Sons of the Desert (1933)

SONS OF THE DESERT  (1933)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: William A. Seiter
    Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase,
    Mae Busch, Dorothy Christy, Lucien Littlefield
Stan and Ollie party it up at a lodge convention in Chicago, after telling their wives they're going to Hawaii for Ollie's health. When the wives learn the truth, the boys are in big trouble. Leonard Maltin considers this Laurel and Hardy's best feature, and it's a prime example of their peculiarly childlike attitude toward women. It's as if their social development in that area had stalled out at around age six, making you wonder how their characters ever could've courted members of the opposite sex. Their primary relationship - completely asexual - is with each other, and the feature film they seem most at home in isn't this one, but "Babes In Toyland", where they literally become characters in a fairy tale.  The international organization of Laurel and Hardy enthusiasts takes its name from the title of this movie.