Below Zero
Below Zero
NR | 26 April 1930 (USA)
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Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.

Reviews
Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
LouHomey From my favorite movies..
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
mark.waltz You'd think that Laurel and Hardy would get the hint when somebody pays them to go away, obviously annoyed by their concertina. Others are just annoyed by repeat refrains of "In the Good Old Summertime" and sabotage them at every chance. Then, they offer to take a kindly police officer to dinner for "three nice juicy steaks smothered in onions" and can't pay the check. It's out in the cold for them, head first, one of them ending up in truly cold water in a really zany finale. This isn't at all sensible (especially the second half) or even a story, but it's difficult not to laugh. The final shot us truly one of their most oddball.
hausrathman Laurel and Hardy play two street musicians whose success seems limited by the snowy weather, their choice of material (In The Good Old Summertime), and location, i.e., playing in front of a school for the deaf. Their luck changes when they find a cash-filled wallet, but changes for worse again when they invite the local cop out to dinner with them only to discover that it was his wallet!This film is not one of their classics, but is an amusing film. Laurel and Hardy display their normal interplay. The supporting cast of regulars is excellent. The film simply doesn't build to true comic hilarity -- despite ending with one of their odd "grotesque" gags. It simply finds an amiable pace and tempo and stays with it which is more than good enough for me.Worth a look.
rsyung Although the subject of this short is particularly grim, I find myself constantly drawn to it. It has a certain minimalist attraction...very little dialogue and no underscoring(probably because of it being a relatively early sound subject and also so as not interfere with the boy's own music-making), and bleak and austere snow-driven sets. Stan and Ollie truly become victims of their dire circumstances and it is only the bizarre physical distortion at the end(Laurel was quite fond of such endings) that takes us out of our reality and back into theirs.
Ron Oliver A LAUREL & HARDY Comedy Short.It's BELOW ZERO and the Boys' attempt to make some money as sidewalk musicians has proven to be a spectacular failure. Then Stan finds a wallet loaded with cash lying in the snow...A funny early talkie. Highlight: the snowball fight. That's Charlie Hall as the street cleaner & Frank Holliday as the friendly cop. Ollie sings `In The Good Old Summertime.'