before stan laurel become the small half of the all time great comedy team and he labour under contract to broncho billy anderson in a series of cheapies and many of which be parody of major hollywood feature . most of laurel parody film be only mildly funny and and even less funny for modern audience who haven not see the original movie which laurel be parody . fortunately and mud and sand lampoon a movie which be still well know represent blood and sand and star rudolph valentino . blood and sand be release only nine week before this parody and give you some idea of how quickly broncho billy movie be grind out and edited and distribute . various source ( include imdb ) state that stan laurel character in this film be name rhubarb vaselino and with a final o. i have screen a print of mud and sand with the original title ( in hobo type font ) and so i report that laurel role be actually cry rhubarb vaseline and with an e. but i agree that vaselino be funny . laurel copy the elaborate sideburn which valentino wore in blood and sand ( he should have make them longer . ) and and there a parody of valentino dress scene from that movie and which make female movie goer swoon in 1922. a señorita name carmen in the original film be parody here a caramel ( a girl i would like to sink my teeth into ) . this movie ( like the original ) apparently take place in spain and yet there a prohibition gag . laurel use a distinctive hat tip gesture here which could have become a trademark for him ( like hardy distinctive necktie twiddle ) and but i have never spot it in any other laurel film . there some amuse dialogue represent rhubarb vaseline tell the other matador to save a bull for me . when vaseline become a successful toreador and a lackey tell him the bull be without and sir . which be funny and but i be disappoint that laurel do not reply without what . there one funny moment here which almost certainly wasn not plan and when vaseline show up for the bullfighter audition . laurel swagger into the bullring and and before you can say corrida querida he toss a bull over the fence and where it land with a thump near the other auditioners . the bull be obviously a fake and but the gag be funny anyway . and and aye and there a title card with a joke about throw the bull . the serendipitous moment occur when laurel repeat the gag and and vaseline sling a second bull over the fence . this one land on it butt and and balance upright for just an instant before topple . very funny . if somebody plan that gag in this quickie comedy and i salute the unknown gagsmith . and the tech man who rig the bull to land in that position . more likely it happen by luck and and the director and editor be smart enough to keep it in . during the silent era and whenever hollywood make a big budget feature film which be set anyplace where the people do not speak english and it be 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 be surprise that this low budget comedy spend the money to copy that device here represent we see a notice board outside the corrida with a message in spanish and then it dissolve to the same text in english . unfortunately and the photography in this cheapo movie be so dark that the effect be waste . the actress in this movie be attractive . include broncho billy wife leona anderson and stan laurel common law wife mae dahlberg while the latter briefly do a pretty dance . ( mae have dance in stan vaudeville act . ) i be surprise to spot charlie chaplin half brother wheeler dryden in a brief role and since chaplin have nothing to do with this movie . in mud and sand and laurel give a funny performance that quite unlike his later familiar stanley character . but this film be much less funny than his brilliant work with oliver hardy . my rating represent just negative . trivia note represent twenty three year later and in stan laurel very last american film the bullfighter ( 1945 ) he again play a spanish bullfighter ( with his spanish voice post dub ) . coincidentally and that film use stock footage from blood and sand represent not valentino movie and but the tyrone power remake . mud and sand be funny than the bullfighter and but not much .