InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

mark.waltz Laurel is concerned for the bed-bound hospital patient Oliver, suffering from a broken leg. If he really thought it through, he'd show his concern by staying away, not showing up with a paper bag and proclaiming his gift in the most delightful way. But hard boiled eggs and nuts are not the equivalent to a spoonful of sugar, and before you can say, "Another Fine Mess!", Oliver's in more danger than just risking another broken leg. He's hanging out of the hospital window, and Laurel is panicking in order to try and save him. This is certainly one of the boy's funniest shorts, up there with "Brats" and "Twice Two", if not the award winning quality of "The Music Box". You can see why that in the early 1930's, Laurel and Hardy were at the top of their game, going from silent to sound, from shorts to features, and having a career that refused to give up the ghost long after they needed to step back and take a breather. The comparisons to Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton visual comedy is obvious here, but its still very funny, and the innocent charm of these two clowns make their comedy timeless today more than 80 years later.

naseby This short shows the confined area to which it was, namely that poor Ollie actually enjoys the peace and quiet, never mind his broken foot, in his bed of pain at the County Hospital. Stan 'decides' to visit him,as 'he's nothing better to do!' That's the sarcastic line Ollie gives back to him, after he leaves Ollie's peace in tatters, assaults the doctor's dignity and almost kills him, cuts up another patient's trousers and brings Ollie 'hard boiled eggs and nuts' instead of candy or fruit etc. "You didn't pay me for the last box I brought you." says Stan after Ollie's enquiry why he didn't bring the candy!Altogether,it was one of their shorts that had a thin-ish outline, but was filled fairly well considering. It had the odd finale of Stan sitting on a syringe/sedative intended for another patient. The nurses casually mention to themselves in fits of laughter, that Stan will sleep for a month. Strangely not telling him in Hollywood licence style - so of course, when Ollie is prematurely struck off (Because Stan has wrecked the place) the latter drives him home, well almost - sleeping at the wheel, swerving and near-missing everything. It ends with their car bent round in a semi-circle shape, as a policeman tells them to pull over. They can't as because of the shape of the car, it drives around in a circle!As I say, a shallow type of tale, with Stan visiting Ollie in hospital, but nonetheless, it delivers the calamitous Stan in the style we knew was coming Ollie's way!

Lee Eisenberg OK, so the whole sequence on the street is obviously superimposed. Focus only on that and you'll miss the great stunts in the rest of "County Hospital". I'm surprised that Laurel and Hardy were able to keep straight faces during the whole sequence in the hospital room. It's the sort of situation where if you blink, you'll miss a whole lot.I read about how, whenever something embarrassing befalls Laurel and Hardy, Hardy's downfall is greater, as he's supposed to be the smart one of the two. Such is certainly the case here. One can see how their antics may have influenced Gilligan and the Skipper. A comedy classic; that is to say, another hilarious mess that they got themselves into.

gazzo-2 I don't see why others haven't rated this one as high as say, Busy Bodies or whatever. It's great! Ollie in the hospital bed does his usual slow burn routine to a T, Laurel is pretty fun as the unlikely catalyst for disaster, Billy Gilbert overacts horribly as the Dr. who winds up hanging outside the window, etc you know the drill.Loved the drive home--someone complained that the rear-screen projection stunk? Really? I thought it looked quite good Especially for something from 1932. The vaunted Bank Dick chase w/ W C Fields for example wasn't honestly much better, and that came c. 1941 ya know? Check this one out. There's not much to it but it's enjoyable.*** outta ****