"Actor: Oliver Hardy"

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  March of the Wooden Soldiers: The film s story takes place in Toyland which is inhabited by Mother Goose and other well known fairy tale characters. Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee (played by Laurel and Hardy) live in a shoe which is owned by the villainous Silas Barnaby who is looking to marry Bo Peep. Our heroes try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on the shoe and to keep Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stannie Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland. Stan and Ollie run and hide in the toy shop where they discover a box of darts to battle the Bogeymen. They empty the darts into a cannon but decide instead to unleash the toy soldiers on their enemy. Utopia: 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. All goes well until the singer s fiancee arrives to reveal that the new island is rich with uranium deposits. People from all over the world flock to the island, but soon the situation turns chaotic when a revolt seeks to overthrow and execute the island s original inhabitants. Before the execution, however, another storm strikes and submerges the island. Laurel and Hardy are rescued and finally arrive at the island Laurel inherited, only to have their land and supplies impounded for failure to pay back taxes! Flying Deuces: Stan and Ollie are holidaying in Paris. Ollie intends to remain in France to marry Georgette (Jean Parker), the innkeeper s daughter, but is heartbroken when he finds that she s fallen in love with and has married dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois (Reginald Gardiner). Ollie decides instead to jump into the Seine, along with Stan, but they are talked out of it by François who suggests they join the Legion. When they try to leave after Ollie has recovered from being jilted they are charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. They manage to escape in a stolen airplane but crash after a wild ride. Only Stan survives - but an earlier musing on reincarnation produces a bizarre postscript. Hustling for Health: Our down at heel hero Stan is befriended by a stranger at a train depot and brought back to the family home where his wife is having a suffragette meeting. None too pleased they cause mayhem dragging the neighbours into the argument as Stan throws rubbish into their award winning garden. Stan falls foul of them again when he steals their food to give to his new friends and is finally left outside in the yard mooning over the neighbours daughter in a downpour. One Too Many: This zippy and fun short from 1916 - the time when Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle were the big names in comedy - features the young Oliver Hardy as a ne er-do-well who has to quickly impress his wealthy uncle by producing a wife and baby for his visit. Of course this does not go smoothly and soon there are rather more wives and babies than he can cope with; plus the mandatory chases and misunderstandings that are the hallmark of early movie slapstick. The Lucky Dog: The Lucky Dog is the first film to include both Laurel & Hardy although they play independently of each other and not as the famous duo they would later become. Stan plays the hapless hero, who after being thrown out onto the street for not paying his rent, is befriended by a stray dog.

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  Vanessa Redgrave plays Clarissa Dalloway an MP's wife whose life is thrown into crisis when a lover she rejected 30 years ago makes an unexpected appearance at a party she is hosting at her elegant London home prompting bittersweet memories of her youth. Marleen Gorris the Oscar winning director of Antonia's Line brings to life Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking 1925 novel which itself inspired Michael Cunningham's Pultizer Prize-winning novel 'The Hours'. Beautifully filmed in

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  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Beau Hunks (b/w) Beau Hunks (colourised) Our Wife (b/w) Our Wife (colourised) Helpmates (b/w) Helpmates (colourised) Me And My Pal (b/w) Me And My Pal (colourised) A 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. 'Our Wife' centres around his attempts to elope with his beloved Dulcy with assistance from Stan as the Best Man. '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. Hardy while in 'Me And My Pal' Ollie's wedding day is disrupted when Stan arrives with a jigsaw puzzle.

• Laurel & Hardy: The Slapstick 3 Film Collection | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £4.50   |  Saving you £5.49 (122.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  3 classic Laurel & Hardy films from the Fox vaults, featuring The Bullfighters, The Dancing Masters and A-Haunting We Will Go.

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  Stan and Ollie mistakenly enlist in the army and find themselves posted to the Northwest Frontier in India on a dangerous mission.

