I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Pretty Good

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

In this twenty-minute silent short, Laurel and Hardy are door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen. They make the mistake of knocking on James Finlayson's door. Finlayson doesn't want a tree but in closing the door he catches one of its branches, which requires Hardy to ring the doorbell again. It happens again. Then it happens with Laurel's overcoat.One thing leads to another and Finlayson demolishes Laurel and Hardy's Model T Ford, while they do their best to flatten his home.It was to become a fairly regular routine in Laurel and Hardy's movies and has been imitated in other comedies since then -- one man standing there, watching with interest, as a second man deliberately assaults him with a can of paint or a pair of scissors. (See "The Great Race" for at least one example.) An amusing diversion.

This is probably one of Laurel & Hardy's more famous silent comedies, in which they become embroiled in a relentless tit-for-tat war of attrition with homeowner James Finlayson who refuses to buy a Christmas tree from them. The boys wear heavy overcoats, as if to persuade the Californian residents that it really is winter weather but to no avail. Their tree and Stan's coat keep getting caught in Finlayson's door and each time Finlayson has to open it he is a little more irate until finally he cuts the tree into three sections. That's the cue for battle to commence. This isn't really one of my favourite Laurel & Hardy films –it's too mean-spirited for my liking, and there's something unpleasant about the destructive rage involved when Stan and Ollie enter Finlayson's house and begin smashing it up.

Big Business (1929) **** (out of 4) One of the greatest comedies ever made, this two reeler has Laurel and Hardy playing Christmas tree salesmen who are simply trying to make a sell. When one customer (James Finlayson) says no there's a misunderstanding, which turns into a flat out assault in terms of violence and laughs.Laurel and Hardy made dozens of silent films but this here is perhaps their best and a strong argument could be made that it's the greatest film they ever made. The term madcap is something that was said about all sorts of silent comedies but this one here really goes back to the days of Mack Sennett and just tries to get a laugh no matter what. The set up is pretty simple as the boys have a car, which the man destroys and in return they destroy his house. It's really amazing at how simple the movie is yet it scores one terrific laugh after another. The scenes of the house being destroyed are just jaw-droppingly hilarious because you just never know what's going to come next.Laurel, Hardy and Finlayson really deserve a lot of credit because their performances really sell the material. Especially in the early scenes where we can slowly see both sides losing their cool and that madness just keeps looming until it finally explodes. Certainly one of the best silent comedies you're going to see.

Well I belong to a place which is slightly behind on technology. The first Laurel and Hardy film I got to see was in 1988, at a time I was already 16 years old. I remember having seen a quiz on them however, about a year before that in a well reputed magazine of those times in India called "Illustrated Weekly". And that was it.Today in 2005, I would wish to introduce myself as "Know all" on the matter of the "Boys".To me they are "GODS". They have the ability of pacifying my existentialist angst at the flick of a button. There 75 year old gags still yank my guts out every time I laugh and fall off the bed.