Hal roach laurel and hardy collection
MURDER IN THE AIR Classic Shorts (198 minutes)Ī collection of classic Laurel & Hardy shorts with the overall theme of murder, including one of their few surviving foreign-language editions plus the English version of a film incorporated into it. They Go Boom! is about Stan’s attempts to care for Ollie when he catches a cold, a position reversed when Ollie tries to cure Stan’s toothache in Leave ‘Em Laughing. In Perfect Day it’s Edgar Kennedy’s turn to suffer gout, a condition aggravated by Stan and Ollie’s attempt to organise a family picnic. Them Thar Hills sees Ollie suffering from gout, prompting a trip into the mountains, while its sequel Tit For Tat shows what happened after their return. In County Hospital Ollie’s broken leg offers him a chance to rest, which he does until Stan pays him a visit. SOMEONE’S AILING Classic Shorts (196 minutes)Ī collection of classic Laurel & Hardy shorts on the theme of ailments, plus the only example of a direct sequel in L&H history.
Hardy, while in Me and My Pal Ollie’s wedding day is disrupted when Stan arrives with a jigsaw puzzle. Helpmates, one of the team’s best short comedies, sees Stan and Ollie trying to clean up the residue of a wild party before the return of Mrs. Our Wife centres around his attempts to elope with his beloved `Dulcy’, with assistance from Stan as the Best Man.
OLLIE AND MATRIMONY Classic Shorts (193 minutes)Ī collection of classic Laurel & Hardy shorts based on the misadventures of Oliver Hardy before, during, after or instead of getting married! In Beau Hunks a failed romance prompts Ollie to join the Foreign Legion, taking Stan with him. Also included are two classic shorts employing a similar dual-identity motif, Brats – in which they play their own small sons – and Twice Two, introducing us to Stan and Ollie’s twin sisters! Clever editing and optical work create the illusion of two sets of Laurel & Hardy, with confusion arising between Stan and Ollie and their identical twins, Alf and Bert. OUR RELATIONS And ‘Dual Roles’ Shorts (215 minutes)Īmong the full-length Laurel & Hardy films, Our Relations is one of the most polished and perhaps the most ingenious. Laurel could disrupt the home life of Mr. Another take on military life is presented in the early silent With Love and Hisses, while another classic silent, Should Married Men Go Home?, demonstrates once again how Mr. In World War One, Stan is left to guard a trench only to be discovered – still at his post – twenty years after the war! Also included is L&H’s very first talkie, Unaccustomed As We Are, a 1929 two-reeler from which Block-Heads drew much of its inspiration. A great favourite among Laurel & Hardy admirers, Finlayson is featured elsewhere in this compilation through the classic L&H shorts One Good Turn and Thicker Than Water.īLOCK-HEADS And Related Shorts (194 minutes)īlock-Heads is one of the most popular Laurel & Hardy feature films.
Regarded as the most popular of Laurel & Hardy’s feature-length films – not least for the song The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - Way Out West sees Stan and Ollie visiting the town of Brushwood Gulch to deliver the deed of a gold mine, only to be deceived by James Finlayson, playing a villainous saloon-keeper. WAY OUT WEST Plus Shorts Featuring James Finlayson (207 minutes) One of Laurel & Hardy’s best-loved feature films, A Chump at Oxford sees them travelling to England to obtain an education, only for Stan to be revealed as a long-lost British aristocrat! Also included is the classic silent comedy From Soup To Nuts, which the team remade as a section of A Chump at Oxford – only with Stan switching his character to that of `Agnes’, the maid! Also in this compilation is an earlier glimpse of `Agnes’ in one of their greatest talkie shorts, Another Fine Mess.