Silent short - Laurel is an animal lover who takes up with a stray dog after getting kicked out of a boarding house. Hardy plays a thief who is trying to rob Laurel, who has no money.
A compilation of primarly Laurel and Hardy shorts---From Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting the Pants on Philip, The Finishing Touch, Sugar Daddies and short clips from others---plus Max Davidson's Call of the Cuckoo and Dumb Daddies, with some cross-over Charley Chase footage, which, along with Robert Youngson's previous "The Golden Age of Comedy", "When Comedy Was King", "Days of Thrills and Laughter", led to a renewed interest in and a revival of television showings of Laurel and Hardy shorts. The cast was billed in order of their appearance: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Vivien Oakland (with a Vivian typo), Glen Tyron, Edna Murphy, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sanford, Jimmy Finlayson, Charlie Chase, Viola Richard, Max Davidson, Del Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Anders Randolf (as Anders Randolph), Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Lillian Elliott and "Spec" O'Donnell.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy must take a 45-minute train ride to Hollywood in order to make a payment on their house. When they get there the star-struck pair mistake a bank robbery as a movie set and get themselves into hot water.
Silent Short featuring only Stan Laurel - After being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son 24 hours to find an even more scandalous story about the countess. After spending the night in the wrong street looking for the wrong countess, he comes up with a plan: the butler will be seen in a comprimising situation with the countess, and then photographed. The countess, who is sick of reporters, has other ideas
Silent Short Featuring only Stan Laurel.
Silent Short - A divorced woman is set to receive $100,000 and quarts of diamonds from her divorce-disapproving aunt. Having taken in her first husband as a lodger, due to financial difficulties, and now living with her second husband, she must act to convince her aunt, that she is still married to her first husband, which is not taken gracefully by her second husband.
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. He asks his valet, to put a small postscript on his letter of introduction, stating that he's crazy and has sometimes (at least six times a day) crazy spells. To try this he uses an innocent victim, who promptly phones the insane asylum, that one of their patients is on the loose. At his future parents-in-law's home he acts crazy, till the moment he finds out, who the intended bride really is. Her completely shocked father asks the family doctor about how to behave with a lunatic and receives the advice to act crazy herself, follows it, and is promptly taken to the insane asylum.
Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy are hiding out in a vacant house when prospective renters come for a tour. They must act quickly so Oliver pretends to be the owner and Stanley pretends to be a servant.
Silent Short - Laurel is asked to give up his handyman job to attend a party. The woman that is hiring him needs him to pretend to be a well-to-do man and flirt with her to make her husband jealous.
Silent Short - A businessman is being blackmailed and asks Stanley for help.
Silent Short - Stan plays a sailor whose girlfriend gets kidnapped by a sea captain. He dresses up as a woman to try and distract the captain so he can get his girlfriend back. The captain's wife sees what is going on and is not the least bit pleased.
The boys are part of an Army Reserve group, headed for a weekend camp. Sergeant Banner (Hardy) gets in trouble with Captain Bustle (James Finlayson) by flirting with Bustle's two female companions. Private Cuthbert Hope (Laurel) is also on the train, causing trouble. While going through their exercises at their destination, the men pause to bathe in a lake. Hope is supposed to watch their clothing, but instead he joins them. Banner tosses away his cigarette, which completely burns up everyone's outfits. Bustle's ladies happen by, and the naked platoon are forced to hide behind a billboard and have to somehow get back to camp. On the way, they knock over a hornet's nest, resulting in a title card reading, "All's well that ends swell," and a final shot showing the men from the back, their behinds swollen to preposterous proportions.
Silent Short - Stanley plays the lawyer of a rich oil tycoon that had become married acidentally. Stan must find a way out for his client.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy discover a con man on a cruise ship and must find a way to foil his plans.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy play convicts trying to dig a tunnel out of prison but wind up in the warden's office.
Silent Short - Stan plays the lawyer of a man headed to divorce court.
