Never was seeing two such decent hard-working fellows lose their entire livelihood such a pleasure to watch. The inventiveness and ingenuity never lets up for a moment.
I saw it today for the first time on a big screen, and was struck too by the freshness lent the film - as with many of their earlier films, like 'Hog Wild' - by being filmed out of doors. After the prologue shot near the intersection of Madison Avenue and Culver Boulevard in Culver City (already familiar from several of their silent shorts), the action relocates to Joe's Junk Yard ("Anything from a Needle to a Battleship Bought Sold and Exchanged"); where the boys curiously start their renovation there & then rather than taking it with them to do up somewhere else.
These scenes were shot in November 1932 on Hal Roach's ranch, the Arnaz ranch (about a mile from the Hal Roach Studio in Culver City) beyond which the land - long since built over - can be seen sloping away towards Robertson Boulevard, along which cars and pedestrians are visible throughout the film making their way oblivious that they're being preserved for all time as part of one of the jewels of screen comedy.
I saw it today for the first time on a big screen, and was struck too by the freshness lent the film - as with many of their earlier films, like 'Hog Wild' - by being filmed out of doors. After the prologue shot near the intersection of Madison Avenue and Culver Boulevard in Culver City (already familiar from several of their silent shorts), the action relocates to Joe's Junk Yard ("Anything from a Needle to a Battleship Bought Sold and Exchanged"); where the boys curiously start their renovation there & then rather than taking it with them to do up somewhere else.
These scenes were shot in November 1932 on Hal Roach's ranch, the Arnaz ranch (about a mile from the Hal Roach Studio in Culver City) beyond which the land - long since built over - can be seen sloping away towards Robertson Boulevard, along which cars and pedestrians are visible throughout the film making their way oblivious that they're being preserved for all time as part of one of the jewels of screen comedy.