The Bohemian Girl is a mess. They say that Hal Roach re-edited it after Thelma Todd's tragic death, so Miss Todd wouldn't be seen. So they changed the story, and now it is the adulterous wife of Oliver Hardy who precipitates the so-called story. Finlayson is wasted. The best sequence (the only funny one) is left to Laurel alone. The staging is theatrical and so is the singing. More melodrama and gypsy clisés than real comedy. As a longtime fan of Laurel & Hardy I felt as sorry for them as when I watch the miserable movies they made at Fox when they were at the verge of old age.
Review of The Bohemian Girl
