Includes the following: Lucky Dog Mud & Sand Wizard Of Oz Kid Speed The Stolen Joals
Some of Hollywood's greatest funny men line up to appear in this three disc box set which looks at the lives and times of some of the screen's funniest legends of the 20th century. First up is a documentary looking at the life of Charlie Chaplin who was born at the Elephant and Castle in London before finding fame in Hollywood. Next is a look at the career of the Marx Brothers probably the funniest group of comics ever to appear in a series of movies. Completing the collection is Hat's Off a tribute to Laurel and Hardy which also includes two of their movies Utopia and Flying Deuces.
Two Laurel & Hardy shorts: Lucky Dog (1921) and Be Big (1931).
Laurel and Hardy star as Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee in this classic comedy musical set in the fairytale world of Toyland. When the unscrupulous Silas Barnaby threatens to evict Mother Widow Peep from her home, the boys come to her rescue... or at least they would have if they’d not been fired from the toy factory for getting Santa Claus’s order wrong by making 100 six foot soldiers instead of 600 one foot soldiers! But when Barnaby and his evil Bogeymen terrorise Toyland, an army of wooden soldiers is just what the town needs to rid themselves of his wickedness once and for all.
Mud And Sand: A marvellous satire on the Valentino classic Blood And Sand. Stan is the bullfighter who wants to make it to the top. All he has to do is beat the bull and win back the girl. The Sawmill: Our hero the mild mannered Larry is in a fix. Lumber camp boss Oliver Hardy has his eye on the girl as well as the payroll. It's up to Larry to save the day.
Includes the following: Arthome Swallows his Clarinet The Cook All this & Rabbit stew Love & Advertising An Excursion to the Moon La Samaritaine Publi-cine By Indian Post Ctrano de Bergerac Ain't she Sweet The Flight Around the World
Laurel & Hardy 4 DVD set includes: March of the Wooden Soldiers The films 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. Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.
March of the Wooden Soldiers Evil old Silas Barnaby threatens to evict Widow Peep who lives in a shoe unless she lets him marry her daughter Bo-Beep who is in love with the dashing young Tom-Tom. Silas seeks revenge by banishing Tom-Tom to Bogeyland but with the help of Stan Ollie and a mouse Tom-Tom and Bo-Peep are saved and the monsters of Bogeyland chased out of Toyland. 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 she refuses his proposal. Ollie decides instead to jump into the Seine along with Stan but Fran''ois (Reginald Gardiner) a Foreign Legion officer who is actually Georgette's husband offers an alternative. Utopia The last film Laurel and Hardy made together Stan and Ollie fly to London for the reading of Stan's late uncle's will. After Stan's uncle's cash is used to pay the solicitors death duties and tax the only things left are a yacht--and a South Sea island. Hilarious hijinks ensue... Disc 4 also includes Hustling for Health One Too Many and The Lucky Dog
You do not have to be a film buff to enjoy this fourth edition of 16 of the rarest short films of the pioneer days of cinema Featured Films: I'll say she is The talion punishment Alice in wonderland Three soundies The seine flood To spring Women MPs Mgm promotions Montmartre's kids La joie vivre Lizzies of the field Philips broadcast The flight around the world episode 4
In this their last film together Stan and Ollie fly to London for the reading of a Stan's late uncle's will. After all Stan's uncle's cash is used to pay the solicitors death duties and tax the only thing left are a yacht and a South Sea Island! At the docks they take receipt of their yaught and also a displaced seaman and a stowaway. Together the four set sail but are shipwrecked on an Atoll during a storm. There they meet singer Cherie L'amour who is escaping her fiancee. When he turns up unexpectedly to chart the Atoll he discovers it to be rich in uranium and soon the super powers want it. Meanwhile the five occupants form their own government and vote Oliver their Governor! Can he save their island?
Stan and Ollie are on holiday in Paris when Ollie falls in love with the beautiful daughter of an innkeeper. On discovering she is already married Ollie decides that the only way to get over the disappointment is to join the Foreign Legion - dragging poor old Stan along for company. The boys wreak havoc at the training camp and are arrested for desertion before escaping in a stolen airplane where they take a ride they will never forget! The Flying Deuces is unique as it was made in 1939 as an independent picture unlike most Laurel & Hardy movies that were made under the guidance of Hal Roach. It is classic laugh a minute entertainment and is renowned by fans the world over as being one of their finest pieces.
Oliver Hardy is the bulging farm-hand who is in love with the beautiful Dorothy. Things take a turn for the worse as a love rival appears on the scene. Far away in the land of Oz the evil prime minister Kruel and his ambassador Wikked are on the lookout for a long-lost princess. This princess who vanished without a trace when she was still a baby is the rightful ruler of Oz and a big headache for the prime minister. Back in Kansas Dorothy stumbles upon a secret letter that expl
Ollie is heartbroken when he discovers that Georgette, the beautiful daughter of a Parisian innkeeper, is already married to a dashing officer in the French Foreign Legion. In order to forget her, Ollie and Stan join the Legion but army life isn’t for them and their bumbling antics land them in very hot water, right up to their necks. These two Hollywood legends are about to realise getting out of the Legion is a lot harder than getting in.
Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee are lodging at Mother Widow Peep's house and resolve to help her clear her mortgage with Silas Barnaby. When they find they have insufficient saved up they decide to borrow the rest against their wages from the Toymaker. Unfortunately Stannie has mixed up an order for Santa Claus building him 100 six foot tall soldiers instead of 600 one foot tall soldiers which leads to their dismissal. They are then banished from Toyland to Bogeyland on trumped up burglary charges which are eventually dropped on the proviso that Little Bo Peep agrees to marry Silas Barnaby. Stannie dresses up as the bride and tricks Silas Barnaby long enough for the mortgage deed to be handed over but an enraged Barnaby frames Tom Tom (Little Bo Peep's true love) for pignapping and gets him banished to Bogeyland. Barnaby eventually leads the Bogeymen of Bogeyland on an invasion of Toyland with only Stannie and Ollie and their hundred soldiers standing in their way.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy formed the most popular and longest running comedy team of all time but long before they teamed up both were successful movie comedians in the own right. This collection features them on their own in comedy classics as well as teamed together. Oliver Hardy frequently played 'heavies' in support of bigger comedy stars such as Charley Chase Larry Semon Chaplin imitator Billie West and Glenn Tyron but he also starred in his own films long before he had even met Stan Laurel. Stan Laurel came to America with Fred Karno's comedy troupe along with Charlie Chaplin and like Chaplin stayed on to venture into movie comedies. He spent much of the 'Teens and the 1920s in search of a successful comedy formula.
Stan and Ollie are the unlikely inheritors of a yacht and a small island. They set sail for their new home accompanied by a stateless refugee and a stowaway. After violent storm causes our heroes to crash on their island, they decide to create their own republic - Utopia. All goes well until uranium is discovered and the island is bombarded with money-hungry adventurers.
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