USA
Short Film
Directors: James W. Horne
Writer: H.M. Walker
Cinematographer: George Stevens
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Tiny Sandford
When a pair of door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen prove themselves unable to leave the home of an uninterested customer without getting something stuck in the door – coat, Christmas tree, etc. – a squabble erupts, quickly escalating into an orgy of reciprocal, tit-for-tat violence and destruction, which soon sees his house and their car torn to pieces, in Laurel and Hardy’s hilarious short film, their finest silent production, rich in allegorical potential. Iain.Stott
