Derek Winnert

Block-Heads **** (1938, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell, Billy Gilbert, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7372

Director John G Blystone’s 1938 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy Block-Heads was planned as the boys’ final feature film, and it was their swan-song with their producer Hal Roach at Hal Roach Studios and […]

Jul, 29 · in Reviews

Big Business ***** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Tiny Sandford) – Classic Movie Review 7371

‘The story of a man who turned the other cheek and got punched in the nose.’ Director James W Horne’s 1929 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy 20-minute comedy short Big Business is a hilariously funny, […]

Jul, 29 · in Uncategorized

We Faw Down [We Slip Up] ** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivien Oakland, Bess Flowers) – Classic Movie Review 7370

‘This story is based on the assumption that, somewhere in the world, there are husbands who do not tell their wives everything.’ Ah, ha! Director Leo McCarey’s 1928 We Faw Down [We Slip Up] is […]

Jul, 29

Twice Two ** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Baldwin Cooke) – Classic Movie Review 7369

Director James Parrott’s 1933 20-minute short Twice Two finds Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy playing both themselves and, creepily but hilariously, each other’s wives. It is a year since Stan married Ollie’s sister and Ollie […]

Jul, 29

The Bohemian Girl *** (1936, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Thelma Todd, Antonio Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 7368

Directors James W Horne and Charles [Charley] R Rogers’s 1936 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy The Bohemian Girl is another of their operetta send-ups, following The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] (1933). Laurel and Hardy […]

Jul, 29

Our Relations **** (1936, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Alan Hale Sr, Sidney Toler) – Classic Movie Review 7367

Director Harry Lachman’s 1936 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy movie Our Relations is a clever, funny comedy of endless errors from a story by W W Jacobs, The Money Box, with many fine sequences, especially […]

Jul, 29

Sons of the Desert [Fraternally Yours] ***** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase) – Classic Movie Review 7366

Director William A Seiter’s 1934 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy Sons of the Desert [Fraternally Yours], an extended remake of one of their silent shorts, the 1928 We Faw Down [We Slip Up], is one of […]

Jul, 29

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