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 13 - Sons of the Desert/Related Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £5.06   |  Saving you £0.93 (18.38%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Sons Of The Desert (b/w) Sons Of The Desert (colourised) We Faw Down Their Purple Moment On The Wrong Trek In 'Sons Of The Desert' Stan and Ollie attend the Chicago convention of their lodge but tell their wives they are going on an ocean voyage for the sake of Ollie's health - then discover that the ship has sunk! The silent short 'We Faw Down' anticipates this story with Stan and Ollie claiming to have attended a stage show - unaware that the theatre has burned down. In 'Their Purple Moment' Stan and Ollie go out for an evening without their wives only to discover that their money has been replaced with useless coupons. 'Sons Of The Desert' includes a guest contribution from fellow-Roach comedian Charley Chase; 'On the Wrong Trek' sees L&H returning the compliment in one of Chase's own films.

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  Hustling For Health (1919): Stan's holiday plans go awry when he misses his train and accepts an invitation to stay with a complete stranger. The Paper Hanger's Helper (1920): The paper hanger (Oliver Hardy) and his assistant answer an urgent call from a mental hospital. A Lucky Dog (1921): The very first pairing of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on screen with Oliver playing a crook who tries to rob Stan. The Soilers (1923): A parody of The Spoilers (a major hit the same ye

• Laurel And Hardy - March Of The Wooden Soldiers | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The most lavish feature built around Laurel and Hardy, 1934's March of the Wooden Soldiers is also the most bizarre. Opening unpromisingly with one of several mawkish numbers derived from Victor Herbert's musical Babes in Toyland, the antics of toyshop labourers Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee are worked into a scenario midway between Lewis Carroll and The Brothers Grimm. Nursery-rhyme characters come and go in a surreal fantasy, with the evil Mr Barnaby threatening to evict Widow Peep from her shoe unless he receives her daughter Bo in marriage. The movie culminates in a full-scale invasion of Toyland by the yeti-ish Bogeymen and their defeat by the 100 six-foot wooden soldiers that Stan and Ollie have built by mistake. Henry Brandon gives a characterful performance, while 1930s child star Charlotte Henry is an appealing heroine. Directors Gus Meins and Charles R Rogers milk the slapstick to an increasingly unnerving degree. Reputedly Hardy's favourite among the double act's features, March of the Wooden Soldiers emerges now as their most audacious screen appearance. On the DVD: March of the Wooden Soldiers on disc reproduces the original black and white print in 4:3 ratio with pristine clarity; the mono soundtrack has similarly worn well. The potted biographies of Laurel and Hardy are too brief to be worthwhile, but the inclusion of the 1915 short Hustling for Health--among the earliest of Stan Laurel's film appearances--is a valuable bonus. --Richard Whitehouse

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  A Festive Laurel & Hardy Treat!Episodes comprise:Laurel & Hardy - Below ZeroLaurel & Hardy - Big BusinessLaurel & Hardy - The Fixer UppersLaurel & Hardy - Laughing GravyLaurel & Hardy - Below Zero (Colourised Version)Laurel & Hardy - The Fixer Uppers (Colourised Version)Laurel & Hardy - Laughing Gravy (Colourised Version)

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 1 - A Chump At Oxford/Related Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.16   |  Saving you £1.83 (43.99%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy from Laurel and Hardy. Contains: A Chump At Oxford (b/w) A Chump At Oxford (colourised) From Soup to Nuts Another Fine Mess (b/w) Another Fine Mess (colourised) 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'.

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  When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools - the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named. In this fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series everything changes as Harry Ron and Hermione leave childhood forever and take on challenges greater than anything they could have imagined.

