Babes in Toyland (1934 film)

Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical film released on November 30, 1934. The film is also known by its alternate titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet the 1948 European reissue title, March of the Wooden Soldiers and Wooden Soldiers in the United States.

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 and 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, 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 shell 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.The two then hatch a plan to sneak into Barnabys house and steal the mortgage, but are again foiled by their incompetence. Barnaby has them arrested on a burglary charge, and the two are sentenced to be dunked in the ducking stool and then banished to Bogeyland. But Barnaby agrees to drop the charges if Bo Peep will marry him. She reluctantly agrees, but not before Ollie suffers the dunking. ........

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