History Film / BabesInToyland1934

Stan and Ollie are Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee, and they live in a shoe in Toyland. They are friends and roommates with the Widow Peep (Florence Roberts) and her daughter, Bo Peep (Charlotte Henry), who is being pressured into marriage by the villain, Silas Barnaby (Henry Kleinbach). Barnaby owns the shoe and threatens to evict everyone unless Bo Peep marries him. Ollie and Stan try to raise the money for the mortgage payment, but they bungle the job, and madcap antics ensue.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The pee-wees that Stannie Dum plays with were an actual children's toy at the time--although they did not boomerang back as seen in the film.

Stan and Ollie are Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee, and they live in a shoe in Toyland. They are friends and roommates with the Widow Peep and her daughter, Bo Peep, who is being pressured into marriage by the villain, Silas Barnaby. Barnaby owns the shoe and threatens to evict everyone unless Bo Peep marries him. Ollie and Stan try to raise the money for the mortgage payment, but they bungle the job, and madcap antics ensue.

''Babes in Toyland'' is a 1934 film directed by Gus Meins and Charles Rogers, starring [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]].

Loosely based on the stage show ''Theatre/BabesInToyland''. Six songs from the show appear in this film, but it shares little plot with the show except for the general idea of Toyland.

* LiveActionCartoon:The film itself has rather an cartoonish approach to it, like the costume designs and locations.

* YouMonster: An outraged Little Bo-Beep calling Barnaby a monster after he framed Tom-Tom for pig-napping.

* LiveActionCartoon:The film itself has rather an cartoonish approach to it like the costume designs and locations.

'''Stan''': Upset? I'm housebroken.

* AdiposeRex: Old King Cole in the 1934 film.
* AluminumChristmasTrees: The pee-wees that Stannie Dum plays with in the 1934 version were an actual children's toy at the time- although they did not boomerang back as seen in the film.

* BigGuyLittleGuy: The trademark of Stan and Ollie.

* ChekhovsSkill: Peewee, the game Stan is playing at the beginning. It's extremely difficult. The "Sons of the Desert", the international Laurel & Hardy society, always have a Peewee tournament at their conventions. At the final battle Stan uses his stick-whacking skills to fight the bad guys.

* LivingToys

* MegatonPunch: Tom-Tom delivers one to Barnaby in the 1934 version.
* MookFaceTurn: Barnaby's henchmen turn on him and help the hero.

* StopMotion: Used in the Laurel and Hardy version for the sequence in which Stan and Ollie start up the wooden soldiers and send them marching. For the rest of the climactic battle the soldiers are played by actors.

* UncertainDoom: It is unclear whether Barnaby is eaten by alligators.

* {{Expy}}: The recurring Mickey Mouse-like mouse in the Laurel and Hardy version. This one was actually approved of by Walt Disney himself[[note]]as were the Three Little Pigs[[/note]] -- although it does have the odd side effect of sticking Mickey into an era prior to his own creation.

* ChekhovsSkill: Peewee, the game Stan is playing at the beginning. It's extremely difficult. The "Sons of the Desert", the international Laurel & Hardy society, always have a Peewee tournament at their conventions.

* WouldHurtAChild: The Boogiemen have no qualms about kidnapping the children of Toyland. One even tries to attack Rock-a-Bye-Baby on the Treetop. Thankfully, a well-timed peewee saves the day.

* BrideAndSwitch: In the 1934 version, Little Bo Peep agrees to marry Barnaby so that he'll settle the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe house. However, he's tricked into marrying Stanley Dum, who had dressed up as the bride and hidden his face with the veil.

* CurbStompBattle: In the 1934 version, the Wooden Soldiers absolutely ''decimate'' the Boogiemen, alternately stabbing, stomping on, or just generally crushing the monsters. Losing body parts does not stop them at all, either.

* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Bogeyland, in the 1934 version, as everyone knows the Bogeys are horrible monsters.
* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: In the 1934 movie, Barnaby frames Tom-Tom for pignapping Elmer by placing the pig's hat and fiddle in his house, next to a plate of sausage. Later, when Ollie and Stan are lamenting Tom-Tom's fate, they take a nibble of the sausages...and discover that they're made from ''beef.'' That clues them in to the scheme and sends them running to Barnaby's cellar, where they find Elmer.

* LyricalShoehorn: 1934--"Don't cry Bo Peep, don't cry/To find your lost sheep, we'll try"

* UncertainDoom: In the 1934 version, it is unclear whether Barnaby is eaten by alligators.
* WouldHurtAChild: In the 1934 film, the Boogiemen have no qualms about kidnapping the children of Toyland. One even tries to attack Rock-a-Bye-Baby on the Treetop. Thankfully, a well-timed peewee saves the day.

Stan and Ollie are Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee, and they live in a shoe in Toyland. They are friends and roommates with the Widow Peep and her daughter, Bo Peep, who is being pressured into marriage by the villain, Silas Barnaby. Barnaby owns the shoe and threatens to evict everyone unless Bo Peep marries him. Ollie and Stan try to raise the money for the mortgage payment, but they bungle the job, and madcap antics ensue.

Loosely based on the stage show ''Theatre/BabesInToyland''. Six songs from the show appear in this film, but it shares little plot with the show except for the general idea of Toyland.

* ChekhovsSkill: Peewee, the game Stan is playing at the beginning. It's extremely difficult. The "Sons of the Desert", the international Laurel & Hardy society, always have a Peewee tournament at their conventions.