A luxury liner sails from Naples in 1914 with a boatload of friends and colleagues aboard to scatter the ashes of a great soprano, Edmea Tetua (Janet Suzman), in co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s stylised 1983 theatrical […]
Director Budd Boetticher’s 1953 Wings of the Hawk is a good-quality standard Western from Universal Pictures, with the usual heroics set against a convincingly etched South American backdrop, with solid dialogue and strong bursts of action. […]
Directors Lewis R Foster and Hal Roach’s 1929 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy 20-minute comedy short Unaccustomed As We Are is a fine talkie debut for the boys, though it was made both in sound and silent […]
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 […]
‘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, […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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