How can I put this kindly? Muppet director Brian Henson’s The Happytime Murders (2018) is not a success. The problem is the story and screenplay by Todd Berger. OK the story might be workable, the private eye/ Muppet spoof […]
Writer-director Leo McCarey’s 1929 20-minute two-reeler black and white short film Liberty stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as escaped convicts from warden Tom Kennedy’s prison, having trouble with their stripey prison clothes during their […]
Writer-producer-director Robert Youngson’s Laurel and Hardy’s Laughing 20’s is a delectable feature film compilation of primarily Laurel and Hardy shorts, with some of Stan and Ollie’s finest scenes from the silent era. There are delightful […]
Director James Parrott’s and producer Hal Roach’s 1930 The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case is a black and white comedy short film starring the incomparable Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, released by MGM in 1930. Instead of the […]
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy evict their dog, Laughing Gravy, when their mean, dog-hating landlord (Charlie Hall) finds him and then spend the rest of the freezing night looking for him. The boys come up with […]
Producer-director Robert Youngson’s 1957 cinema feature The Golden Age of Comedy is his deservedly highly popular first trawl through the silent era archives. It is a hilarious compilation of classic scenes from silent comedy, featuring […]
‘So Little Time’ (recorded by Andy Williams on CBS Records) is 55 Days at Peking’s hit song, but you will need plenty of time to settle down to producer Samuel Bronston and director Nicholas Ray’s vast-scale 1900 […]
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