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The Big Noise

  • 1944
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  • 1h 14m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
6,3/10
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Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, and Doris Merrick in The Big Noise (1944)
Screwball ComedyActionAdventureComedyRomanceWar

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  • Director
    • Malcolm St. Clair
  • Writers
    • Scott Darling
    • Frank Fenton
    • Henry Lehrman
  • Stars
    • Stan Laurel
    • Oliver Hardy
    • Doris Merrick
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  • ÉVALUATION IMDb
    6,3/10
    1,5 k
    MA NOTE
    • Director
      • Malcolm St. Clair
    • Writers
      • Scott Darling
      • Frank Fenton
      • Henry Lehrman
    • Stars
      • Stan Laurel
      • Oliver Hardy
      • Doris Merrick
    • 35Commentaires d'utilisateurs
    • 6Commentaires de critiques
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    Rôles principaux24

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    Stan Laurel
    Stan Laurel
    • Stan
    Oliver Hardy
    Oliver Hardy
    • Ollie
    Doris Merrick
    Doris Merrick
    • Evelyn
    Arthur Space
    Arthur Space
    • Alva P. Hartley
    Veda Ann Borg
    Veda Ann Borg
    • Mayme Charlton
    Robert Blake
    Robert Blake
    • Egbert Hartley
    • (as Bobby Blake)
    Frank Fenton
    Frank Fenton
    • Charlton
    James Bush
    James Bush
    • Hartman
    Louis V. Arco
    • German Officer
    • (uncredited)
    Julie Carter
    Julie Carter
    • Cab Driver
    • (uncredited)
    Ken Christy
    Ken Christy
    • Train Passenger
    • (uncredited)
    Edgar Dearing
    Edgar Dearing
    • Motor Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    Robert Dudley
    Robert Dudley
    • Grandpa
    • (uncredited)
    Francis Ford
    Francis Ford
    • Train Station Attendant
    • (uncredited)
    Harry Hayden
    • Mr. Digby of the Patent Office
    • (uncredited)
    Dell Henderson
    Dell Henderson
    • Pullman Car Passenger
    • (uncredited)
    Esther Howard
    Esther Howard
    • Aunt Sophie
    • (uncredited)
    Selmer Jackson
    Selmer Jackson
    • Mr. Manning of the Patent Office
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Malcolm St. Clair
    • Writers
      • Scott Darling
      • Frank Fenton
      • Henry Lehrman
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    Michael_Elliott

    Good L&H

    Big Noise, The (1944)

    ** 1/2 (out of 4)

    I was a bit shocked that Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide gave this film a BOMB because I thought it was the best of the later day L&H films. Laurel and Hardy play detectives hired to protect a new bomb made for the war but of course nothing goes as planned. While this is a far cry from their Hal Roach days, I thought there were plenty of nice laughs throughout the film to the point where I'd certainly watch this again. A lot of the gags here were "remakes" of stuff done earlier in their career but they still made me laugh.
    hausrathman

    "The Big Noise" not necessarily "The Big Bomb" it is made out to be.

    Laurel & Hardy play two janitors at a detective agency who take the job of protecting an inventor with a new bomb themselves with predictable results in this late comedy.

    This film has been unfairly labeled as one of the worst films of all time. Nonsense. While it is certainly not one of their best films, it is not their worst either. In some ways, it should probably be one of the better late features because it presents the team in their traditional, well-honed personalities rather than forcing them into being cut rate Abbott & Costellos. Some of the gags happily hearken back to earlier shorts. Still, it doesn't quite work. Why? While growing up, "The Big Noise" played frequently on the local UHF channel -- more so than any of the other late, non-Roach features. As a child, I found the film enjoyable, though even at that tender age I found it inferior to the Roach material. Is it the lack of knockabout humor? No. Is it their age? No, I don't think that's the main problem either -- even though wrinkles do work against Stan's persona. Ollie's persona, on the other hand, isn't particularly hurt by his age. (The older I get, the more I find myself concentrating on Hardy. Although he often described himself as Stan's straight man, he was nothing of the kind. He is a talented comedian who remains a joy to watch.)