Silent Short - A man has problems with his new house that is located next to an insane asylum.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy get jobs selling washing machines door-to-door for the Kwickway Washing Machine Co.
Silent Short - Laurel & Hardy are hired as bodyguards for a judge whose life is threatened by an escaped prisoner.
Silent Short - Hardy meets Laurel who plays his nephew visiting from Scotland. Hardy is outraged when he arrives in a kilt and takes him to get a new pair of pants.
Silent Short - Laurel is a fighter with Hardy as his manager. A big pie fight breaks out when a deliveryman slips on a banana peel.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy go to the dentist's office so Laurel can have a tooth pulled. The dentist accidentally pulls Hardy's tooth. Both guys are happy about this because of the laughing gas that they were given. They then proceed to cause a big traffic jam after running into a traffic cop.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy fight for the love of a woman in this Stone Age tale.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy are contracted to build a house in just a day. When they get it done birds land on the roof causing the house to start falling apart. The owner wants his money back and a big fight begins.
Silent Short - When a rich couple plans a big dinner party as they enter high society they have the misfortune of hiring Laurel and Hardy as their waiters.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy play goof-ball musicians in a local marching band.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy slip out of the house for some fun. When Stan tries to pay their tab he finds out that his wife has found and taken his stash of money. The boys need to find a way to pay up.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy find trouble on the golf course after getting kicked out of Oliver's house by Mrs Hardy.
Silent Short - Stan works for Ollie as a butler after Ollie receives a large inheritance.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy are a couple of sailors on leave from their ship. They decide to rent a car and take their girlfriends on a drive. Things are fine until they run into a traffic jam and all heck breaks loose.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy are hired by a mad scientist to keep him supplied with body parts from a local cemetary.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy trick their wives into letting them go to a poker game. They get involved with two young ladies and one of the ladies rather jealous boyfriend who happens to be a boxer.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy play escaped convicts. As they are escaping they put on new clothes but put on each other's pants by mistake. They continue to try and switch pants in several funny locations.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy get jobs as stable hands.
Silent Short - Oliver is about to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal. The only condition is that he be happily married. Mrs Hardy gets mad and walks out on Oliver just before Uncle Bernal stops for a visit. Oliver talks Stanley into dressing up like a woman a pretending to be Mrs. Hardy.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy get jobs selling Christmas trees. They spend most of the time fighting with their customers.
Sound Short - Ollie asks his friend Stan over for dinner. Mrs Hardy is not happy about the invitation and leaves the boys to fend for themselves. Their problems get bigger when Ollie's pretty neighbour volunteers to help out.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy get jobs in a fancy hotel and, as usual, find themselves in all kinds of trouble.
Sound Short - Stan and Ollie are musicians who cause all sorts of trouble on a train trip to their next performance.
Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy play sailors on shore leave. They have no money until Stanley wins the jackpot on a slot machine.
Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy decide it's a nice day to take their families on a picnic. One mishap after another threatens to ruin their plans.
Sound Short - Stanley plays Dr. and tries to cure Ollie's cold.
Silent Short - Laurel & Hardy are ordered to repossess a radio from the toughest man in town.
Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy are mistakenly arrested at a police raid and sent to a work camp where mayhem ensues.
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy attempt to sneak their pet goat into their apartment.
Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy are hired by a cop to pose as robbers, so he can arrest them and keep his job.
Bilingual and extended version of the film "Night Owls" (1930), filmed simultaneously with its predecessor for the Spanish market. Running time almost twice as long, this adaptation offers plenty of new gags and a different ending. Laurel & Hardy were coached by Spanish tutors and read some of their dialogue as written phonetically on blackboards off scene.
Sound Short - Stanley steals his wife's whiskey so he and Ollie can have a night on the town.
Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy have to baby sit their mischevious sons.
Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy are street musicians who find a lost wallet, not knowing it belongs to their policeman friend.
