The Bullfighters
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's final Hollywood movie. According to L&H biographer Scott MacGillivray, 20th Century-Fox offered to keep its "B" movie department open for the pair, but they declined to do any more movies for Fox.,After being kissed by an admirer who'd mistook him for Don Sebastian, Stan faints, folding his arms as he is falling so that an off-screen stage hand can grab him at the elbows to break his fall.,Stanley Laurel: I don't want to fight any bulls, I don't like bulls,
[high-pitched-crying]
Stanley Laurel: I'm allergic to bulls!,Edited from Blood and Sand (1941),Rock-a-Bye Baby
(1886) (uncredited)
Music by Effie I. Canning
In the score at a bar scene,Of course, this Laurel & Hardy feature is not another "Way Out West" (1937), but it's still worth watching. Their final Hollywood picture is far better than the other Fox and MGM products that the Boys did in the forties. Despite some boring sequences there is much more room for comedy - and Laurel & Hardy know to use it. Even Stan's make-up, which he was forced to change in the former Fox movies and that made him look much older, resembles his appearance in the old Roach days. One may wonder why producers in the forties after this movie did not realize, that these two genuine clowns had still the power to carry a whole picture. It's always sad to think of the fact, that there was only one more Laurel & Hardy film to be done after "The Bullfighters".,