‘Neither Mr Laurel nor Mr Hardy had any thoughts of doing wrong. As a matter of fact, they had no thoughts of any kind.’ Director James Parrott and producer Hal Roach’s 1929 The Hoose-Gow is an amusing, outdoors […]
Director Lewis R Foster’s 1929 Double Whoopee is a first-rate Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy 20-minute black and white silent two-reeler short film, in which they play a ritzy hotel’s humble footman and doorman, who […]
Director Clyde A Bruckman and producer Hal Roach’s 1927 Putting Pants on Philip is a swish Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy silent 20-minute two-reeler short film, in which Ollie (as the pompous J Piedmont Mumblethunder) has […]
‘The big fight – ringside seats extended as far west as Honolulu!’ Director Clyde A Bruckman and producer Hal Roach’s 1927 silent short film The Battle of the Century stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, though the team […]
Ollie, French horn player: ‘I wouldn’t mind training a seal or an elephant, but you’re hopeless!’ Director Edgar Kennedy’s 1928 short subject film You’re Darn Tootin’ [The Music Blasters] is one of Stan Laurel and […]
Director Andrew Marton’s 1940 A Little Bit of Heaven is one of those Deanna Durbin-type musical prodigy pictures popular at the time, only this time it is the 14-year-old Gloria Jean who is airing the […]
It is a game of spotting the stars in director Julien Duvivier’s 1942 portmanteau fantasy anthology film Tales of Manhattan that tells of the effect a new, custom-made formal tailcoat has as it changes hands (or […]
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