March of the Wooden Soldiers
by Charley Rogers, Meins, Gus
Our Price: $9.98
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $4.46 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Baldwin Cooke, Billy Bletcher, Frank Austin, Henry Brandon, Richard AlexanderDirector: Charley Rogers, Meins, Gus
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PASSPORT VIDEO
Movie Reviews of March of the Wooden Soldiers
Movie Review: Christmas Classic
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember watching this on TV as a child, and bought it to watch with my grandchildren - they loved it! Lauren & Hardy and other actors/comedians from the 1930's, 40's, and 50's should not be forgotten.
Summary of March of the Wooden Soldiers
The most lavish feature built around Laurel and Hardy, 1934's March of the Wooden Soldiers is also the most bizarre. Opening unpromisingly with one of several mawkish numbers derived from Victor Herbert's musical Babes in Toyland, the antics of toyshop laborers Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee are worked into a scenario midway between Lewis Carroll and the Brothers Grimm. Nursery-rhyme characters come and go in a surreal fantasy, with the evil Mr. Barnaby threatening to evict Widow Peep from her shoe unless he receives her daughter Bo in marriage. The movie culminates in a full-scale invasion of Toyland by the yeti-ish Bogeymen and their defeat by the 100 six-foot wooden soldiers which Stan and Ollie have built by mistake. Henry Brandon gives a characterful performance, while 1930s child star Charlotte Henry is an appealing heroine. Directors Gus Meins and Charles R. Rogers milk the slapstick to an increasingly unnerving degree. Reputedly Hardy's favorite among the double act's features, March of the Wooden Soldiers emerges now as their most audacious screen appearance. --Richard WhitehouseAlso known as Babes In Toyland, this 1934 classic stars Laurel and Hardy as Stanley Dum and Ollie Dee, who do their bumbling best to help poor Little Bo Beep (Charlotte Henry who, a year earlier, played the title role in the all-star Alice in Wonderland) escape the evil clutches of Barnaby (a truly frightening Henry Brandon) and his band of Boogeymen.
Also included is a special bonus: The rare 1921 silent short A Lucky Dog, which marked the very first joint appearance of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Comedy DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in CLASSIC FANTASY FILMS 1930-1959
The Jungle BookRelease date: 2002-02-19; DVD
Best price: $3.00
Price in other shops:
Pinocchio (Disney Gold Classic Collection)Release date: 1999-10-26; DVD
Best price: $42.99
Tom ThumbRelease date: 2000-10-03; DVD
Best price: $11.94
Price in other shops:
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)Release date: 2007-03-22; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Darby O'Gill and the Little PeopleRelease date: 2004-08-03; DVD
Best price: $5.82
Price in other shops:
Sleeping Beauty (Special Edition)Release date: 2003-09-09; DVD
Best price: $15.89
Price in other shops:
Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition)Release date: 2003-02-11; DVD
Best price: $24.95
Price in other shops:
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. TRelease date: 2001-04-24; DVD
Best price: $12.62
Price in other shops:
Thief of Bagdad (1940)Release date: 2002-12-03; DVD
Best price: $48.88
Fantasia (Special 60th Anniversary Edition)Release date: 2000-11-14; DVD
Best price: $46.99
Similar DVD Movies
The Bells of St. Mary'sRelease date: 2003-09-23; DVD
Best price: $7.59
Price in other shops:
The Best of Abbott & Costello, Vol. 1 (Buck Privates / Hold That Ghost / In the Navy / Keep 'Em Flying / One Night in the Tropics / Pardon My Sarong / Ride 'Em Cowboy / Who Done It?)Release date: 2004-02-10; DVD
Best price: $34.79
The Best of Abbott & Costello, Vol. 3 (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars / Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion / Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein / Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man / Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer / Comin' Round the Mountain / Lost in Alaska / Mexican Hayride)Release date: 2004-08-03; DVD
Best price: $34.92
A Christmas Carol (Ultimate Collector's Edition)(B/ W & Color)VCI Entertainment; Release date: 2007-10-23; DVD
Best price: $11.45
Price in other shops:
Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition)O'HARA,MAUREEN; Release date: 2006-11-21; DVD
Best price: $10.49
Price in other shops:
March of the Wooden SoldiersWELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2006-11-07; DVD
Best price: $9.07
Price in other shops:
Laurel & Hardy II (Way Out West / Block-Heads / Chickens Come Home)Release date: 2005-03-15; DVD
Best price: $78.78
A Christmas Carol (2 versions: Colorized & Original Black and White)Release date: 1998-10-28; DVD
Best price: $8.93
Price in other shops:
Laurel & Hardy (Sons of the Desert/ The Music Box/ Another Fine Mess/ Busy Bodies/ County Hospital)Release date: 2003-08-19; DVD
Best price: $124.98
Babes in ToylandRelease date: 2002-09-03; DVD
Best price: $7.79
Price in other shops: