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Director James Parrott’s 1932 comedy short Helpmates stars the priceless Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on top form. It was produced by Hal Roach and released by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer on 23 January 1932. Hardy makes the mistake of calling […]
Director Malcolm St Clair’s 1944 comedy The Big Noise is a still smile-worthy if relatively feeble, padded-out late-period movie from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, in which the Boys are detective agency janitors who pretend […]
Writer-director Jess Robbins’s 1921 silent black and white short film The Lucky Dog makes screen history as the first film with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, though not as a comedy duo, but appearing in […]
Director Monty [Montague] Banks’s 1941 black and white wartime comedy Great Guns stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, trying only partly successfully to revamp their career with a new studio (20th Century Fox), as soft, […]
‘Mr Hardy was making big preparations to get married – Mr Laurel was taking a bath too.‘ Director James W Horne’s 1931 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy Our Wife is a consistently funny and […]
Director Lloyd French’s 1933 two-reeler black and white comedy short film Dirty Work stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as chimney sweeps who experiment with mad scientist Professor Noodle (Lucien Littlefield)’s rejuvenation formula. Stan accidentally […]
Director A Edward Sutherland’s 1939 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy The Flying Deuces has its weaknesses and its downsides but it is still likeable and amusing for the most part, though, and it does […]