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Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert, William Gillespie, Lilyan Irene ... see more see more... , Sam Lufkin , Gladys Gale , Charlie Hall

This most famous of Laurel and Hardy shorts won an Oscar for "Best Comedy Short Subject." Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play characters who run a transfer company. They are hired to deliver a player pi... read more read more...ano to an address which turns out to be up a very long flight of steps The whole film involves the pair's adventures bringing the piano up the steps, the piano sliding back down, the pair bringing it up again -- and then being told by the postman (Charlie Hall) that they could have driven it up a side road. Typically, the boys take the piano back down and bring it up "the right way," by the side road, only to find that the person receiving the piano is a temperamental professor (Billy Gilbert) who had been annoyed by them earlier. He destroys the piano in a fit of pique before discovering that his wife purchased it for him as a gift. The Music Box is classic Laurel and Hardy -- almost painfully hilarious. The same daunting concrete stairs (which still exist today in the Silverlake section of Los Angeles) were used previously by the comic duo in their 1927 two-reeler Hats Off. ~ Janiss Garza, Rovi

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PG, 29 min.

Directed by: James Parrott

Release Date: April 16, 1932

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  • ajv2688
    September 6, 2010
    ajv2688
    Another mediocre Laurel and Hardy movie, sometimes funny sometimes not funny.
  • zdravkoduck
    October 14, 2010
    zdravkoduck
    I remember seeing this on tv years ago when Leonard Maltin would introduce laurel and hardy films on tcm. Upon viewing it again via youtube (i know right!?) a lot of things began to upset me. Why on earth did they lug that piano all the way DOWN the stairs when they already got t... read moreo the top? Why couldn't that asshole professor just walk around? Still funny.
  • MECreviews
    March 15, 2008
    MECreviews
    I hate that so-called famous playing-piano music sound. Ugg. But it was funny when the whole piano slid onto that guy's back.
  • tomh1138
    April 13, 2007
    tomh1138
    Absolutely perfect comedy. Endlessly inventive. Laurel and Hardy are two movers trying to push a piano up a long set of stairs. Anything and everything that you could possibly imagine can and does go wrong--plus more than one thing you didn't see it coming. Rent it asap!
  • theimmortallurker
    February 18, 2007
    theimmortallurker
    A true classic, the only film to win an Oscar for the boys. Billy Gilbert gives a wonderful supporting performance.

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