
The large 3-sheet poster, the size of a door, as displayed beautifully in many movie palaces and neighborhood houses across the land. Where is just one of these today? Theatre poster art for Hal Roach releases was created at the direction of M-G-M, obviously seldom attentive to accurate running times. They insisted on pegging Roach features at 90 minutes. Um, no. While not a capital offense, BLOCK-HEADS ran but 58 minutes "of happiness and hi-jinks."