"Actor: Stan"

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 17 - Swiss Miss/Animal Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £6.34   |  Saving you £-0.35 (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'.

• Laurel And Hardy - Collector's Edition (Box Set) (Five Discs) (DVD) | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  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 £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  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!

• The Anderson Tapes | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An early example of the techno-thriller, The Anderson Tapes--sharply directed by Sidney Lumet from the novel by Lawrence Sanders--follows just-out-of-stir Duke Anderson (a balding Sean Connery) as he plots the heist of an entire New York apartment building, enlisting a crew that includes Martin Balsam as a vintage 1971 gay stereotype and a very young Christopher Walken in perhaps the first of his jittery crook roles. The gimmick is that Anderson has been out of circulation so long that he doesn't realise his mafia backers are only supporting him because they feel nostalgic for the days before they were boring businessmen and that the whole setup is monitored by a criss-crossing selection of government and private agencies who don't care enough to thwart the robbery, which instead becomes unglued thanks to a gutsy young radio ham. With a cool Quincy Jones score, very tight editing, a lot of spot-on cameo performances from the likes of Ralph Meeker as a patient cop, this hasn't dated a bit: it's wry without being jokey and suspenseful without undue contrivance. On the DVD The Anderson Tapes offers a nice anamorphic transfer, a few trailers and various foreign language options. --Kim Newman

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 7 - Block Heads/Related Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  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!

• The Boys In Company C | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £17.77   |  Saving you £-4.78 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Recognised as the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket Boys of Company C is a high-end member of the cannon of classic battle-field movies and a frighteningly realistic critique of the pointlessness and corruption universally associated with the US/Vietnam war. Boys of Company C follows the lives of five nave young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp through a tour in Vietnam that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile combat appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. But as they might have predicted nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems.

• Laurel and Hardy - Great Guns/Jitterbug/the Big Noise | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £21.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (13.64%)   |  RRP £24.99

  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. 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.

• The Covenant | Blu Ray | (30/04/2007) from £11.79   |  Saving you £8.20 (69.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four boys, who accidentally unleash an evil force in the process of receiving powers from their fathers, must join together to stop it.

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 10 - Snow!/Classic Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £5.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (16.50%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Laughing Gravy (b/w extended edition) Laughing Gravy (b/w original edition) Laughing Gravy (colourised extended edition) Be Big / Laughing Gravy (combined French version) Slipping Wives (b/w silent with musical score) The Fixer Uppers (b/w) The Fixer Uppers (colourised) A collection of classic Laurel & Hardy shorts - and a foreign-language feature - set amid the snow! 'The Fixer Uppers' takes us to a French-influenced artists' neighbourhood where greeting-card salesmen Stan and Ollie agree to help a woman whose husband has been neglecting her. To arouse the husband's jealousy Ollie poses as her lover - and is challenged to a duel! For comparison this compilation also includes 'Slipping Wives' an early pre-teaming appearance of L&H on which the plot of 'The Fixer Uppers' was based. In 'Laughing Gravy' Stan and Ollie defy their landlord by keeping a small dog in their lodgings and have to brave the elements when their pet is thrown out. This compilation includes the original two-reel version as released in 1931 alongside extended material incorporating a rediscovered third reel that was never released at the time. This longer version introducing an entirely new twist to the plot is also featured in 'Les Carottiers' a French-language edition - with Laurel & Hardy speaking their own dialogue - that combines 'Laughing Gravy' with another L&H film of the period 'Be Big'.

• Hot Tub Time Machine | Blu Ray | (22/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.

• Laurel and Hardy - Bullfighters/Dancing Masters/a Haunting.. | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

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

• Laurel And Hardy - No. 19 - Pardon Us And Related Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £3.58   |  Saving you £2.41 (67.32%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Pardon Us (b/w extended version) Pardon Us (colourised) The Hoose-Gow (b/w) The Hoose-Gow (colourised) Battle Of The Century (b/w silent with musical score) A collection of classic Laurel & Hardy including their first starring feature film 'Pardon Us' in which they are sent to prison for breaking the Prohibition laws an earlier short 'The Hoose-Gow' where they join a prison road gang and start - of all things - a rice-pudding fight plus the famous silent short on which that climactic scene was based 'The Battle Of The Century'.

