

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
Practical Effects
Giant wooden soldiers that probably gave kids actual nightmares.
Acting
Brandon's Barnaby: pure theatrical malice in tights.
Production
Toyland sets so elaborate they feel accidentally psychedelic.

Director
Gus Meins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The wooden soldiers were reused in Disney's 'Babes in Toyland' (1961) after Stan Laurel himself suggested the remake to Walt Disney.
This 1934 version is darker than the Victor Herbert operetta it's based on—Barnaby's forced-marriage plot and the Bogeymen sequence pushed family-film boundaries for the era.
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