"Love 'Em and Weep" is an American 20-minute live action short film from 1927, so this one is approaching its 100th anniversary. Of course this makes it a black-and-white silent film, even if there's many versions out there where they added music later on. I will spare you the names of the writers and directors here, but it was more than I expected for such a brief movie. The reason this film is not entirely forgotten today is because it features the probably most successful duo in comedy history Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, but it is not one of their typical films needs to be said. They are neither the central characters nor really share too much screen time together. As a consequence, there's also some other very successful actors from the days of silent film in here like Mae Busch or James Finlayson who plays the main character and well I think his role could easily have been pulled off by the likes of Laurel, Hardy (probably more suitable) or Chaplin or Keaton too. Overall, it as not as much of a fun watch as I hoped it could be. It gets slightly better towards the end I must say, but not good enough for a positive recommendation for me. So as this is only in theory a Laurel and Hardy short film, I am not too surprised it is easily among the least seen works starring these two here on imdb. And also because the quality content-wise is not that great unfortunately. Only worth seeing for the very biggest fans of the duo. Especially Hardy is hardly in it.
Review of Love 'Em and Weep
