The Big Noise
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| The Big Noise | |
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 Theatrical poster for The Big Noise (1944) |
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| Directed by | Malcolm St. Clair |
| Produced by | Sol M. Wurtzel |
| Written by | Scott Darling |
| Starring | Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Doris Merrick Arthur Space Veda Ann Borg Robert Blake Frank Fenton James Bush |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
| Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald |
| Editing by | Norman Colbert |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | September 22, 1944 |
| Running time | 74 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Big Noise, released in 1944 and directed by Mal St.Clair, was one of the feature films Laurel and Hardy made at 20th Century Fox after they had left Hal Roach four years earlier. One of the team's poorest films, it gained an entry into the notorious book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time in the late 1970s. It isn't actually quite as bad as that, though the most incisive criticism of the film was made by Stan Laurel himself in a reply to a fan letter: 'Note you saw the film THE BIG NOISE recently... NUFF SAID!!!'. Most L&H fans have certainly agreed.
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When it was released, this movie created a stir in the US War Department which caused the FBI to investigate everyone involved with the production. In the film, "The Big Noise" was the name of a new kind of bomb that could destroy an entire city; a year later, the US Army Air Corps destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the atomic bomb. No evidence was ever found linking the film to the Manhattan Project, the similarities being chalked up to coincidence.
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