2024--HAPPY TO REPORT THAT BABES IN TOYLAND AKA MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS WILL BE ON WPIX THIS THANKSGIVING

Just got word that PIX11 is pleased to announce the station will continue its annual Thanksgiving tradition and air MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS (Babes in Toyland, the 1934 Laurel and Hardy classic) 9 am for the black and white version---3 pm for the colorized -- READ MORE AT ‘March of the Wooden Soldiers’ to air on PIX11 this Thanksgiving 2024 | PIX11

For those who don't know, MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS A.K.A. BABES IN TOYLAND is a Laurel and Hardy musical Christmas film released on November 30, 1934. The film is also known by the alternative titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet (the 1948 European reissue title), and March of the Wooden Soldiers (in the United States). You can read more about it here.

Our friends at European Film star Postcards have a wonderful post on Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy; check it out here.

The actor who played the miserly Silas Barnaby--(a character based on the English nursery rhyme "There Was A Crooked Man" contrary to other curious assertions you may have seen elsewhere) was Henry Brandon.  Read more about him here.

The film is also available on AMAZON...BLU-RAY  https://amzn.to/3lEd0da

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