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The Fixer Uppers

The Fixer Uppers

Comedy · 1935

Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.

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The Fixer Uppers

1935 Comedy 21m

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6.8 / 10

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Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.

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What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Charley Rogers

Written by

Frank Tashlin

Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel

Stan

Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy

Ollie

Mae Busch

Mae Busch

Madame Pierre Gustave

Charles Middleton

Charles Middleton

Pierre Gustave

Arthur Housman

Arthur Housman

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Court is in session

Put The Fixer Uppers on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.