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  The Big Noise (Dir. Malcolm St. Clair, 1944):The zany antics of legendary comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy come to life in this romp about two phony private detectives.The duo play janitors accidentally hired as sleuths to protect a new super-bomb destined for the War Department in Washington, D.C. However, the bomb's inventor has loaded his house with crazy contraptions that entrap and confuse the protectors. Meanwhile, next door is the biggest threat of all - a gang of crooks determined to get their hands on the inventor's deadly creation. Through a series of crazy misadventures, our heroes end up in a remote-controlled airplane, along with the bomb, and head straight for trouble.Great Guns (Dir. Monty Banks, 1941):Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy join the army to protect their country...but who will protect the army from them?In Great Guns, the comic team play a chauffeur and a gardener whose hypochondriac employer (Dick Nelson), a wealthy young man with little experience, is drafted. Convinced that he needs them in order to survive in the service, they join up as well. Of course, the Texas cavalry post to which they're all assigned is made far worse for the wear by the presence of these well-meaning troublemakers, and there is never a dull moment in this classic featuring two of the cinema's most revered comic actors!Jitterbugs (Dir. Malcolm St. Clair, 1943):Considered the best of the Laurel and Hardy projects filmed at Twentieth Century Fox, this energetic musical comedy also introduces singer Vivian Blaine.Stan and Oliver star as a traveling two-man jitterbug band, who operate out of a dilapidated jalopy and form an unlikely partnership with a likable con man (Bob Bailey). When the trio joins a carnival, they meet Susan, a naive young singer (Vivian Blaine), whose mother has been swindled by grifters. Suddenly chivalrous, the three orchestrate a sting operation using disguises - with Laurel dressed as Susan's disheveled aunt and Hardy as a rich Texan - to get the woman's money back. Although things don't go as planned, the inimitable comedy duo provide nonstop laughs from start to finish in this delightful caper.

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 9 - The Bohemian Girl/Related Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £3.38   |  Saving you £2.61 (77.22%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Bohemian Girl (b/w) Bohemian Girl (colourised) On The Loose That's My Wife (b/w silent with musical score) Along Came Auntie (b/w) A classic full-length Laurel & Hardy film 'The Bohemian Girl' is based on the opera by Michael W. Balfe. Stan and Ollie play gypsies in Europe as it was centuries ago earning their living by an ingenious means of picking pockets. When Mrs. Hardy disappears with her lover they become guardians to a small girl who is really the daughter of an aristocrat. 'The Bohemian Girl' was the last L&H film to feature Thelma Todd who had worked with the team since their first talkie in 1929. This compilation includes one of her starring short comedies with ZaSu Pitts 'On the Loose' to which Laurel & Hardy contribute a guest appearance. Also included is 'That's My Wife' a classic silent L&H film that at one stage was going to be reworked as part of 'The Bohemian Girl' plus the earlier Hardy solo film that inspired its plot 'Along Came Auntie'.

• Three Stooges In Colour / Laurel & Hardy - Way Out West / Marx Bros - Duck Soup | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Three Stooges In Colour: Four remastered colourised comedy shorts featuring American vaudeville act The Three Stooges: Disorder in the Court (1936) Brideless Groom (1947) Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947) Malice in the Palace (1949). Way Out West: Stan and Ollie arrive in Brushwood Gulch bearing the deed to a gold mine. They are to deliver the deed to Mary Roberts but are intercepted by her employer villainous saloon-owner Mickey Finn. Finn passes off his wife Lola as the heiress but Stan and Ollie discover the truth and set about retrieving the deed. Finn has the Sheriff on his side so our heroes must resort to burglary - with the aid of ropes pulleys and their mule! Duck Soup: Groucho is Rufus T. Firefly the hilarious dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico are commisioned as spies by Groucho's political rival the calculating Trentino. The film contains many of the brothers' famous sequences: the lemonade stand the Paul Revere parody the We're Going To War number (a beautiful spoof of 30's musicals) the hilarious mirror scene and a final battle episode that has been copied by everyone including Woody Allen!

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 8 - Blackmail/Classic Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £8.49   |  Saving you £0.49 (8.91%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Chickens Come Home (b/w) Chickens Come Home (colourised) Politiquerias (Chickens Come Home in an extended Spanish-language edition with Laurel & Hardy speaking their own Spanish dialogue!) Come Clean (b/w) Love 'Em and Weep (b/w silent with music score) Sugar Daddies (b/w silent with music score) Early to Bed (b/w silent with music score) A collection of classic Laurel & Hardy shorts based around the theme of blackmail - actual or implied! In one of the team's best shorts 'Chickens Come Home' Ollie is a candidate for Mayor whose campaign is endangered by the reappearance of a girl from his past. Alongside the familiar version of this film is its feature-length Spanish equivalent 'Politiquerias' with L&H speaking their own foreign dialogue plus the early silent short 'Love 'Em And Weep' on which it was based. Another early silent 'Sugar Daddies' provides a variant on the idea (plus the same climactic gag!) while in the sound short 'Come Clean' regular foil Mae Busch - the blackmailer in 'Love 'Em And Weep' and its remake - is once again demanding money from Stan and Ollie. In the classic silent 'Early To Bed' Ollie has money to spare - and this time it's Stan who learns the power of blackmail!