• Dinosaur 13 | DVD | (12/01/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When palaeontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute made the world's greatest dinosaur discovery in 1990 they knew it was the find of a lifetime: the largest most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. But during a ten-year battle with the US government powerful museums Native American tribes and competing palaeontologists they found themselves not only fighting to keep their dinosaur but fighting for their freedom as well. Special Features: Deleted Scenes

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 18 - Married Life/Anita Garvin | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.66   |  Saving you £1.33 (28.54%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Blotto (b/w) Blotto (colourised) Blotto (Spanish version titled as 'La Vida Nocturna') Be Big (b/w) Be Big (colourised) Be Big / Laughing Gravy (Spanish version) In 'Blotto' Stan needs to contrive an excuse to spend a night out with Ollie. Mrs. Laurel overhears their plans but decides to go along with them but not before replacing their bottle of genuine booze - this being the Prohibition era - with an entirely different mixture! 'Be Big' starts with Stan and Ollie ready to go away for the weekend with their wives only to learn that their hunting lodge is holding a testimonial dinner for them that evening. Ollie feigns illness and the wives go away without them but there remains the problem of getting into the hunting regalia and riding boots. 'Los Calaveras' is a feature-length Spanish edition combining a version of 'Be Big' (incorporating some comedy material unseen in English) with another short of this period 'Laughing Gravy'.

• Laurel And Hardy Film Reel Collection | DVD | (21/05/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. The team was composed of thin Englishman, Stan Laurel (1890 1965) and heavyset American, Oliver Hardy (1892 1957). They became well known during the late 1920s through the mid- 1940s for their slapstick comedy with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous Hardy. As a team they appeared in 106 films with the pair starring in 34 short silent films, 45 short sound films & 27 full-length feature films. This nostalgic collection contains 6 of the duo s most popular films and 7 Stan Laurel classic comedy shorts, making it perfect for Laurel & Hardy fans and comedy lovers alike.

• The Overlanders | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £11.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Overlanders

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 5 - Our Relations/Dual Roles Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.90   |  Saving you £1.09 (22.24%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Our Relations (b/w) Our Relations (colourised) Brats (b/w) Brats (colourised) Twice Two (b/w) Twice Two (colourised) Among the full-length Laurel & Hardy films 'Our Relations' is one of the most polished and perhaps the most ingenious. Clever editing and optical work create the illusion of two sets of Laurel & Hardy with confusion arising between Stan and Ollie and their identical twins Alf and Bert. Also included are two classic shorts employing a similar dual-identity motif 'Brats' - in which they play their own small sons - and 'Twice Two' introducing us to Stan and Ollie's twin sisters!

• Putney Swope (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (01/08/2022) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Product Features Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, Shaft) is the only Black executive at a stuffy Madison Avenue advertising agency. When the chairman dies unexpectedly, Putney is elected the new boss because those voting never thought anyone else would to do the same. Putney proceeds to kick out the white majority, replacing them with young, revolutionary types, and renames the agency Truth and Soul. A bracing satire, taking well-aimed pot-shots at capitalism, power and racism in America, Robert Downey's Putney Swope is a key entry in counterculture cinema, and a landmark of independent filmmaking, and after more than a half a century is still very, very funny. Product Features 4K restoration by the Academy Film Archive and the Film Foundation Original mono audio Audio commentary with writer-director Robert Downey (2001) Audio commentary with film critic and historian Sergio Mims (2019) Interview with Robert Downey (2001) Audio interview with cinematographer Gerald Cotts (2019) Film Forum Q&A with Robert Downey (2016): the writer and director in conversation with Bruce Goldstein at the Film Forum, New York Original theatrical trailer Dan Ireland trailer commentary (2014): short critical appreciation Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet featuring a new essay by Christina Newland, an archival article on the film, archival comments from Robert Downey, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and full film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK All extras subject to change

• Laurel & Hardy Volume 20 - More Brushes With The Law/Classic Shorts | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £5.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.17%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Contains: Going Bye-Bye! (b/w) Going Bye-Bye! (colourised) Do Detectives Think? (b/w silent with musical score) Habeas Corpus (b/w silent with musical score) Angora Love (b/w silent with musical score) Bacon Grabbers (b/w) The Midnight Patrol (B/w) The Midnight Patrol (colourised) Liberty (b/w silent with musical score and sound effects) Wrong Again (b/w silent with musical score and sound effects) In 'Going Bye-Bye!' their evidence has led to a criminal being brought to justice - but thanks to Stan he decides to break out and take his revenge. In 'Do Detectives Think?' it's L&H's turn to guard someone against a vengeful criminal. Another detective follows Stan and Ollie after they are engaged as grave-robbers in 'Habeas Corpus'. The police take an interest in an escaped goat in 'Angora Love' while Stan and Ollie are sheriff's men trying to serve a summons in Bacon Grabbers. They actually join the police in 'The Midnight Patrol' but in Liberty are back in more typical mode as escaped convicts who find themselves trapped on a partly-built skyscraper. 'Wrong Again' - in which Stan and Ollie manage to put a horse on a piano! - concludes with perennial cop Harry Bernard in one of the best-remembered sight gags from the L&H repertoire.

• Swing! Swing! Swing! | DVD | (21/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  29 Swinging tracks from some jazz greats including Stan Kenton Larry Clinton Louis Prima Artie Shaw Bobby Hackett Fats Waller and the Dorsey Brothers.