description Block-Heads Overview
Block-Heads is a 1938 comedy directed by John G. Blystone, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The film adapts material from earlier Laurel & Hardy shorts, “We Faw Down” and “Unaccustomed As We Are,” produced by Hal Roach Studios for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It marked Hal Roach’s last production with MGM.
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info Block-Heads Specifications
| Country | United States |
| Year | 1938 |
help Block-Heads FAQ
Why is Stan Laurel's character still guarding a trench in Block-Heads?
Stan has never learned that World War I ended and remains at his post for 20 years. Oliver finds him in 1938 and brings him home, where their reunion quickly becomes a chain of domestic disasters.
Who directed Block-Heads?
John G. Blystone directed the 1938 Laurel and Hardy comedy. Hal Roach Studios produced it, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer handling distribution.
Does Block-Heads reuse material from earlier Laurel and Hardy films?
Yes. The feature reworks situations from shorts including We Faw Down and Unaccustomed As We Are, expanding familiar marital and apartment-building chaos into a longer story.
Is Block-Heads a war film or a domestic comedy?
Its opening uses a World War I premise, but most of the movie is a Laurel and Hardy domestic farce set in 1938. The war setup explains Stan's 20-year absence rather than driving a conventional combat story.
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