    It was only after a recent viewing have I been able to put my finger on the problem. The problem is the intended audience. In their heyday, Laurel & Hardy were mainstream comedians aimed at a widest possible audience. While children often take great pleasure in Laurel & Hardy films, and I'm sure most of the people reading this comment gained an appreciation for the team in their childhood, their films weren't specifically aimed at children. I think that changed at Fox and MGM. I believe these late films, "The Big Noise" in particular, were aimed primarily at children and were softened in the process.

    There is hardly a description of the team that does not use the word "child-like" to describe their antics, but Laurel & Hardy, while they were often naive and innocent, were not children. (Except maybe in "Brats" and "Wild Poses.") Certainly not in the other worldly sense that Harry Langdon's persona could be labeled child-like. They were adult men and as often as not found themselves in adult situations, whether it be drinking bootleg hooch or sneaking out on their wives. Granted, you would never find the sophisticated comedy of "The Thin Man" in a Laurel & Hardy film, but they weren't necessarily childish either. Laurel & Hardy benefited from keeping their foot in the adult world. Just as the Marx Brothers were funnier against the more serious backdrop of an opera. Laurel & Hardy were funnier in real world situations we could all find ourselves in.

    While World War II themed storyline of "The Big Noise" is certainly more serious than many of their classic shorts, the boys themselves are more child-like than they were at Roach. By aiming their comedy at children, they lost some but certainly not all of their wider appeal. That's the problem. That's why the film doesn't completely work for me. Still, a child like Laurel & Hardy is better than no Laurel & Hardy at all, so feel free to enjoy this film for its simple benefits regardless of what the critics say.
    7cellorey

    Good for a few laughs

    This is one of Laurel & Hardy's later Twentieth Century-Fox films and it is not one of their best. However, it is an upbeat and fast-paced effort that shows signs that they put some effort into it. THE BIG NOISE has some good bits: the dinner with the inventor, the bunk bed scene in the train, and the constant threat of the bomb going off with Stan transporting it carelessly. The only part of this movie that seems weak is the Nazi segment and the scenes with a very annoying little kid. Other than that, this is recommended for all L&H fans, especially younger fans. 7 out of 10.
    8theowinthrop

    Maisie - Doats

    In the Medved Brothers' usually on target book, THE 50 WORST FILMS OF ALL TIME, THE BIG NOISE is given a degree of prominence as the worst of Laurel & Hardy's films. John McCabe dismissed it in his MR. LAUREL AND MR. HARDY by saying the plot of the film can be described in one sentence - the boys are assigned to deliver a bomb and do so. Yet a number of people have also supported it as one of their cutest, if not funniest movies.

    When L & H left Roach in 1941, they had planned to do a production of the Victor Herbert's THE RED MILL as their next movie after SAPS AT SEA. They probably were picking up on their success in operetta films (BABES IN TOYLAND, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL, THE DEVIL'S BROTHER, even SWISS MISS) as a sure fire way of showcasing their humor. I have often thought about this project. No doubt the roles of Kid Connor and Con Kidder that David Montgomery and Fred Stone had originated would have been redone by the screenplay writer (with advise from Stan) to fit the person-as of Stan and Ollie. But by 1941 the cycle of films in Hollywood which were based on operettas had slowly collapsed (the last major ones were Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald's BITTERSWEET, as well as Eddy and Rise Stevens' THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER). Shows based on current stage hits were more likely to be made into films (the next and last Eddy and MacDonald film would I MARRIED AN ANGEL, based on the Rodgers and Hart stage musical). It seems doubtful that any of the studios would have been willing to finance a production of a 1905 operetta hit, whose major big-time number was "In Old New York".

