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▸▸Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical Christmas film released on November 30, 1934. The film is also known by the alternative titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet (the 1948 European reissue title), and March of the Wooden Soldiers (in the United States), a 73-minute abridged version.
Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Gus Meins and Charles Rogers, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was originally printed in Sepiatone, but there are two computer-colorized versions.
Although the 1934 film makes use of many of the characters in the original play, as well as several of the songs, the plot is almost completely unlike that of the original stage production. In contrast to the stage version, the film's story takes place entirely in Toyland, which is inhabited by Mother Goose (Virginia Karns) and other well-known fairy tale characters as well as Mickey Mouse.
PLOT
Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) live in a shoe (as in the nursery rhyme There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe), along with Mother Peep (the Old Woman), Bo Peep (Charlotte Henry), a mouse resembling Mickey Mouse (actually played by a live monkey in a costume), and many other children. The mortgage on the shoe is owned by the villainous Silas Barnaby (Henry Brandon as a character based on the English nursery rhyme "There Was A Crooked Man"), who is looking to marry Bo-Peep. Knowing the Widow Peep is having a difficult time paying the mortgage, Barnaby offers the old woman an ultimatum – unless Bo Peep agrees to marry him he will foreclose on the shoe. Widow Peep refuses, but is worried about where she'll get the money to pay the mortgage. Ollie offers her all the money he has stored away in his savings can, only to learn that Stannie has taken it to buy peewees (a favored toy consisting of a wooden peg with tapered ends that rises in the air when struck with a stick near one end and is then caused to fly through the air by being struck again with the stick). He and Stannie set out to get the money for the mortgage from their boss, the Toymaker (William Burress). But Stannie has mixed up an order from Santa Claus (building 100 wooden soldiers at six feet tall, instead of 600 soldiers at one foot tall) and one of the soldiers, when activated, wrecks the toy shop. Stannie and Ollie are fired without getting the money.
A manhunt commences for Barnaby, who flees to Bogeyland through a secret passageway at the bottom of an empty well. Stannie and Ollie eventually follow Barnaby down the well. Meanwhile, Bo Peep crosses the river to Bogeyland, finds Tom-Tom and explains Barnaby's trickery to him.
CREATORS
Directed by Gus Meins and Charles Rogers
Screenplay by Frank Butler and Nick Grinde
Based on Babes in Toyland (operetta), book by: Glen MacDonough and Anna Alice Chapin
Produced by Hal Roach
Restored and upscaled by moonflix.com
CAST
Virginia Karns as Mother Goose
Charlotte Henry as Bo-Peep
Felix Knight as Tom-Tom Piper
Florence Roberts as Widow Peep
Henry Kleinbach as Silas Barnaby
Stan Laurel as Stanley "Stannie" Dum
Oliver Hardy as Oliver "Ollie" Dee
Pete Gordon as The Cat and the Fiddle (uncredited)
Angelo Rossitto as Elmer the Pig (uncredited)
Zebedy Colt as Willie the Pig (uncredited)
Payne B. Johnson as Jiggs the Pig (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher as the Chief of Police (uncredited)
William Burress as the Toymaker (uncredited)
Russell Coles as Tom Tucker (uncredited)
Alice Dahl as Little Miss Muffet (uncredited)
Jean Darling as Curly Locks (uncredited)
Johnny Downs as Little Boy Blue (uncredited)
John George as Barnaby's Minion (uncredited)
Sumner Getchell as Little Jack Horner (uncredited)
Robert Hoover as Bobby Shaftoe (uncredited)
Alice Moore as the Queen of Hearts (uncredited)
Kewpie Morgan as Old King Cole (uncredited)
Ferdinand Munier as Santa Claus (uncredited)
Charley Rogers as Simple Simon (uncredited)
Tiny Sandford as Dunker (uncredited)
Marie Wilson as Mary Quite Contrary (uncredited)
Original release date:
November 30, 1934
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