{"id":3532,"date":"2025-08-28T22:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:11:05","slug":"walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-sons-of-the-desert-and-william-seiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/28\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-sons-of-the-desert-and-william-seiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movie Adventures: Sons of the Desert and William Seiter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sons-of-the-desert-1.jpg\" alt=\"Oliver Hardy &amp; Stan Laurel in Sons of the Desert.\" class=\"wp-image-3536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sons-of-the-desert-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sons-of-the-desert-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sons-of-the-desert-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sons-of-the-desert-banner-min.jpg\" alt=\"Oliver Hardy &amp; Stan Laurel in Sons of the Desert.\" class=\"wp-image-3534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sons-of-the-desert-banner-min.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sons-of-the-desert-banner-min-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sons-of-the-desert-banner-min-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve never watched Laurel &amp; hardy, but based on this movie, this seems to be the formula for most of their comedy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ollie acts like a blowhard.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stan does an absurd and funny thing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ollie slowly and exactly describes the thing Stan just did.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ollie mugs to the camera.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Repeat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you tell which one I thought was funnier?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/william-seiter.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of William Seiter's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of William Seiter.\" class=\"wp-image-3535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/william-seiter.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/william-seiter-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/william-seiter-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Seiter&#8217;s Wikipedia entry says &#8220;Seiter earned a reputation for his charming comedies that were moderately paced and kept the laughs coming quietly, rather than resorting to obvious jokes and slapstick.&#8221; He must have abandoned that for this movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;and now it&#8217;s time for another &#8220;you&#8217;ll only know the reference if you&#8217;re a movie poster fanatic&#8221; fake poster!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sons-of-the-Desert-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Sons of the Desert mimicking the poster for Dog Day Afternoon.\" class=\"wp-image-3533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sons-of-the-Desert-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sons-of-the-Desert-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sons-of-the-Desert-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sons-of-the-Desert.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurel>>>>Hardy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[302,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-comedy","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}