Block Heads

BlockHeads is a 1938 comedy film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, produced by Hal Roach Studios for MetroGoldwynMayer. The film, a reworking of elements from the Laurel and Hardy shorts We Faw Down 1928 and Unaccustomed As We Are 1929, was Roachs final film for MGM, and is remembered as one of Laurel and Hardys most successful films.

There is then a lengthy scene of the pair attempting to climb thirteen flights of stairs to Ollies apartment because they think the elevator is out of order. They are resting near the top when a top hatwearing man with a cane James Finlayson insults Ollie, leading him to challenge him to a fight outside. They return down the stairs, picking up spectators along the way. After settling the disagreement, the pair finally reach the top of the stairs, where they run into a brattish kid Tommy Bond with a football. Ollie kicks his ball down the stairwell, where it hits the face of a man speaking on a telephone at reception. The kids burly father emerges and orders Ollie back down the stairs to fetch it. After a titfortat fight with the father, the ball is kicked down the stairwell again and hits the man in the face a second time. When they finally reach the apartment, Ollies wife wants Stan to leave immediately, as she is disgusted with the bums he brings home. When food is demanded she walks out, leaving Ollie to prepare a meal for Stan, but the pair only succeed in blowing up the kitchen.Across the hall, Ollies attractive neighbor, Mrs. Gilbert Patricia Ellis, offers to help clear up the mess. She is then soaked by a bowl of punch the only item left unscathed from the kitchen explosion and the only dry clothing Ollie can find is a pair of his enormous pajamas. Mrs. Hardy then returns, because her car is wrecked, and Ollie tries to conceal Mrs. Gilbert by covering her with a cloth to make her resemble a chair. After Stan unwittingly sits on her, Ollie hides her inside a trunk. All this time, Mrs. Hardy has been quarreling with Ollie, and finally leaves. Biggame hunter Mr. Gilbert Billy Gilbert then arrives and the wife reveals herself after he boasts about his extramarital conquests. He then chases Stan and Ollie back down the stairs, blasting at them with a shotgun, missing the duo, but hitting everything else. A large number of philandering husbands jump out of windows

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