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The Laurel & Hardy Collection DVD
Featured are five silent short comedies featuring Stan Laurel or Oliver Hardy in early solo roles. "The Home Wrecker" (1924) finds Stan as a laborer given a job as a building foreman without prior experience. AKA: "Smithy." Next, scheming driver Ollie tries to stop rival Larry Semon from winning a big race--and the girl--in "The Four Wheel Terror" (1924) AKA: "Kid Speed." Explorer Laurel runs into all sorts of animals in "Roughest Africa" (1923); millionaire Ollie promises to make his intended wife a big star if she marries him in "Crazy to Act" (1927); and in "The Paperhanger's Helper" (1925), paperhanger Hardy answers a call from a mental hospital. AKA: "Stick Around." 80 min.

Laurel & Hardy & Friends, Vol. 1 VHS
This collection of laugh-filled shorts features silent solo turns by Stan Laurel in "Hustling for Health" (1928) and Oliver Hardy in "Along Came Auntie" (1918), followed by fellow Hal Roach Studio alumni Our Gang in "School's Out" (1930); Edgar Kennedy in "Motor Maniacs" (1946); and "When Wifey's Away" (1941), starring Leon Errol. 94 min.

Laurel & Hardy & Friends, Vol. 2 VHS
Stan and Ollie appear as asylum inmates who make life miserable for neighbor Max Davidson in the silent comedy "Call of the Cuckoo" (1927). Other gems in this volume include the Edgar Kennedy shorts "A Quiet Fourth" (1941) and "Hold Your Temper" (1943), plus Hal Roach's kid-detective whodunit "Who Killed Doc Robbin?" (1947). 99 min.

Laurel & Hardy & Friends, Vol. 3 VHS
Handyman Stan Laurel is the dupe a neglected wife uses to make her husband jealous, and Oliver Hardy plays the family butler, in "Slipping Wives" (1927). Next, Harry Langdon plays a love-starved reporter in "The Big Flash" (1932); Harold Lloyd has a cameo in the silent Our Gang short "Dogs of War" (1923); and Edgar Kennedy slowly burns in "I'll Fix That" (1941). 102 min.

Laurel & Hardy & Friends, Vol. 4 VHS
Although not working as a team, Stan and Ollie first appeared together in the Hal Roach comedy "Forty-Five Minutes from Hollywood" (1926), a slapstick look at California life. Laurel also stars, sans Hardy, in "Scorching Sands" (1923); Our Gang goes camping in "Bear Shooters" (1930); and James Gleason stars in the Roach "streamliner" musical "Hay Foot" (1941). 104 min.

Laurel & Hardy & Friends, Vol. 5 VHS
"On the Front Page" (1926), a Stan Laurel solo comedy, is followed by the thin one co-starring with Ollie in "Sailors Beware" (1927). The duo also make a cameo as hitchhikers in the Charley Chase short "On the Wrong Trek" (1936), followed by Our Gang in "Derby Day" (1923) and Edgar Kennedy in "Duck Soup" (1942). 96 min.

Laurel & Hardy & Friends, Vol. 6 VHS
Follow Stan Laurel into "Roughest Africa" (1923) and Oliver Hardy as "Cupid's Rival" (1923), two silent rib-ticklers from the duo's pre-team days. Next, the original Our Gang kids crash "High Society" (1924), followed by the early Technicolor featurette "Fiesta" (1941). 119 min.

Laurel & Hardy & Friends, Vol. 7 VHS
Stan and Ollie are just part of an all-star cast that includes Wallace Beery, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Buster Keaton, Our Gang and Edward G. Robinson in the Masquers Club benefit short "The Stolen Jools" (1931). Then, Edgar Kennedy slowly burns in "The Big Beef" (1945) and "Brick-a-Brac" (1935); Our Gang answers "The Fourth Alarm" (1926); and Laurel goes solo in "Oranges and Lemons" (1923). 95 min.