Russia, 1910. Yegor, a dashing (as well as singing) bandit leader meets Princess Vera at a mountain inn. They end up falling in love, but the relationship is shattered when Yegor kills Vera's brother, Prince Serge, for raping his sister, Nadja, and driving her to suicide. Yegor kidnaps Vera, forcing her to live a life of lowly servitude among the bandits. Vera manages to outwit Yegor, who's captured by soldiers and flogged. Vera begs Yegor's forgiveness. Although still in love with each other, they realize they cannot be together, at least for the time being.
Sound Short - Ollie must install a roof-top TV antenna before his wife will let him take off with his play Stanley.
Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy head to a haunted mansion to claim Stan's inheritance.
Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy take over the home of a big-game hunter that is on a safari in Africa. Problems arise when a realtor shows up with a couple that is wanting to rent the supposedly vacant house.
Ollie pretends to be sick so he and Stan can sneak away from their wives and go to a party.
Sound Short - An old flame threatens to blackmail Ollie and ruin his race for mayor.
Sound Short - Ollie's father-in-law-to-be is less than impressed with him making it necessary for an elopement.
Sound Short - Laurel & Hardy hide their pet dog in their apartment despite their landlord's objections.
Feature - Laurel and Hardy wind up in jail after they are caught making moon shine during Prohibition.
Sound Short - After Stan & Ollie save a girl from suicide, she follows them home, where they try to hide her from their wives.
Sound Short - Ollie gets dumped by his love, who has just sent him a rejection letter. So he decides to join the foreign legion and Stan must go with him. Once there they notice that almost every legionnaire, the commander and even the chief of the Arabs have a photo from Ollie’s former love and might be there for the same reason. In a sandstorm Stan and Ollie get separated from the others and lost. However, they reach to Fort where they are expected as reinforcements before everyone else. The finale battle against the Arabian Riffians starts. Stan and Ollie act clumsily at first, and by chance, figure out how to defeat the enemy…
Zazu and Thelma decide that they are too good for the local boys and Coney Island. They jump at the chance to go out with two English gentlemen only to find out they want to take them to Coney Island. While there, they have a run in with Laurel and Hardy.
Ollie gets Stan to help him clean up his house after a big party before his wife gets home.
Stan and Ollie take jobs on a whaling ship. To raise some money Stan becomes a prize fighter.
Laurel and Hardy start up a business as furniture movers. Their first job is moving a huge player piano up a long flight of steps.
After the circus where they work goes bankrupt, Stan & Ollie recieve trained gorilla Ethel as compensation.
Stan visits Ollie who is in the hospital recovering from a broken leg and causes all kinds of trouble.
Laurel & Hardy are ordered out of town by mean Judge Beaumont. On their way out of town they help a drunk find his car keys, and he takes them to what he believes is his home, although it actually belongs to the judge.
When their best friend is killed in the trenches in WW1, Stan and Ollie care for his daughter and attempt to locate her grandparents.
Stan convinces Ollie to adopt a baby and suprise his wife.
Laurel and Hardy try to increase their profit selling fish by fixing up an old boat to catch their own fish.
Laurel and Hardy fight with each other at work while their wives fight with each other at home. The boys are married to each other's sister and headed for home to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Stanley gets his pal Ollie a jigsaw puzzle for a wedding gift. Instead of heading to the wedding the pals start working on the puzzle. They are soon joined by the driver, the butler and others leaving Ollie's bride-to-be and future father-in-law rather upset at the church.
Feature - Laurel and Hardy become accomplices to the most feared bandit in all of 18th century Italy.
Rookie cops Laurel & Hardy are put on night duty and end up mistaking their chief for a burglar.
Laurel and Hardy have a few problems at their job at the wood shop.
A portrait photographer tries his best to capture the kids in some poses for a competition, but one of them (Spanky) is unco-operative when he is afraid to being 'shot' by the photographer.
Laurel and Hardy have more problems at work. This time they are hapless chimney sweeps.
