Babes In Toyland (1934)

BABES IN TOYLAND  (1934)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Gus Meins, Charles R. Rodgers
    Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlotte Henry,
    Henry Kleinbach, Felix Knight, Jean Darling
The first screen version of the Victor Herbert musical features numerous characters from Mother Goose, plus Laurel and Hardy as toymakers hoping to keep the Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe from being evicted. When I was a kid, this would turn up on television at Christmas every year, and we never missed it. It looked like an old movie then, and it looks older now, but the storybook world it creates should still please the kiddies (except maybe the scary parts) and there's an innocence and timelessness about Laurel and Hardy that fits the material perfectly. Alternate title: "March of the Wooden Soldiers".