Laurel & Hardy & Friends, Vol. 8 VHS
Ollie appears with Clyde Cook in the nautical comedy "Should Sailors Marry?" (1925), while Stan stars in "The Soilers" (1923), with frequent L&H foil James Finlayson. Harry Langdon has roadside troubles in "The Hitch-Hiker" (1933), followed by "Our Gang Follies of 1938" (1937) and "Rough on Rents" (1942), starring Edgar Kennedy. 91 min.

Laurel & Hardy & Friends, Vol. 9 VHS
The fellas are spotlighted in early solo turns, with Stan starring in "Short Kilts" (1924) and Ollie in "Bromo and Juliet" (1926). Next, Leon Errol plays opposite a young Veronica Lake in "The Wrong Room" (1939); Our Gang stars in "Good Cheer" (1926); and Edgar Kennedy learns to "Act Your Age" (1939). 102 min.

Laurel & Hardy & Friends, Vol. 10 VHS
"Love 'Em and Weep" (1927), which the boys later remade as "Chickens Come Home," finds candidate Ollie being blackmailed by an old flame. Hardy also appears with Charley Chase in "Fluttering Hearts" (1927), followed by Edgar Kennedy in "Radio Rampage" (1944) and "Sock Me to Sleep" (1935) and the Our Gang short "Monkey Business" (1926). 106 min.

The Laurel & Hardy Collection - 5 Disc Set DVD
Five-disc set includes the feature films "The Flying Deuces," "March of the Wooden Soldiers" and "Utopia"; the shorts "Be Big!" and "A Lucky Dog"; plus the boys' appearance on "This Is Your Life," and the program "Laurel and Hardy at the Movies." 350 min

The Lost Films Of Laurel & Hardy, Vol. 2 DVD
Taking a job as hotel doormen, Stan and Ollie are mistaken for a Prussian prince and his associate in "Double Whoopee" (1929); after inheriting a fortune and hiring Stan as his butler, Ollie turns into a bullying boss in "Early to Bed" (1928); it takes a lot to get their goat...especially when the boys go to outrageous lengths to hide the stray animal from their landlord in "Angora Love" (1929); when drunken oil tycoon James Finlayson wakes up married to a golddigger, he turns to Laurel and Hardy for help in "Sugar Daddies" (1927); explorer Laurel runs into all sorts of animals in "Roughest Africa" (1923); and Stan gets into trouble on his own as an inept citrus grove worker in "Oranges and Lemons" (1923). 118 min. Silent with music score.

The Lost Films Of Laurel & Hardy, Vol. 4 DVD
Ollie's sneezing and wheezing prompts Stan to try to figure out a way to rid his pal of a cold in the sound short "They Go Boom!" (1929); "Their Purple Moment" (1928) finds them holding out their weekly pay from their wives--and getting caught in the act; in "Bacon Grabbers" (1929), the boys are process servers trying to repossess a radio from debtor Edgar Kennedy; the silent version of "Unaccustomed as We Are" (1929) has Ollie's promise to Stan of a home-cooked meal yielding a good deed by a blonde neighbor; Ollie is a bowler-hatted doctor in "Should Sailors Marry?" (1925); Charley Chase's "On the Wrong Trek" (1936) is a vacation romp with Laurel and Hardy as hitchhikers. 120 min.

The Lost Films Of Laurel & Hardy, Vol. 7 DVD
The sound version of "Unaccustomed as We Are" (1929) has Ollie's promise to Stan of a home-cooked meal yielding a good deed by a blonde neighbor; Ollie and wife Kay Deslys are trying to spend a quiet day at home when Laurel comes calling in "Should Married Men Go Home?" (1928); Stan plays a book salesman who thinks he's Napoleon in "Mixed Nuts" (1925); Laurel is a cab driver who ends up on a cruise ship where he's forced to work under purser Hardy in "Sailors, Beware!" (1927); taking a job as hotel doormen, Stan and Ollie are mistaken for a Prussian prince and his associate in "Double Whoopee" (1929); the boys are members of an Army Reserve unit on a weekend exercise in "With Love and Hisses" (1927). 130 min. total. Silent with music score, except where noted.