Laurel and Hardy lie to their wives and sneak away to attend a lodge convention in Chicago.
Laurel and Hardy play owners of a barber shop that compete for the hand of a rich widow who has place a personal ad for a new husband.
The captain of a haunted ship gets Laurel and Hardy to help him snatch a new crew.
Laurel and Hardy testify against a convict and send him to prison for life. He soon escapes and comes looking for them.
Because of an illness Oliver gets advised to spend some time in the mountains. Once there, Stan and Ollie prepare a meal inside a trailer, of course doing the usual goof stuff. Later Mr and Mrs Hall (Charlie Hall, Mae Bush) appear there because they just run out of fuel. While Mr Hall goes back to his car, Mrs Hall stays with the boys. They drink water from a well, unknowing that a gang previously poured cheap liquor into the well, considering the strange taste because of the iron in it. When Mr Hall returns, noticing all of them, including his wife, drunk and singing, they start arguing.
In mythical Toyland, Laurel and Hardy try to prevent Mother Peep's house from being repossessed by evil Mr. Barnaby.
Laurel and Hardy appear at the door while the party is happening. They sold the lions to Baron Munchausen and he paid with a cheque for 50,000 tiddlywinks and they want the lions back. The doorman refuses them entry so they lock him out and go looking for the Baron. Stan and Ollie can't find the Baron and end up at a bar. At the bar Lupe Vélez has been refused another drink and she screams her displeasure. They have a classic tit-for-tat argument with eggs. The doorman spots Stan and Ollie and gives chase. They end up outside and release the lions.
Stan and Ollie run a store, they try to sell electrical stuff. After opening they go to introduce themselves to the neighbour, Charlie Hall who runs a grocery store. When his wife (Mae Bush) interrupts they notice that they know each other already (Them thar hills), Mrs Hall and Stanley repeat their favourite song from that recent encounter, she sings, he falls in with Pompom. Since Mr Hall remains still angry the three men start by the usual Tit-for-tat-mode destroying several items in each store. In the mean time a thief is removing items from Stan and Ollie’s store, starting with little things and getting bigger and bigger.
Failed greeting card salesmen Stan and Ollie are hired to romance a lonely wife and make her husband jealous.
Stan unintentionally causes much anger between Ollie and his wife, eventually forcing him to donate blood to Ollie with unexpected results.
Stan and Ollie head to Scotland to collect Stan's inheritance, but accidently enlist in the Scottish army and become stationed in India.
Stan and Ollie, who is also married, are in a gipsy bunch. The lover of Ollie’s wife (Mae Busch) gets caught in the property of a count and therefore whipped. Ollie’s wife seeks for revenge, captures the counts little daughter, introduces it to Ollie as his daughter, let the child with him and runs away with her lover. Fifteen years later, the girl (Julie Bishop) is grown up, the Gipsies are again near the count's castle…
Two pairs of long-lost twin brothers experience high jinks involving a valuable ring, cases of mistaken identity, and gangsters.
Laurel and Hardy are hired to deliver the deed to a gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector.
Pick a Star is a 1937 musical comedy film starring Rosina Lawrence, Jack Haley, Patsy Kelly and Mischa Auer, directed by Edward Sedgwick, produced by Hal Roach, and released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is mostly remembered now for two short scenes featuring Laurel and Hardy.
Opposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice. While visiting one village, a cheese shop owner cons them out of their wares with a bogus banknote, and they are forced to work as dishwashers in a nearby hotel after ordering a slap-up meal they are unable to pay for. A Viennese composer present at the hotel is disrupted by the presence of his wife - an opera singer who upstages him constantly; Ollie subsequently falls in love with her. After various adventures (including a confrontation with a gorilla on a perilously-perched rope bridge), the boys overpower the hotel's burly chef and leave the hotel and village, but only to discover the opera singer is indeed married to the composer and then be confronted by the vengeful gorilla (in crutches) before they depart.
Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
Laurel and Hardy join the Foreign Legion when Ollie discovers that the woman he is in love with is already married and want to forget all of his troubles.
With Stan in drag, the boys get jobs as a butler and maid for a dinner party at the Vandevere's. After that ends in disaster, they're reduced to sweeping streets, and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford for a proper education. There they become victims of student pranks, getting lost in the Maze and taking over the Dean's quarters as their own. But then a knock on the head gets Stan to believing he's the famed Lord Paddington, scholar and athlete extraordinaire. Suddenly erudite and supercilious, he retains Oliver as his valet, "Fatty
After working in the noisy horn factory, just the sound of one drives Oliver into a violent fit. Dr. Finlayson prescribes a long, restful sea voyage, so Stan and Oliver rent a boat and set sail, unaware that escaped killer Nick Grainger has stowed away onboard. To disable the crook, the boys prepare him a meal using string for spaghetti, sponges for meatballs and soap for cheese. But Grainger discovers their plan and decides to make them eat the stuff themselves.
Laurel and Hardy join the army to help their boss who got drafted.
Laurel and Hardy are asked to get a coffin for a group of thieves that holds the body of one of their gang. It is a ploy to make money off of his death.
Set during World War II, Stan and Ollie try their hand at various business ventures. Their store opens and closes in various guises but without success.They finally open it as a bicycle store but some German spies trick them into partnering the business so that they can use it as a front for a base. Stan and Ollie volunteer as air raid wardens but keep messing up until they are fired. They soon discover that the spies are planning to blow up the local magnesium plant and in the end are heroes as they scupper the plan.
To Pete Smith's voice over commentary, Stan and Oliver produce various props - the contents of a suitcase and their wallets - all manufactured from wood, or containing wood byproducts such as cellulose. The props demonstrate the omnipresence of wood in the American economy.
Two man band Laurel and Hardy and their swindler friend market new "gasoline pills" and become involved with a young lady and gangsters.
Dance teachers Laurel & Hardy try to help a young inventor sell his new ray gun and win the girl he loves.
Detectives Laurel & Hardy are hired by an inventor to guard his new bomb from Nazi spies.
Failed butler Laurel and failed chef Hardy befriend a young king and discover an assassination plot against him.
Private detectives Stan & Ollie head to Mexico City to track down a female con-artist, but Stan is mistaken for a famous bullfighter and winds up in the ring.
Heading for a newly inherited island, the boys are shipwrecked and marooned on an atoll which has just emerged from the sea. Along with their cook, a stowaway and a girl who is fleeing her fiancé, they set up their own government on the atoll. Uranium is discovered and world powers begin fighting over ownership of the island.
This is a tv documentary where modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel & Hardy. Also has many classic clips of Laurel & Hardy films. Appearing along with host Dom DeLuise in this 1992 TV special are Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Henny Youngman, Blake Edwards, Walter Matthau, Rich Little, Bronson Pinchot, Robert Klein and the Smothers Brothers. Emphasis is on how the work of Laurel & Hardy influenced generations of comedians who followed them. Illustrating film clips feature Stan and Ollie plus Charlie Chaplin, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin, Mae Busch, Jimmy Finlayson, Charley Chase, Billy Gilbert and many more. (Note that most of these vintage black & white segments have been colorized with a heavy hand.)
Charlie relates his harrowing vacation to his co-workers, including his encounter with two confused, derby-hatted hitchikers.
Two African Explorers, Stanislaus Laurello and Hans Downe, travel round Africa, from Los Angeles to Hollywood, trying to capture and photograph animals, but have more encounters than they had hoped for. Some animals encountered are bears, emu's, an elephant and a family of lions.
