I like to read your comments too, Mysto. As I'm currently watching all of the L&H films available, it's interesting to get another perspective on them. Although the quality on the 21 discer has been rather decent - some have looked worse than others - the silent with the boys as waiters (the title escapes me although it may have been 'From Soup To Nuts') was disappointingly poor - but with some of their films being lost, we are very lucky to have all that we do.

As a break from the titular box set I spent the night with 'Babes In Toyland' last night. It was the first time I've had the pleasure of viewing it and although the first ten or fifteen minutes were a bit hard going it definitely rewarded my perserverance and proved to be a bit of a corker. I loved all the chase sequences and the all out battle at the end with the bogeymen forced into the crocodile infested swamp by Stan, Ollie and the wooden soldiers. Pretty creepy stuff indeed! Even some of the things that were probably supposed to come across as cute had a sinister vibe about them too - like that mangy cat, the three expressionless little pigs and the (Micky) Mouse - was that a monkey in a mouse costume? I have to hold my hands up and say that all of this creepy weirdness just made me like it even more. And Henry Brandon was great as the villainous cad, Barnaby - even more so when you consider that he played the part when he was only 22 years of age!

Back to the box set tonight for me, though!