doctor who pays the two to dig up a corpse). There’s even a scene where the fat guy, frustrated with the little-boy-lost reaction to the skinny dummy’s eff-up, does a slow burn, then hits him on the head.
Nov 25th 2022