Oliver Hardy
Author
Language
English
Description
A compilation of primarily Laurel and Hardy shorts 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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Imagine a fantasy world of timeless characters and magical moments where nothing goes right for clumsy toymakers Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee. When a notorious scoundrel, Barnaby, demands to marry the beautiful Little Bo Peep, guess who secretly emerges as the blushing bride? Based on the original Babes in Toyland, this movie is a dazzling spectacle of 6-foot wooden soldiers, Mother Goose characters and the beloved team of Laurel and Hardy.
3) Persuade me
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Eleven films designed to influence, including a vintage promotional film of a French-dubbed Laurel & Hardy, theatrical advertisements featuring Michel Simon and Jacques Tati, a 1938 George Pal puppet animation, three WW-II era musical shorts, two political campaign films, and the National Film registry selection Master Hands, a paean to the 1936 Chevrolet automobile.
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Utopia: Their final film, Laurel and Hardy are shipwrecked on a South Seas island with two shipmates and a French chantoosy for company ; The flying deuces: Complications arise as Stan and Ollie join the Foreign Legion to help Ollie forget his troubled romantic past. Classic moments with Laurel & Hardy: Fast-paced good comedy has Ollie ending up reincarnated as a mule ; Laurel & Hardy on parade: A comedy twosome takes a cattle boat from America to...
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
1999?]
Language
English
Description
Two tars: Classic retribution comedy set in a rural Model-T traffic jam. Second hundred years: The Boys are determined to escape from prison. Slipping wives: Early short finds Stan playing a masher and Hardy the protective butler. From soup to nuts: Early triumph finds the Boys as servants. Scorching Sands: Early Laurel solo finds Stan spoofing desert adventure flicks. Should tall men marry? Beautiful tinted original print of Stan's final solo outing...
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
1999?]
Language
English
Description
That's my wife: Stan is hilarious in drag as Babe's estranged wife. Flying elephants: Stan and Ollie are cave men competing for the same girl. Putting pants on Philip: Cousin Babe is determined to get visiting Scot Stan our of kilts and into pants and away from girls. Crazy like a fox: Charley pretends to be nuts to escape a pre-arranged marriage. The soilers: Famous Laurel parody of the Yukon tale, "The spoilers." 45 minutes from Hollywood: The first-ever...
Series
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Abbott & Costello are a bumbling pair of booksellers who find themselves in deepest Africa while searing for diamond in Africa Screams. Abbott & Costello's whimsically adapt the fairy tale Jack & the Beanstalk. Laurel and Hardy scramble to make a quick buck in Utopia. Laurel and Hardy join the French Foreign Legion in The Flying Deuces.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their success moving into 1928 galvanized the efforts of everyone at Hal Roach Studios (including famed director Leo McCarey), who proudly upped their game in support of the winning comedy duo. Whether wreaking accidental havoc as a two-man band, doing battle against one another as millionaire and butler, or even becoming grave robbers for a mad scientist,...