Laurel and Hardy: Revenge is sweet

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Revenge is sweet
Original title Babes in Toyland
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1934
length 75 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Charley Rogers ,
Gus Meins
script Nick Grinde ,
Frank Butler
production Hal Roach
music Victor Herbert
camera Francis Corby ,
Art Lloyd
cut Bert Jordan ,
William H. Terhune
occupation

Revenge is Sweet is an American feature film - comedy starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy . It was the duo's fourth feature film and had its US premiere on December 14, 1934. It was released in German and Austrian cinema in the spring of 1935. Among other things, the film was also classified as “Adventure in Toy Land”, “Land of Laughter” or “Evil Boys in Wonderland ”published.

action

Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee live in the happy toy land in the shoe with the good-hearted old mother Peep, whose daughter is the lovely Bo Peep. Those involved live happily here until the wealthy but disgusting old Mr. Silas Barnaby Bo Peep decides to marry. As leverage, he has a mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and threatens to throw her out if Bo Peep does not become his wife. Ollie promises mother Peep cocky that he will raise money from his supposedly friendly boss, the toy maker, so that mother Peep's daughter does not have to marry Barnaby. However, Stan and Ollie lose their jobs that same day because of their clumsiness, because instead of 600 one-foot-tall toy soldiers they built 100 six-foot-tall soldiers for Santa Claus. Still without money, Stan and Ollie try to steal the mortgage documents from Barnaby's house. But the villain catches the two and puts them on trial. They are to be banished to the black men in the horror country. However, Bo Peep decides to marry Mr. Barnaby, although it is very difficult for her because her boyfriend Tom-Tom has already asked for her hand. Because he has achieved his goal, Barnaby drops the charges against Stan and Ollie and they are allowed to stay in the country.

Fortunately, Stan and Ollie come up with the saving idea before the wedding: Stan dresses up as a bride on the wedding day, and the unsuspecting Barnaby gives Ollie, who is the best man, the mortgage to tear apart. When the bride loosens the veil, it turns out that it is not Bo Peep, but Stan. The whole toy country except Barnaby is happy, the wedding of Bo-Peep and Tom-Tom is arranged. But Barnaby is already hatching a new plan: He is hanging on Tom-Tom for the robbery of one of the Three Little Pigs , in fact, of course, he is behind it himself. In a rather amateurish court hearing, Tom-Tom is banished by the king to the horror country to the black men. Bo-Peep follows her lover to Horror Land, where they endure a terrible time. But Stan and Ollie manage to prove Tom-Tom's innocence and free the little pig from Barnaby's house.

Barnaby does not give up, he can escape through a secret passage into the horror country. Stan and Ollie can get the young lovers out of the horror country, but at the same time Barnaby rushes the black men into toy land, determined to have Bo Peep as his wife. At first it looks like a defeat for Toyland, but Stan and Ollie can stop him here too: They shoot game arrows and set their six-foot-tall "toy" soldiers at the black men, what finally puts them to flight. In the end they want to put another load of game arrows in them, but clumsy Stan points in the wrong direction and the load goes to Ollie.

background

  • It is an adaptation of the operetta Babes in Toyland by Victor Herbert from 1903, which was later filmed several times for cinema or television. Other well-known versions are the 1961 Disney film Riot in Toy Land and the 1986 TV film Adventure in Toy Land . However, the plot was heavily rewritten in the Hal Roach version and has little in common with the original, for example the characters depicted by Laurel and Hardy are not included in the original story.
  • In the winter of 1933, producer Hal Roach bought the rights to the operetta, which consisted of three acts. Roach liked the music of the operetta, but he found the plot very mixed, so he described it himself. When he showed it to Stan Laurel, however, the latter reacted very dismissively, which meant that the start of shooting was postponed and the script had to be reworked. Roach and Laurel also regularly argued during filming.
  • Many of the characters that appear in Toyland are taken from famous poems, nursery rhymes and stories from the English-speaking world. In the German-speaking countries, however, these figures are largely unknown, so that many allusions and homages can hardly be understood by the German-speaking audience. With Mother Goose , which sings her song at the beginning of the film is a fictional author of fairy tales and poetry books.
  • Shooting began in early August 1934 and ended in mid-October, with two directors in charge: While Charley Rogers was responsible for the comedy scenes between Laurel and Hardy, Gus Meins directed the rest of the film.
  • The wooden soldiers were made of lead and about 30 cm high. The special effects director Roy Seawright created effects in frame-by-frame mode.

German version

The first German dubbed version was created by Berliner Synchron in 1961 under the title Dick und Doof - Revenge is sweet . The dialogues were written by Gerda von Rüxleben , and the dialogues were directed by Bodo Francke. Walter Bluhm can be heard as Stan and Bruno W. Pantel as Ollie. Klaus Miedel , Heidi Brühl , Erich Poremski , Alexander Welbat and Gerd Duwner can also be heard in other roles .

A second dubbed version was created for DVD release in 2009, in which Stan and Ollie were not dubbed by any of their usual speakers. Norbert Aping describes this new version as qualitatively "poor"

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert Aping: Das kleine Dick-und-Doof-Buch Schüren, Marburg 2014, appendix p. 374f.