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 12 - L & H and the Law/Classic Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.22   |  Saving you £3.03 (102.36%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Scram! (b/w) Scram! (colourised) Night Owls (b/w) Night Owls (colourised) Night Owls (Spanish version) The Second Hundred Years (silent with musical score) The Call Of The Cuckoo (silent with musical score) Duck Soup (silent with musical score and sound effects) 45 Minutes From Hollywood (silent with musical score) Big Business (silent with musical score) A collection of classic shorts with Stan and Ollie finding themselves - mostly - on the wrong side of the law. In 'Scram!' a judge orders them to leave town after finding them guilty of vagrancy. 'Night Owls' sees Stan and Ollie in the same condition but the local cop is willing to let them go if they are willing to pose as burglars. 'Ladrones' is an extended Spanish-language version of 'Night Owls' with L&H speaking their own dialogue. Stan and Ollie are shaven-headed convicts in 'The Second Hundred Years' a silent classic in which they escape from jail disguised as painters. The shaven heads are still visible in a guest appearance made at the same time in the Max Davidson comedy 'Call of the Cuckoo'. In 'Duck Soup' they elude the sheriff by taking refuge in an empty mansion posing as owner and maid for the benefit of prospective tenants. '45 Minutes From Hollywood' the first Hal Roach film in which both Laurel and Hardy appeared casts Oliver Hardy as a hotel detective. The all-time classic 'Big Business' - sometimes hailed as the greatest of all the L&H films - involves them in battle with irascible James Finlayson following their attempts to sell him a Christmas tree.

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 17 - Swiss Miss/Animal Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Swiss Miss (b/w) Swiss Miss (colourised) The Chimp (b/w) The Chimp (colourised) Flying Elephants (b/w silent with musical score) In 'Swiss Miss' Stan and Ollie visit Switzerland in the hope of selling mousetraps only to find themselves having to work in a hotel to pay off their bill. One of the most memorable scenes is that in which they are required to transport a piano across a flimsy rope bridge where they meet an escaped gorilla! Another large ape is Ethel the title character of 'The Chimp' while large creatures of a quite different kind appear in the Stone-Age comedy 'Flying Elephants'.

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  This Fun Packed 5 DVD box set contains the following feature length and classic short movies of probably the greatest comedy duo ever to hit the silver screen. UTOPIA FLYING DEUCES MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS THE SLEUTH WEST OF HOT DOG KID SPEED MUD & SAND KILL OR CURE TREE IN A TEST TUBE SHOULD TALL MEN MARRY? SCORCHING SANDS WANDERING PAPAS MUMS THE WORD MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 6 - Murder in the Air/Classic Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: The Laurel/Hardy Murder Case (b/w) The Laurel/Hardy Murder Case (colourised) The Laurel/Hardy Murder Case (Spanish version) Berth Marks (b/w) Berth Marks (colourised) Oliver The Eighth (b/w) Oliver The Eighth (colourised) A 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. 'The Laurel/Hardy Murder Case' is a spoof of the kind of thriller prevalent at that time complete with hysterical relatives grim policemen and disappearing bodies. 'Noche De Duendes' is the Spanish-language version of this film extended in length by reworked material from an earlier short 'Berth Marks' which is also included in this compilation. In 'Oliver The Eighth' regular foil Mae Busch is at her best as a homicidal maniac!

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  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Blockheads (b/w) Blockheads (colourised) Unaccustomed (b/w) Unaccustomed (colourised) With Love And Hisses (b/w silent with music score) Should Married Men Go Home? 'Blockheads is one of the most popular Laurel & Hardy feature films. In World War One Stan is left to guard a trench only to be discovered - still at his post - twenty years after the war! Ollie now married sees Stan's picture in the newspaper and visiting his friend at the Old Soldiers' Home invites him home for a meal ... from which point Ollie's peacetime existence seems more like another battlefield. Also included is L&H's very first talkie 'Unaccustomed As We Are' a 1929 two-reeler from which Blockheads drew much of its inspiration. 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. Laurel could disrupt the home life of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy!