Truly Dreadful Film

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

In this one, the boys are musicians who have trouble attracting customers for two hours. After they decide to move, Ollie finds out why when he looks at the building's name. At their next stop, one woman pays a dollar to "move a couple of streets" while others throw snowballs. Then there's a real large woman who puts a kibosh on the whole thing by throwing the instruments in the street. So with no means of getting paid, Stan discovers a wallet on the ground. Before a thug threatens to take that away from them, a cop arrests him and gets offered dinner from the grateful boys. I'll stop there and mention that with this being in the early talkie era, there's a minimum of dialogue between Laurel and Hardy as most of their humor is still visual with the gradual slapstick building in fine form throughout the first 10 minutes before the more dramatic part with the cop comes in. But there's one freak ending that Stan especially is fond of that ends this short hilariously. So on that note, I highly recommend Below Zero. P.S. Look for L & H regulars Blanche Payson, Tiny Sandford, Baldwin Cooke and Charlie Hall in their supporting parts.

This is a cute little Laurel and Hardy short. It begins with the boys working as street musicians to earn money but they are pretty unsuccessful--and their choice of tunes probably isn't helping any during the snow storm. The deaf joke at the beginning wasn't politically correct, but it was pretty funny. In a rather dark bit later in the short, Laurel and Hardy invite a cop to lunch after the boys find a wallet. Well, it wasn't very surprising WHO the wallet turned out to belong to, but what set this apart was the awful restaurant and how they dealt with deadbeats. I'm sure this sort of joke was a product of the times, given that the Depression had been on for about a year. While the film takes a very leisurely pace and not a lot of bold action occurs, there is a lot of charm and the gags are timed very well--and this is definitely classic Laurel and Hardy.

Amusing short comedy with Laurel and Hardy as two street musicians in the cold winter of 1929.While they don't deserve much entertaining the people on the streets their luck changes when Laurel finds himself a filled wallet. They're almost robbed but a cop comes to their rescue. To thank him, they take him to dinner.When the check is due though they find out that the wallet they found is actually the cop's, so in the end they're thrown out of the place.Amusing short from this funny couple, though a bit slow at times, in particular in the first part. 6/10.

Laurel and Hardy are busking on the cold streets during the cruel winter of 1929. They are making very little money out of it but there luck appears to change when they find a wallet loaded with cash. A thief tries to steal it from them but a kind policeman helps them out. In return for his help the duo take him for a big steak lunch.This film starts quite well with the duo out in the cold playing music for cash. However the jokes are repeated even if a quite short period of time and this causes it to stall a little early on. The latter stages are funny and (although it is quite obvious) I didn't see the ending coming quite like it did! The snowball fights are amusing but just do go on for too long in my opinion.The cast are good and feature quite a few Laurel and Hardy regulars. Laurel and Hardy themselves are good but Hardy overdoes his `looks to camera' by wasting them on minor things rather than holding them back for the bigger laughs. Laurel is good but has less to do.Overall this is an enjoyable short in two parts – both of which are funny albeit one is easier to enjoy than the other.