According to an unidentified Decemnews item in the file on Hal Roach at the AMPAS Library, the film was to be produced with $500,000 provided by M-G-M, and was to star Laurel and Hardy as Simple Simon and the Pieman. The picture was also re-issued as Revenge Is Sweet. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, whose names appear above the title, are listed last in the cast listing. The lawsuit specified $40,500 in damages, but was settled out-of-court.Īlthough the print viewed was a re-issue version entitled March of the Wooden Soldiers, the above credits were taken from the film's original cutting continuity. Wood sued Stan Laurel and his stunt double, Ham Kinsey, claiming back injuries after Laurel and Kinsey threw him in the ducking pond on the set. Vincent's hospital to have his tonsils removed, the day after filming wrapped, and Hal Roach developed appendicitis.Īn extra named John D. Kewpie Morgan's part as Old King Cole called for him to laugh continuously - after two days, he ruptured muscles in his stomach. ![]() Assistant director Gordon Douglas slid 15 feet from the top of the Old Woman's Shoe and tore ligaments in his left leg. 'Henry Brandon' was injured in a bar fight at the Brass Rail. Stan Laurel fell off a platform and tore ligaments in his right leg. The filming turned into a symphony of cast injuries. They include the song "Go To Sleep," a beautifully photographed sequence in the underground caves. The six minutes formerly missing from the film have been restored on some prints and can be seen in the version shown on cable channel AMC. Stannie and Ollie attempt to shoot a parting volley of darts at the fleeing monsters, but the cannon tips over and covers Ollie's backside with darts. The soldiers march out of the toy factory and soon rout the bogeymen. A resourceful mouse takes to the air in a toy blimp and drops miniature torpedoes on the bogeymen, while Stannie and Ollie start up the giant wooden soldiers. Back at Toyland, everyone welcomes the returned heroes, but chaos breaks out as the village is overrun by Barnaby's mauraders. Stannie and Ollie follow him and find Bo-Peep and Tom-Tom, then are chased back to Toyland by Barnaby and the monstrous bogeymen whom he controls. Bo-Peep rushes off to find her sweetheart, while the townspeople chase Barnaby, who goes to Bogeyland through a secret passageway in his well. The next day, during Tom-Tom's trial, Stannie and Ollie find Elmer in Barnaby's cellar, but by the time they bring him back, Tom-Tom has already been sent to Bogeyland. Barnaby vows revenge, and later that night, kidnaps Elmer, one of the Three Little Pigs, and plants evidence to make Tom-Tom appear guilty. After the ceremony, Barnaby gives the deed to Ollie, who tears it up, but when Barnaby lifts the veil to kiss his bride, he finds Stannie, not Bo-Peep. Ollie then arrives with the bride, who is demurely covered with a heavy veil, and the wedding commences. As Ollie laments having to give Bo-Peep away, Widow Peep goes to Barnaby's house to plead for mercy, which he refuses to give. ![]() Soon after, Bo-Peep and her mother are sadly waiting with Stannie and Ollie for the wedding ceremony to begin. Ollie's dignity is dampened by the ducking, but he and Stannie are saved from banishment by Bo-Peep, who agrees to marry Barnaby if he drops the charges and allows her mother to move back into the shoe. The boys intend to steal the deed while Barnaby sleeps, but he discovers their ruse, and the next day, Old King Cole proclaims that the would-be thieves are to be ducked in the pond and permanently banished to Bogeyland. Unable to pay Barnaby, the boys resolve to obtain the deed to the shoe, and so, that night, Ollie hides in a box that Stannie takes to Barnaby as a Christmas present. The enraged Toymaker fires them and they return home just as Barnaby is again threatening Bo-Peep and her mother. ![]() Instead of the 600 one-foot tall toy soldiers that Santa needs, the boys told the toymakers to build 100 six-foot tall soldiers. After they arrive at work, however, their hopes for a loan are dashed when it is discovered that they made a mistake in an order for Santa Claus. Desperate for money to pay off her mortgage, Widow Peep asks for help from her well-meaning but simple lodgers, Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee, who assure her that they can borrow the money from their employer, the Toymaker. ![]() The widow refuses his demand, much to the relief of Bo-Peep, who is in love with handsome Tom-Tom Piper. In the village of Toyland, evil old Silas Barnaby threatens to evict the Widow Peep, who lives in a shoe, unless she allows him to marry her daughter Bo-Peep.
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