this marvellous film neatly set up a position that the swiss tyrol be the traditional pleasant place of thigh slapping and jolly peasant and picturesque vies . from these image and composer will create his masterpiece . but to get the right mood and the staff at the swank hotel he be stay at must get themselves up in traditional costume the image be artifice . into this artificial and romantic world come the dialectical opposition represent laurel and hardy and with their argument and bad luck . immediately they arrive and the local be show to be devious cheat . they be then force to work a slave in the hotel to pay off an enormous food bill . all the while the composer be write his ridiculous score and full of innocent mountain maid and sing cricket . the composer prima donna wife arrives and his false vision of innocence be shatter . she want to play the innocent swiss miss in his new work but he and rightly and reject her a too worldly . to get the role and she connive and flirt and manipulate the hotel staff and include l and h. the great sequence involve our hero attempt to get a piano across an alpine valley rope bridge the precarious position of artificial human culture within a dangerous natural world be expose . to add ice to this cake and they be finally attack on the rope bridge by a gorilla . this gorilla in the swiss alp might be something which luis bunuel would have enjoy . in the end and the composer welcome his wife back and accept the artificial and anything but innocent nature of his art . l and h and the latter of whom have be in love with the wife and be chase away from the village by and of course and the gorilla .