Nonureva Really Surprised!

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Executscan Expected more

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

beauzee 2 of my 3 stars are for the somewhat under-appreciated first half, no guffaws, just a few chuckles here and there, but my case-in-point: there's actually an in-character sequence on a train in which they are tricked into buying a "money making machine" - Ollie does a very nice, albeit short,soliloqy on the meaning of benevolence, esp. in hard times.plus, there is no romantic subplot, no sentimentality whatsoever.I actually like this bizarre deal better than the more "accessible", more "Hollywood" GREAT GUNS, which preceded it on the sorry L & H Fox series, which went on for years. GUNS was a little funnier but HAUNTING has a credible storyline. pretty much.yes, they were tricked during the train ride to deliver the supposedly empty coffin and now, on stage with Dante The Magician, they wind up as part of *his* lame-O tricks. by that point, your head will be spinning..not from being dazzled by great magic tricks or L & H zaniness but by simple fatigue.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- A Haunting We Will Go, 1942, 'The Boys' get innocently involved with some crooks and con-men. They have to get 'out of town' and do it while escorting a coffin to another town by rail for money. This job becomes a shady way a gang of crooks take advantage of the new townspeople with another 'con'.*Special Stars- Laurel and Hardy, Dick Lane, Elisha Cook Jr. "Dante the Magician".*Theme- Spooky things happen around stage magicians and crooks.*Trivia/location/goofs- Dante the Magician was doing street magic and got cast in this film. This Columbia Studios film was one that was considered a 'lesser' Larual and Hardy comedy due to not be made at Hal Roach Studios.*Emotion- A quite different film due to its director's serious premise of this being a mystery film instead of a Laurel and Hardy comedy. It lacks some of the classic comedy plot and on camera antics because the writers didn't know what worked for this great comedy duo. Still good to enjoy.

Boba_Fett1138 This movie is like all Laurel & Hardy's '40's movies; Too much talking and not enough slapstick. And has an overwritten story and it relies too much on the script, rather than on Laurel & Hardy's antics and talent. Yes of course they get some slapstick to do but it doesn't feel as anything new or truly great, though the movie certainly does have its moments, which help to make this movie worthwhile.The story is rather weak but above all really uninteresting. The title is deceiving and certainly has nothing to do with the movie.Dante, a magician from the 20th century is in the movie too but you can wonder why. Seems like just a publicity stunt for both parties to me, since it doesn't serve a too big significant purpose for the main plot-line of the movie.Not that this movie is bad but by Laurel & Hardy standards it still is a rather weak and bad one, that really isn't among their best work.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

JoeKarlosi First things first - this is not a "horror-comedy" as I presumed it would be by the title. I mean, even the opening credits have the name of the film in ghoulish lettering along with the spooky image of a ghost leering down at Stan and Ollie, for crying out loud! But getting past that -- this is one of those oft-despised latter day "Fox films" that the aging team of Laurel and Hardy made after their greatest works at Hal Roach Studios. It's not as "heinous" as most critics make it out to be, but it's not one of their better forties movies either. In this one, the "boys" get released from a stay in jail and are told to leave town. So they meet up with a group of swindling crooks (one of them is played by a very young Elisha Cook Jr.) who need their help in traveling to Dayton, Ohio. The dopey plot is all over the place, but along the way there are some small chuckles to be had (the hitchhiking fiasco, the "Inflato" machine duping) and a few mildly cute slapstick gags. But things sink as the film goes on and "Dante the Magician" takes up too much screen time (he's even top billed along with Laurel and Hardy!) ** out of ****