The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.
The film is built on one idea that it keeps restaging: two men, a long staircase and a piano that refuses to go up. The pace is unhurried, each gag is set up patiently, and the humor comes from stubbornness, bad luck and politeness amid chaos. Little dialogue, a lot of physical timing.
Good for you if you enjoy slapstick from the silent and early sound era and never tire of short, simply built gags.
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