 Penelope gets her own bird-size uniform and all the boys participate in a military parade together, while the aunts and Ginger watch.The first of Laurel and Hardy's post-Hal Roach features, "Great Guns" is generally regarded as the start of the team's decline, since they were given unsuitable, out-of-character scripts to work with, and very little artistic freedom.At Hal Roach Studios, Stan Laurel looked on such creativity behind as well as in front of the camera as routine, but 20th Century Fox did not allow such luxuries.