CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Prismark10 Block-Heads is the last film Laurel & Hardy made for Hal Roach, it is longer than their normal shorts but at least it is not padded out with musical dance numbers.It starts off in 1917 with the duo in the trenches fighting in France during World War 1. Laurel has been left behind guarding the trenches as Hardy and the rest of the troops went over the top. The trouble is no one told Laurel that the war has been over for 20 years.At a veterans home Laurel is reunited with Hardy and that is when trouble begins as Hardy invites him home for a steak dinner but Oliver's wife has other ideas, before long their female neighbour comes to help but Hardy needs to make sure he does not get caught in a an uncompromising position.The film is a series of skits from Hardy thinking Laurel has lost his leg and carrying him home, to Laurel crashing a car in Hardy's garage, the lift not working so the duo climb the steps and get involved in disputes with the residents plus a lot, lot more.After this film the duo headed for a decline but this is one of the best.

classicsoncall Lots of funny bits comprise this Laurel and Hardy feature, many of which could conceivably have been reworked into individual shorts. The story finds Stan discovered while still manning his sentry post from the first World War, but twenty years later! Subsequently, Ollie looks him up at the Old Soldiers Home and from there it's one disaster after another. I've always differentiated Laurel and Hardy from other comedy teams like Abbott and Costello in the sense that they do things funny rather than simply doing funny things. Although there are a fair share of funny things happening in this flick as well, with able assists from the likes of Billy Gilbert, James Finlayson and even former Our Gang bully, Tommy Bond. Stan's smoking pipe bit always manages to crack me up and the topper this time has him brushing the ashes out of his hand when he's done smoking. Minna Gombel is on hand as Ollie's less than understanding wife, but on the other hand, what's to understand? Rounding out the main cast is Patricia Ellis as Mrs. Gilbert, who's quite pretty while doling out her own share of laughs with the covered chair gimmick. A very funny treat for fans of the comedy duo that would please just about anyone.

tavm Like their previous feature-Pack Up Your Troubles, this one has Laurel & Hardy in a World War I setting, only here while Ollie has gone back to a normal life, Stan is left still guarding his post 20 years after it ended! In the present time, Ollie has been married for a year to the day so he has an hour to go out. That's when he discovers Stan back from his duty at the soldiers home when someone shows his picture in the paper. I'll stop there and just say this was another of their hilarious movies from the late '30s complete with some of their regular supporting cast of James Finlayson and Billy Gilbert as well as some newbies like Minna Gombell and Patricia Ellis, who I just watched in Romance on the Run. I also liked Marvin Hatley's score as I always like his music in the other L & H pictures. So on that note, I highly recommend Block-Heads. P.S. This was Hal Roach's last film under his M-G-M contract before switching to United Artists afterward. He sold his Our Gang shorts series to his former distributor beforehand so this turned out to be one of those players-Tommy Bond's-last appearance for his former boss as he'd join the rest of the gang at his new Culver City neighbor. Also, if you'd read Randy Skretvedt's book, "Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies", you probably know about Stan's original ending and his boss Roach vetoing it. Personally, I think I liked Hal's better.

Leofwine_draca Since I was a kid, BLOCK-HEADS was one of my favourite Laurel and Hardy feature-length movies. There's truly nothing to dislike about this one; from the opening, which paints an unusual but successfully comedic slant on the horrors of WW1, to the vintage spousal comedy which evolves when Ollie brings Stan home to tea.My favourite part of the feature, though, is the mid-section which involves the troublesome twosome climbing 13 flights of stairs in order to reach Ollie's apartment. The antics they get up to in this section are truly side-splitting, invariably involving the great James Finlayson, a brattish kid and some weird shadows. It's the stuff of comedy gold, and seeing it today I'm once again surprised at how it hasn't dated in the slightest.Inevitably, Laurel is the true star here, playing off his weird activities against Hardy's increasingly exasperated straight-man. The stuff with the hand-pipe and the glass of water are smaller gags, but in many ways I like them better than the bigger stuff. BLOCK-HEADS is an all-time comedy classic and a film I can watch over and over without getting bored.