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds employment at a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amoungst other workers. The constuction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
Avery DuPoise is a wealthy business man, organising a race. He meets one the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoises daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love DuPoises daughter. DuPoise suggests that who ever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action packed races commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
Silent Short featuring only Stan Laurel - On his way to collect inheritance in the small town on Hot Dog, Stan gets robbed by highwaymen, one of which is the other person who shall attend the reading of their late Uncle's will. The reading of the will states Stan will get everything, including 'The Last Chance Saloon', but in the case of Stan's death, the saloon will be split between Bad Mike and his friend. Stan nows flees town, but gets on Bad Mike's horse, which takes him to Bad Mike's house. Bad Mike and his gang arrive at the house, after robbing the saloon. They soon hear Stan, and an epic gun battle follows, with the town Sheriff not far behind.
Silent Short featuring only Stan Laurel - After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit into cases. Then he heads to a storage area, and tries to use the machinery to escape his pursuers.
The Second Hundred Years (aka The Second 100 Years) is a silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951.
Silent short starring Stan Laurel and was released in the same year as the Western silent movie drama The Spoilers. The name of one character from the original, "McNamara", may have a parody in the name of the James Finlayson character.
In this Spanish-language version of "Blotto" bachelor Oliver wants henpecked Stan to go out with him to a Prohibition-era nightclub, so they plan a ruse to get him out of the house. The fiery Mrs. Laurel overhears their plans and replaces the contents of Stan's hidden bottle of liquor with tea and spices. While the boys are at the club enjoying the dancers and the speakeasy-type atmosphere, they imbibe the concoction with seltzer water. The power of suggestion causes them to act like sloppy drunks, but the sight of a hot-tempered Mrs. Laurel with a shotgun quickly sobers them up.
Spanish version of Below Zero. This film was simultaneously produced in English and Spanish language versions. The English language version was Below Zero (1930). To film this Spanish language version, Laurel and Hardy read their lines from cue cards on which Spanish was printed phonetically. At the time of early talkies, dubbing was not yet perfected.
Spanish language version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and the film Berth Marks combined.
A Chump at Oxford, directed in 1939 by Alfred J. Goulding and released in 1940 by United Artists, was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Hal Roach studios. Originally released as a streamliner featurette at forty minutes long, twenty minutes of footage largely unrelated to the main plot were later added for the European distribution. The longer version is the one most often seen today.
Documentary about Laurel & Hardy
Spanky's parents are encouraged to get his photo taken by Otto Phocus, the local photographer, but Spanky isn't partial to the idea, especially when he overhears Phocus talking about "shooting" and "cutting" and taking him literally. The gang comes to help Spanky by ruining Phocus's film and accidentally breaking a lens. Spanky's attitude is less than helpful either, often punching the harried photographer to the nose. Finally, dad tries to distract Spanky with one camera as Phocus takes the real shot, but mom gets tangled in the wire. The incident causes Spanky to start laughing. Phocus snaps his picture convinced he has a wonderful photograph, rushing to develop it, but because of the Rascals tampering with his equipment, there's no picture. He rushes to stop Spanky's parents to try one more time, but Spanky has had enough and he pops the relentless photographer on the nose one last time.
Stan and Ollie are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries. Stan and Ollie then begin to open their pockets and briefcase, pulling out a variety of things that derive from the tree. The narrator talks all the way through this short film (about 7 minutes long). The idea is that scientists can put everything that comes from the tree into one test tube.
Various locations where filming took place for many Laurel and Hardy films and shorts.
This Spanish language film was produced simultaneously with the filming of the two English language Laurel and Hardy shorts Be Big! (1931) and Laughing Gravy (1931). The two shorts were edited together into one continuous film. Laurel and Hardy read their lines from cue cards on which Spanish was written phonetically. At the time of early talkies, dubbing was not yet perfected. The same was done for a French language version, Les carottiers (1931).
