Oliver Hardy in his final solo screen appearance, “Riding High” (1950). In his biography of Hardy, “Babe”, John McCabe describes Hardy’s performance thusly: "This is not Ollie. There is no time in the film for this individual to become anyone." I disagree. I see this individual as a bizarro-world twist on Ollie – that is, Ollie without Stan. The Ollie of the first reel of “Block-Heads”. An Ollie who, minus Stan, is afraid to stand up to the missus and seems a little bit lost at sea. Watch the sc

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