The Lost Films Of Laurel & Hardy, Vol. 8 DVD
Laurel and Hardy are sailors on leave in the "retribution" classic "Two Tars" (1929); in their first "official" teaming "The Second Hundred Years" (1927), the pair are convicts who tunnel out of prison and pose as painters; handyman Stan is hired by neglected wife Priscilla Dean to make her husband jealous, much to the disapproval of butler Ollie in "Slipping Wives" (1928); a wealthy married couple wind up with inept waiters Stan and Ollie when they throw an extravagant dinner party in "From Soup to Nuts" (1928); Stan joins the French Foreign Legion in "Scorching Sands" (1923) and plays dim-bulb "Texas Tommy" in "Should Tall Men Marry?" (1927); 129 min. Silent with music score.

The Lost Films Of Laurel & Hardy, Vol. 9 DVD
Laurel and Hardy are band members whose playing drives the local townsfolk into a violent frenzy in "You're Darn Tootin'" (1928); Ollie is first mate on a ship who helps his brutal superior kidnap meek sailor Stan's girlfriend in "Why Girls Love Sailors" (1927); "Battle of the Century" (1927) is Stan and Ollie's parody of the Dempsey-Tunney fight; Stan directs "Wandering Papas" (1926) which stars Clyde Cook as a chef who gets mistaken for a bridge engineer; Ollie joins the Little Rascals for "Thundering Fleas" (1926); "Mum's the Word" (1926) for Charley Chase when he poses as a butler to hide his identity from his mother's new husband. 132 min. Silent with music score.

The All New Adventures Of Laurel & Hardy: For Love Or Mummy (1999) DVD
The beloved comedy duo is re-created for a new generation, as Stan (Bronson Pinchot) and Ollie (Gailard Sartain) serve as escorts for a museum's Egyptian exhibit. When a 3,000-year-old mummy is missing and they're blamed, the boys find themselves pursued by the police, the museum authorities, and the now-living mummy. F. Murray Abraham also stars. 84 min.

Laurel & Hardy, Vol. 1 (Sons Of The Desert) DVD
Academy Award® Winner: Best Comedy Short
It's a heapin' helpin' of hilarity with five flicks from the famed funnymen. First up is the feature "Sons of the Desert" (1933), one of Stan and Ollie's finest efforts, where the boys attend a lodge convention against their wives' wishes...and get into oodles of trouble. Co-stars Charley Chase, Mae Busch. Followed by four shorts: the Oscar-winning "The Music Box" (1932), where the pair struggle to deliver a piano to a hilltop house; "Another Fine Mess" (1930), in which the boys hide out from the cops in a swank mansion; "Busy Bodies" (1933) finds them making sawdust of a lumber company; and "County Hospital" (1932) has Stan visiting a laid-up Ollie in the hospital...with predictable results. 170 min.

Laurel & Hardy, Vol. 2 (Way Out West/Block-Heads) DVD
One of the screen's most dynamic duos returns for a trio of comedic treasures. First, a young woman in the Wild West town of Bushwood Gulch is about to lose her father's deed to land grabbers, when galloping to the rescue come...Laurel and Hardy? The feature-length frontier farce "Way Out West" (1937) includes the classic song "Trail of the Lonesome Pine." With Rosina Lawrence, Stanley Fields. Next, Ollie is reunited in a veterans hospital with old army pal Stan, who stayed in the trenches for 20 years because no one told him the war was over. Trouble--and hilarity--ensue in the feature "Block-Heads" (1938). With Billy Gilbert, Patricia Ellis. And in the short "Chickens Come Home" (1931), happily married mayoral candidate Ollie has to turn to Stan for help when an old flame returns.

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