This film combines the French language versions of two Laurel & Hardy short films, Be Big and Laughing Gravy, into a pseudo-feature in which the actors speak phonetic French. Commencing with Be Big: the boys fail to join their wives for a weekend in Atlantic City because they've been invited to a stag meeting of their lodge...but they never make it to their lodge, either, because Ollie gets his feet stuck in Stan's too-small boots. A title card explains that the boys have subsequently been kicked out by their wives, and are left with only their little dog, at which point begins Laughing Gravy: on a wintry night in an apartment house where pets are forbidden, the boys attempt to hide their dog, Laughing Gravy, from the landlord, but are threatened with expulsion. However [in a plot twist not found in the original English language version], Stan then receives a letter saying that he will inherit a fortune from his uncle if he leaves Ollie forever; the uncle blames Ollie for Stan's low ...
A remake in Spanish of the Laurel and Hardy short Chickens Come Home (1931) , expanded into a feature by adding scenes of a magician and a regurgitator performing.
Sadly, this was the last footage from Laurel & Hardy ever! This is a private Home Movie of Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy taken in 1956 at the home of Stan Laurel's daughter Lois in California. It was taken after Stan had suffered a stroke, & Ollie had lost a lot of weight. Taken at a family reunion, If your a collecter you will want this rare original clip in colour.
Stan Laurel plays a farm-hand who helps James Finlayson protect his daughter from the amorous advances of a villainous rich man
A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.
A collection of sketches and songs including 'Trail of the Lonesome Pine'.
A look at the world's greatest comedy duo. Hilarious clips from their films are featured with rare interviews and behind the scenes footage.
Profile of enduring icons. The story of Laurel and Hardy, one of the best-loved comedy duos of all time, from their origins in British vaudeville to their heyday as the first real comedy stars of the sound era. With contributions from friends, family and colleagues.
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.
There are few film stars who are genuinely loved by their audiences, but back in the days of the silent movie, a comedy duo enjoyed that from the very beginning. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, with their gentle mixture of slapstick and technical skill, brought laughter to millions through the 20th Century and are still continuing to generate laughter to this very day. Yet, like so many of the truly great Kings of Comedy, Laurel and Hardy often found it difficult to find laughter, peace, and contentment in their own lives and the story of the men behind the carefully constructed masks is both enlightening and entertaining. This program is a delightful celebration of the magic of Laurel and Hardy and a rare glimpse into the private lives of these two enigmatic men. From their earliest beginnings through to their final curtain calls, enjoy getting up close and personal with Stan and Ollie. It's a relationship that started as a business arrangement and blossomed into one of the truest friendships Hollywood has ever known. Whether you're young or simply young at heart, enjoy stepping back in time to discover the true story of Laurel and Hardy where fact will prove equally as fascinating as fiction.
Dorothy, heir to the Oz throne, must take it back from the wicked Prime Minister Kruel with the help of three farmhands.
Laurel and Hardy's bid for a quiet evening of checkers and pool is constantly interrupted by their squabbling brats little Ollie and little Stanley.
Papa Gimplewart, father to three children who will never amount to anything, is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Ignoring her father's attempts to counsel her, a young woman races off to a sale at a store. Chased by a motorcycle policeman, she eventually wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. Meanwhile, her father desperately needs to retrieve a compromising letter that he once wrote, and he will need help to do it.
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A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.
Laurel and Hardy were hailed as '...the greatest comedy duo of all time...'. Now, over half a century since their last film, 'Utopia', they are still held in high esteem by critics and the public alike. This programme is an affectionate look back at this amazing act's career, from their early black and white silent film days, through the Hal Roach era, to their hugely successful British tours and beyond. Generously laced with hilarious clips from the cream of Laurel and Hardy films, as well as original colour film footage from U.S. government promotional films, this programme also includes rare newsreel interviews, and chronicles their amazing success all around the world.
A young woman writes a letter to her family informing them of her new husband; when her husband goes to meet the family, he is insulted by everyone. To make matters worse, her old flame also turns up at the same place.
A Chef goes to collect food for the bridge workers' dinner.
That’s That is a gag reel made up of alternate takes and bloopers said to have been compiled by film editor Bert Jordan as a present for Stan Laurel’s birthday in 1937.
