Laurel & Hardy Volume 10 - Snow!/Classic Shorts
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The magnificent Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in this wonderfully funny DVD.
So let me take you on a tour of these 4 films.
This single DVD contains the following films:
Laughing Gravy - restored black and white version
Laughing Gravy - computer colour version
Be Big - restored black and white version
The Fixer-Uppers - restored black and white version
The Fixer-Uppers - computer colour version
And 1 silent movie:
Slipping Wives - restored black and white version
Laughing Gravy
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The film opens with the boys trying to sleep in a tenant house during a cold, cold night. Stan gets the hiccups and that's the start of the longest night in Ollie's life!
Their pet puppy 'Laughing Gravy' gets ...
Advantages: Funny, clean humour that stands the test of time. Disadvantages: Absolutely none!
voice in the production and the filming of scenes. This is something that was lacking in the copycat era as he was paid to "act"
I purchased this box set when it first came out at £199 and although it retails for a quarter of that now, to me the comedy is priceless.
Speaking of the comedy, if you can think of a Laurel & Hardyclassic, it's here, from the piano on the stairs to the bat in the bed in "The murder case".
The classics are all here but also included are the colourised versions which I have never watched. I've never understood the half-wit that came up with that Idea. It's like giving Joseph a black & white coat of not so many colours.
There are also silent comey shorts that have Laurel & Hardy together and material thay made before they teamed up. There is a few other movies that don't include either of them but are ...
Laurel & Hardy Volume 8 - Blackmail/Classic Shorts
~Introduction~
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The magnificent Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in this wonderfully funny DVD.
So let me take you on a tour of these 5 films.
This single DVD contains the following films:
Chickens Go Home - restored black and white version
Chickens Go Home - computer colour version
Chickens Go Home - extended Spanish-language edition ( Entitled 'Politiquerias' )
Come Clean - restored black and white version
AND 3 silent movies:
Love 'Em And Weep - restored black and white version
Sugar Daddies - restored black and white version
Early To Bed - restored black and white version
A small Synopsis of each movie and my humble opinions on each to follow:
Chickens Go Home
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Ollie is running for Mayor until ...
