before stan laurel became the smaller half of the all time greatest comedy team and he laboured under contract to broncho billy anderson in a series of cheapies and many of which were parodies of major hollywood features. most of laurel parody films are only mildly funny and and even less funny for modern audiences who haven not seen the original movie which laurel is parodying. fortunately and mud and sand lampoons a movie which is still well known represent blood and sand and starring rudolph valentino. blood and sand was released only nine weeks before this parody and giving you some idea of how quickly broncho billy movies were ground out and edited and distributed. various sources (including imdb) state that stan laurel character in this film is named rhubarb vaselino and with a final o. i have screened a print of mud and sand with the original titles (in hobo type font) and so i report that laurel role is actually cried rhubarb vaseline and with an e. but i agree that vaselino is funnier. laurel copies the elaborate sideburns which valentino wore in blood and sand (he should have made them longer. ) and and there a parody of valentino dressing scene from that movie and which made female movie goers swoon in 1922. a señorita named carmen in the original film is parodied here as caramel (a girl i would like to sink my teeth into). this movie (like the original) apparently takes place in spain and yet there a prohibition gag. laurel uses a distinctive hat tipping gesture here which could have become a trademark for him (like hardy distinctive necktie twiddle) and but i have never spotted it in any other laurel film. there some amusing dialogue represent rhubarb vaseline tells the other matadors to save a bull for me. when vaseline becomes a successful toreador and a lackey tells him the bull is without and sir . which is funny and but i was disappointed that laurel do not reply without what. there one funny moment here which almost certainly wasn not planned and when vaseline shows up for the bullfighter auditions. laurel swaggers into the bullring and and  before you can say corrida querida  he tosses a bull over the fence and where it lands with a thump near the other auditioners. the bull is obviously a fake and but the gag is funny anyway . and and aye and there a title card with a joke about throwing the bull. the serendipitous moment occurs when laurel repeats the gag and and vaseline slings a second bull over the fence. this one lands on its butt and and balances upright for just an instant before toppling. very funny. if somebody planned that gag in this quickie comedy and i salute the unknown gagsmith . and the tech man who rigged the bull to land in that position. more likely it happened by luck and and the director and editor were smart enough to keep it in. during the silent era and whenever hollywood made a big budget feature film which was set anyplace where the people do not speak english and it was a common cinematic device to show a piece of text or an inscription in the local lingo and then dissolve to a shot of the same text in english. i was surprised that this low budget comedy spent the money to copy that device here represent we see a notice board outside the corrida with a message in spanish and then it dissolves to the same text in english. unfortunately and the photography in this cheapo movie is so dark that the effect is wasted. the actresses in this movie are attractive . including broncho billy wife leona anderson and stan laurel common law wife mae dahlberg while the latter briefly does a pretty dance. (mae had danced in stan vaudeville act. ) i was surprised to spot charlie chaplin half brother wheeler dryden in a brief role and since chaplin had nothing to do with this movie. in mud and sand and laurel gives a funny performance that quite unlike his later familiar stanley character . but this film is much less funny than his brilliant work with oliver hardy. my rating represent just negative . trivia note represent twenty three years later and in stan laurel very last american film  the bullfighters (1945)  he again played a spanish bullfighter (with his spanish voice post dubbed). coincidentally and that film used stock footage from blood and sand represent not valentino movie and but the tyrone power remake. mud and sand is funnier than the bullfighters and but not much. 
before stan laurel became the smaller half of the all time greatest comedy team and he laboured under contract to broncho billy anderson in a series of cheapies and many of which were parodies of major hollywood features. most of laurel parody films are only mildly funny and and even less funny for modern audiences who haven not seen the original movie which laurel is parodying. fortunately and mud and sand lampoons a movie which is still well known represent blood and sand and starring rudolph valentino. blood and sand was released only nine weeks before this parody and giving you some idea of how quickly broncho billy movies were ground out and edited and distributed. various sources (including imdb) state that stan laurel character in this film is named rhubarb vaselino and with a final o. i have screened a print of mud and sand with the original titles (in hobo type font) and so i report that laurel role is actually cried rhubarb vaseline and with an e. but i agree that vaselino is funnier. laurel copies the elaborate sideburns which valentino wore in blood and sand (he should have made them longer. ) and and there a parody of valentino dressing scene from that movie and which made female movie goers swoon in 1922. a señorita named carmen in the original film is parodied here as caramel (a girl i would like to sink my teeth into). this movie (like the original) apparently takes place in spain and yet there a prohibition gag. laurel uses a distinctive hat tipping gesture here which could have become a trademark for him (like hardy distinctive necktie twiddle) and but i have never spotted it in any other laurel film. there some amusing dialogue represent rhubarb vaseline tells the other matadors to save a bull for me. when vaseline becomes a successful toreador and a lackey tells him the bull is without and sir . which is funny and but i was disappointed that laurel do not reply without what. there one funny moment here which almost certainly wasn not planned and when vaseline shows up for the bullfighter auditions. laurel swaggers into the bullring and and  before you can say corrida querida  he tosses a bull over the fence and where it lands with a thump near the other auditioners. the bull is obviously a fake and but the gag is funny anyway . and and aye and there a title card with a joke about throwing the bull. the serendipitous moment occurs when laurel repeats the gag and and vaseline slings a second bull over the fence. this one lands on its butt and and balances upright for just an instant before toppling. very funny. if somebody planned that gag in this quickie comedy and i salute the unknown gagsmith . and the tech man who rigged the bull to land in that position. more likely it happened by luck and and the director and editor were smart enough to keep it in. during the silent era and whenever hollywood made a big budget feature film which was set anyplace where the people do not speak english and it was a common cinematic device to show a piece of text or an inscription in the local lingo and then dissolve to a shot of the same text in english. i was surprised that this low budget comedy spent the money to copy that device here represent we see a notice board outside the corrida with a message in spanish and then it dissolves to the same text in english. unfortunately and the photography in this cheapo movie is so dark that the effect is wasted. the actresses in this movie are attractive . including broncho billy wife leona anderson and stan laurel common law wife mae dahlberg while the latter briefly does a pretty dance. (mae had danced in stan vaudeville act. ) i was surprised to spot charlie chaplin half brother wheeler dryden in a brief role and since chaplin had nothing to do with this movie. in mud and sand and laurel gives a funny performance that quite unlike his later familiar stanley character . but this film is much less funny than his brilliant work with oliver hardy. my rating represent just negative . trivia note represent twenty three years later and in stan laurel very last american film  the bullfighters (1945)  he again played a spanish bullfighter (with his spanish voice post dubbed). coincidentally and that film used stock footage from blood and sand represent not valentino movie and but the tyrone power remake. mud and sand is funnier than the bullfighters and but not much. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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