Title: Sons of the Desert vs. Chaplin
Product review: So Charles Chaplin is a genius and Laurel & Hardy are not. Anyway,that seems to be the consensusamong the intelligentsia. Maybe they're right--- I saw "City Lights" recently and found the final, gut-wrenching scene so intense in its pathos, it almost left me in a catatonic stupor for the rest of the day. As for the remainderof this tour de force, "City Lights" did not seem particularly funny to me. So,if your comedic taste demandsgenius, by all means take the maudlin road to Chaplin, i.e.,"The Kid." If, on the other hand, belly laughs galoreare your preference, "the boys" (Stan & Ollie) will more than satisfy you--- especially in thiscompilation of their most hilarious films ("Sons of the Desert," "The Music Box"), plus other side splittinggems. Also included is fascinating data on the team and their work, and on Hal Roach, the man who brought them together..
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