    Yet that was what Stan was proposing (and Ollie would have supported him on that). William Everson has suggested that actually, by 1941, the boys were tired, and needed more time to rejuvenate their material. I end up feeling that this is true. The best of the later films, JITTERBUGS, has some nice moments (Hardy romancing Lee Patrick, and shepherding around Stan in drag as an old lady), and includes some rejuvenated material at the conclusion of the film from Alice Faye's movie, SALLY, IRENE AND MARY, but (as John McCabe suggested) it's plot does not make any sense (particularly as Bob Bailey's character, a major one in the plot, seems good natured one moment and opportunistic and crooked the next).

    THE BIG NOISE does have a straightforward plot, tied in with the current war effort. Arthur Space is one of those screwy scientist/inventors who crop up in many comedies of the 1920s to 1930s. He has invented food pills that replaced full course meals, and has an impossible push button modern house (after the 1939 - 40 New York Worlds Fair "push button" future space saving homes become a perennial joke in comedies - and a weak one at that - see the Marx Brothers contemporary film THE BIG STORE and the ethnic children in the disappearing beds scene).

    Space has, however, designed a new secret weapon - a highly powerful bomb. This is the "Big Noise" of the title. The government is testing it with the intention of using it against the Axis, but their agents are planning to steal it to use against us (shades of Lionel Atwill as Moriarty in SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON). In need of guards for his weapons, Space hires L & H thinking they are detectives (they are janitors in a detective school).

    In reality the interplay of L & H with Space, Robert Blake (then Bobbie Blake), Esther Howard (who shows a sexual interest in Hardy - quite unusual for him, and very unsettling to him), and the cast is actually quite good. The result is that the material, even if reused from earlier films (the bit from BERTH MARKS about changing in the upper berth of a train) is quite well done. And since the film is actually keeping a coherent story for a change (as opposed to JITTERBUGS) the film is more than just tolerable.

    It is also nice to see that it did introduce one popular tune to movies: the tongue-twister tune, "Mares Eat Oats and Does Eat Oats and Little Lambs Eat Ivory", which is called "Maisey Doats" or "Maizy Doats" for short. Stan supposedly plays it on his accordion in the film.

    A nice movie, possibly the boys' last good comedy.
    7westegg

    Worth Another Look

    As recently suggested by others, THE BIG NOISE has suffered in reputation for years, usually sight unseen. As a lifelong L & H fan, I finally saw it for the first time via the new Fox set (a very well done package), and it is more than acceptable a part of L&H's legacy. Of course it can't match their heyday, but among the Fox films it is much more Stan & Ollie's show than the initial Fox entries. The whimsical fadeout is by far one of the most delightful moments of their entire career, which is something.

    Give this film some slack, and you'll have a good enough time with it. I'm glad Fox has made this one available.

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    • Anecdotes
      The train-berth scene is a reworking of Laurel & Hardy's short subject Berth Marks (1929). Laurel requested that the setting be changed to a turbulent plane, but producer Sol M. Wurtzel refused to accommodate him. At the end of the scene, one can hear the camera crew laughing in the background.
    • Gaffes
      When the duo are in the hi-tech bedroom, and Ollie rides the bed back out of the wall, the following sequences show that the rotating table is first clear, then has the pipe and magnifying glass back on it, then is clear again, and then has the chairs re-arranged.
    • Citations

      [to Stan, as he pokes Ollie's bulging belly with a pistol]

      Dutchy Glassman: If you don't tell me where the bomb is, I'll plug your friend here so full of holes he'll look a Swiss cheese!

    • Connexions
      Featured in La Famille Savage (2007)
    • Bandes originales
      America, My Country Tis of Thee
      (1832) (uncredited)

      Music by Lowell Mason, based on the Music by Henry Carey from "God Save the King" (1744)

      In the score when the U.S. Capital Building is shown

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    • Date de sortie
      • octobre 1944 (United States)
    • Pays d’origine
      • United States
    • Site officiel
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    • Langue
      • English
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
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    • Lieux de tournage
      • 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis(Studio)
    • société de production
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    • Brut – États-Unis et Canada
      • 1 635 000 $ US
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    • Durée
      1 heure 14 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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