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Includes bibliographical references and index. Abbott and Costello on the home front : a critical study of the wartime films / Scott Allen Nollen. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, in Army Air Corps flight gear, happily cavort with Carol Bruce. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and Londonįrontispiece Keep ’Em Flying (1941).
Stan's extended, high-pitched laughter is so infectious that you can even see the actress performing with him struggling to control her smirk.ALSO BY SCOTT ALLEN NOLLEN AND FROM MCFARLAND Warners Wiseguys: All 112 Films That Robinson, Cagney and Bogart Made for the Studio (2008) Louis Armstrong: The Life, Music and Screen Career (2004) Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968–2001 (2002) Robin Hood: A Cinematic History of the English Outlaw and His Scottish Counterparts (1999 paperback 2008) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema: A Critical Study of the Film Adaptations (1996 paperback 2005) Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen (1994) Boris Karloff: A Critical Account of His Screen, Stage, Radio, Television and Recording Work (1991 paperback 2008) The Boys: The Cinematic World of Laurel and Hardy (1989 paperback 2001)Ībbott and Costello on the Home Front A Critical Study of the Wartime Films SCOTT ALLEN NOLLEN
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The whole movie is chock full of great gags, particularly from Laurel - his being able to inexplicably use his thumb as a lighter or attracting a pack of wild dogs after fixing a hole in his shoe with a tough steak - but nothing compares to his performance when the ruthless wife of the saloon owner tickles him ferociously in an attempt to get him to surrender the deed to her. Another classic set piece arrives a few minutes later, when Stan and Ollie join in with a rendition of "On the Trail Of The Lonesome Pine," a song with which they will forever be associated thanks to a brilliantly funny vocal gag performed by Stan Laurel (with the aid of sound trickery). Once there, they enter a saloon, performing as they arrive an irresistibly silly dance routine to "At the Ball, That's All," with a Western-looking group of men sat on the porch outside. Stan and Ollie are heading to the Wild West on an important mission: to give the deed to a late man's gold mine to his daughter, who is lodging with "guardians" in the town of Brushwood Gulch.
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