Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history, and deservedly so, so I am happy to see any of their films. At a concert with a retiring Conductor, Stan and Ollie in the band seem to be following everyone else except the Conductor, who is getting constantly irritated. The boys are forgetting their moments to play, having instruments falling apart, dropping music sheets and making all the other players screw up and fall over. When they get home to a soup dinner, the boy at the table says that they got fired, and they are quickly chucked out. They play their instruments on the street to earn some money (like in their film Below Zero), and Stan of course can't follow Ollie to start. When they move location, the are outside a building that the Conductor is practising, and when they walk away they keep ending up in the open sewer holes. Ollie loses his patience and throws the instruments away, and a fight begins, with punching, ripping each other's clothes, and soon enough one men joins in, and another, and many others are involved, ripping trousers off, and it ends with Stan and Ollie walking away together in a large man's pair of trousers. There were the tiniest moments of comedy, but it isn't a great black and white silent film. The music added to the film doesn't match all the images, and it sounds off tune at times, I can't see why some people think this is one of their best silent films. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were number 7 on The Comedians' Comedian. Okay!
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