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Posts Tagged "Laurel and Hardy"

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Helpmates **** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Blanche Payson, Bobby Burns) – Classic Movie Review 10,732

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 […]

Jan, 01

The Big Noise *** (1944, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Jack Norton, Veda Ann Borg) – Classic Movie Review 10,122

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 […]

Aug, 02

The Lucky Dog *** (1921, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Florence Gilbert) – Classic Movie Review 10,041

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 […]

Jul, 15

Great Guns *** (1941, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan, Dick Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 9439

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, […]

Feb, 28

Our Wife **** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Babe London, Ben Turpin) – Classic Movie Review 8781

‘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 […]

Jul, 31

Dirty Work **** (1933, Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy, Lucien Littlefield, Sam Adams) – Classic Movie Review 8560

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 […]

Jun, 06

The Flying Deuces *** (1939, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, James Finlayson, Charles Middleton, Jean Del Val, Crane Whitley) – Classic Movie Review 8512

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 […]

May, 29

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