CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Robert J. Maxwell Stan and Ollie hadn't yet become Stan and Ollie. In this one, they're strangers. Stan is a taxi driver who finds himself unwittingly a stowaway on a cruise ship. Ollie is the Purser. Also aboard are a drunken millionaire and a lady con artist whose midget husband poses as a baby and helps her cheat at cards.Various gags follow, some slapstick and some an iota more sophisticated, as when the "baby" entices Stan into shooting craps and uses loaded dice. Do people still shoot craps? It seems a lost form of gambling, just as shooting marbles among kids has disappeared.It's a silent picture and it's interesting to see that Stan's character is far more assertive than it was to become in the next few years. Stan has also developed his "crying face" which seems only half there without the accompanying whine of distress.

Jackson Booth-Millard Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history, and deservedly so, so I am happy to see any of their films. Millionaires are boarding the steamship Miramar sailing to Monte Carlo, with girl obsessed first mate Purser Cryder (Hardy), second meanest man to keeping an eye out. Boarding the ship are con artist Madame Ritz (Anita Garvin) and midget husband Roger (Harry Earles) posing as a Baby, being driven by cab driver Chester Chaste (Laurel), who unintentionally boards, and as a stowaway has to work to stay aboard. He mucks about with passengers in the play room on a skipping room and with a ball, but he sets off to work. While Ritz goes off to set up a game of bridge and her husband smokes his cigar, the husband of Baroness Behr (Lupe Velez), the Baron (Will Stanton) is very drunk, and when Chester tries to help by putting him back in his room, he keeps getting chucked out. While Purser is trying to assist some women on the stairs, Chester, bringing drinks in, has a money and dice game with "baby" Roger, eventually realising he is using trick dice to always land on 2 and 5. Realising this he chases Roger under and over the board many times before Ritz returns with Purser behind her. At the swimming pool Chester pushes in the rude Baroness, and all the women want to soak him, but end up doing it to Purser. Ritz wants help getting "baby" Roger's pram down the stairs, Chester just pushes it down and Ritz punches him on the nose. During the bridge game, Chester can tell that Roger is helping Ritz out, so he helps one of the other female players win the game, and he ends up punched again. Roger steals some money and hides it in the back of his doll, and Chester wants his dice cash back, and he tosses the doll down a chimney to make sure he gets it. Roger is covered in soot, so Purser tells Chester to go and wash him, and after this is unsuccessful Chester takes the doll of cash and other valuables to Purser and a crowd. In the end, Madame Ritz and Roger are arrested, Chester throws down his has, and that of Captain Bull (Frank Brownlee) showing his quitting of his job, and Purser gets two black eyes from Roger. Filled with good slapstick and all classic comedy you want from a black and white film, it is an enjoyable silent film. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were number 7 on The Comedians' Comedian. Worth watching!

Boba_Fett1138 Although I just adore Laurel & Hardy, I can't say that I was very amused by this early attempt of the two.It's definitely true that this movie can't really be labeled as a Laurel & Hardy movie, since they don't appear in this movie as a comical duo. They play two separate roles, although they also interact with each other during some of movie its moments.It's one of the earliest movie starring the two boys. Their later trademark style of slapstick humor and chemistry is not yet fully notable in this movie. Instead the movie features some highly predictable and far from original comedy moments. The movie isn't even ashamed to recycle some of its own jokes time after time.Of course it's true that the movie also does have its moments. It's still fun enough to consider this a watchable movie but I have the feeling that Laurel & Hardy fans will probably be disappointed with this movie. It's not a movie that made me laugh a lot, though I think I smiled a lot. Especially the moments with the 'baby' were amusing. Kind of spooky to find out that the 'baby' was actually being played by an actual adult. Freaky!The movie is a bit longer than other Laurel & Hardy silent comedy shorts. The movie is 26 minutes long (so the 20 minutes runtime shown on this site is false!). It definitely shows on screen that this movie is longer than average. Some moments are overlong and tiresome. Seemed that 20 minutes was really the ideal length for a comedy short, at that time period. Perhaps if the movie had been shorter, I would also had been more positive about it.Obviously the boys and Hal Roach were still searching for the right comedy style, timing and pacing.This movie just does not yet fully show the Laurel & Hardy we all love.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

BJJ-2 One of the better shorts made with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before their celebrated teaming;well produced,some amusing sequences,though frustratingly the boys don't share that many scenes in the film.Still,we get the the first known camera-look from Hardy(although he had performed this trait in previous films,notably STICK AROUND,made in 1925),and Anita Garvin and Harry Earles are fine as an improbable man and wife jewel thieving team.Hal Yates is credited with the direction,though in fact Hal Roach is thought to have been the director,with Yates filming one day's worth of retakes.Later in the year,he directed HATS OFF,when the teaming was becoming an item;sadly no copy of HATS OFF is known to exist.