I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This short shows the confined area to which it was, namely that poor Ollie actually enjoys the peace and quiet, never mind his broken foot, in his bed of pain at the County Hospital. Stan 'decides' to visit him,as 'he's nothing better to do!' That's the sarcastic line Ollie gives back to him, after he leaves Ollie's peace in tatters, assaults the doctor's dignity and almost kills him, cuts up another patient's trousers and brings Ollie 'hard boiled eggs and nuts' instead of candy or fruit etc. "You didn't pay me for the last box I brought you." says Stan after Ollie's enquiry why he didn't bring the candy!Altogether,it was one of their shorts that had a thin-ish outline, but was filled fairly well considering. It had the odd finale of Stan sitting on a syringe/sedative intended for another patient. The nurses casually mention to themselves in fits of laughter, that Stan will sleep for a month. Strangely not telling him in Hollywood licence style - so of course, when Ollie is prematurely struck off (Because Stan has wrecked the place) the latter drives him home, well almost - sleeping at the wheel, swerving and near-missing everything. It ends with their car bent round in a semi-circle shape, as a policeman tells them to pull over. They can't as because of the shape of the car, it drives around in a circle!As I say, a shallow type of tale, with Stan visiting Ollie in hospital, but nonetheless, it delivers the calamitous Stan in the style we knew was coming Ollie's way!

County Hospital (1932) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Hardy in the hospital with a broken leg so Laurel comes to pay a visit and gets him kicked out. I think this was my first L&H film and it remains one of my favorites. The stunt with the window and Hardy being thrown in the air is the highlight as is the final gag with the wrecked car.Chump at Oxford, A (1940) *** (out of 4) After stopping a bank robber Laurel and Hardy get the reward of an education at Oxford. This was the European version, which added a 20-minute prologue, which was a remake of From Soup to Nuts but it really doesn't work. The original is a lot better and contains a lot more laughs. The rest of the actual film here is very funny especially the maze sequence, which had tears coming from my eyes.Them Thar Hills (1934)** 1/2 (out of 4) Laurel and Hardy head out into the mountains for some fresh air and come across a well that bootleggers have filled with moonshine. There were some very funny moments here and there but overall this here really isn't anything too special.

This is a very funny and watchable Laurel and Hardy short. Ollie has been injured and Stan, like a pal, comes to visit and cheer him up. However, from the minute he arrives, Stan creates havoc--driving the staff mad and torturing Ollie in the process. I particularly liked how his playing with the counterweight to Ollie's broken leg resulted in Ollie's doctor being launched out the window! As a result, Stan AND Ollie are ejected from the hospital. The final driving sequence is the low-point, as at times it looked VERY fake, but the final scene makes this screwup forgivable. This film is good fun and only a crusty old curmudgeon would dislike it.By the way, I am rather shocked to say that there is a better hospital comedy starring Billy Gilbert (who was also in COUNTY HOSPITAL). NIFTY NURSES is a mostly forgotten musical comedy that frankly is head and shoulders above this Laurel & Hardy film. While I adore Stan and Ollie, this other film is the funniest hospital short I've seen--better than COUNTY HOSPITAL and the Three Stooges' MEN IN BLACK.

This is in my opinion one fine short that is generally underrated by the critics (perhaps caused by its clumsy back projection scene at the end of the picture). There are some very well staged gags - and probably one the best pantomime scenes of Stan Laurel: He merely sits down to eat an egg at Ollies bed; the audience roars with laughter, although nothing really funny happens; he just sits there eating. But HOW he does it - it's pure Art of comical pantomime!