weezeralfalfa Review of Should Married Men Go Home?

Should Married Men Go Home? (1928)

"There's a right way to do it, and a wrong way" Olliver Hardy

[6/10 · 11 October 2018]

After uttering the above chestnut, Ollie demonstrated several wrong ways to do things. First, he apparently wound the Victrola too tight, causing a large spring to pop out, with the record on top. In exiting the yard, Stan, even with his golf bag easily jumped over the fence, instead of using the gate. The less agile Ollie knew this might be the wrong way for him, but, not wanting to be shown up by Stan, in his attempt to jump the fence, his foot caught on the fence ,and brought the whole front fence down. Later, at the golf course, Laurel exhibited the wrong way to tee off. The actual golf play is minimal, and is mostly confined to Laurel and Edgar Kennedy, who happened to be just in front of them. We never see the two tarts, whom the boys picked up at the ticket counter, swing a golf club. However, they do play a role in the climactic mud slinging brawl, set off by Kennedy trying to hit his ball off a mud island surrounded by muddy water. Some of the mud he hits lands on a lady golfer, who retaliates, but misses, and hits one of the tarts. Things escalate from there. For me the mud brawl was much the highlight of the film, and joins a list of L&H films that end in some sort of brawl. If you decide you just want to see the brawl, it begins at the 19min. mark, and lasts 3min, until the end.......See it at YouTube.