The previous film Laurel and Hardy appeared in(DUCK SOUP)had them remarkably as a team from beginning to end despite only being their second film at Hal Roach.The boys do share scenes again in SLIPPING WIVES,but this time as hated enemies.These work well enough,but the film has the flaw that mars all these very early L&H efforts;too frantic a pace.There are only very feint traces of the familiar later Laurel and Hardy characteristics on view,and fading silent stars Priscilla Dean and Herbert Rawlinson take the lead roles.SLIPPING WIVES was reworked into one of Stan and Ollie's final short films,THE FIXER UPPERS(1935).
Review of Slipping Wives
