![]() ![]() Those banished to Bogeyland never return they are inevitably eaten alive by the bogeymen. Tom-Tom is put on trial, convicted, and banished to the abode of the " bogeymen," Bogeyland, which he is taken to on a raft by two dunkers across an alligator-infested river. Barnaby proceeds to abduct Little Elmer ( Angelo Rossitto), one of the Three Little Pigs, and then has a henchman plant false evidence (including sausage links) in Tom-Tom's house. Ollie teases Stan about having to live with Barnaby as Stan cries saying "I don't LOVE him".Įnraged, Barnaby plots his revenge, eventually hitting on the idea of framing Bo Peep's true love, Tom-Tom ( Felix Knight), on a trumped-up charge of "pignapping", and getting him banished to Bogeyland. Bo Peep is still free of Barnaby, and the mortgage is destroyed. After inspecting it, Ollie tears it up, and then lifts the bride's veil - to reveal Stannie, who had worn Bo Peep's wedding dress to the ceremony. After the nuptials, but before the ceremonial kiss, Ollie asks for the "wedding present" (the mortgage) from Barnaby. ![]() ![]() At the wedding, Ollie is present to give the bride away. Stannie and Ollie come up with a new scheme. She reluctantly agrees, but not before Ollie suffers the dunking. But Barnaby agrees to drop the charges if Bo Peep will marry him. Barnaby has them arrested on a burglary charge, and the two are sentenced to be dunked in the ducking stool and then banished to Bogeyland. The two then hatch a plan to sneak into Barnaby's house and steal the mortgage but are again foiled by their incompetence. Stannie and Ollie are fired without getting the money. But Stannie has mixed up an order from Santa Claus (building 100 wooden soldiers at six feet tall, instead of 600 soldiers at one foot tall) and one of the soldiers, when activated, wrecks the toy shop. He and Stannie set out to get the money for the mortgage from their boss, the Toymaker ( William Burress). ![]() Ollie offers her all the money he has stored away in his savings can, only to learn that Stannie has taken it to buy peewees (a favored toy consisting of a wooden peg with tapered ends that rises in the air when struck with a stick near one end and is then caused to fly through the air by being struck again with the stick). Widow Peep refuses, but is worried about where she'll get the money to pay the mortgage. Knowing the Widow Peep is having a difficult time paying the mortgage, Barnaby offers the old woman an ultimatum – unless Bo Peep agrees to marry him he will foreclose on the shoe. The mortgage on the shoe is owned by the villainous Silas Barnaby ( Henry Brandon as a character based on the English nursery rhyme " There Was A Crooked Man"), who is looking to marry Bo-Peep. Stannie Dum ( Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee ( Oliver Hardy) live in a shoe (as in the nursery rhyme There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe), along with Mother Peep (the Old Woman), Bo Peep ( Charlotte Henry), a mouse resembling Mickey Mouse (actually played by a live monkey in a costume), and many other children. In contrast to the stage version, the film's story takes place entirely in Toyland, which is inhabited by Mother Goose ( Virginia Karns) and other well-known fairy tale characters. Īlthough the 1934 film makes use of many of the characters in the original play, as well as several of the songs, the plot is almost completely unlike that of the original stage production. The film was originally printed in Sepiatone, but there are two computer-colorized versions. The film is also known by the alternative titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet (the 1948 European reissue title), and March of the Wooden Soldiers (in the United States), a 73-minute abridged version.īased on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Gus Meins and Charles Rogers, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical Christmas film released on November 30, 1934. ![]()
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