Rent Laurel and Hardy: The Silent Years: 1928 (1928)
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3h 32min
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- Synopsis:
The most celebrated comedy duo in cinema history, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy formed their decades-long partnership in the late 1920s in a series of silent shorts produced at the Hal Roach Studios. Having developed their on-screen chemistry in the likes of Do Detectives Think?, Putting Pants on Philip and The Battle of the Century throughout 1927, Laurel and Hardy forged on as a double act in the last years of the silent era and into the age of talking pictures. This collection brings together the silent Laurel and Hardy shorts produced during 1928, as their partnership began to gather steam: Leave 'em Laughing sees Stan desperately seeking treatment for a toothache; You're Darn Tootin' follows the pair as they turn their hand to busking; in From Soup to Nuts, the boys are hired as waiters for an upper-class dinner party; and in Early to Bed, Ollie gets to enjoy the highlife for himself when he inherits a fortune and buys an opulent mansion. but Stan soon finds ways to lower its market value. This collection also features the first Hal Roach film to officially bill Laurel and Hardy as a duo: Should Married Men Go Home?, in which a relaxing trip to the golf course quickly spirals into chaos.
The set contains the following shorts:
- Leave 'em Laughing
- The Finishing Touch
- From Soup to Nuts
- You're Darn Tootin
- Their Purple Moment
- Should Married Men Go Home?
- Early to Bed
- Two Tars
- Habeas Corpus
- We Faw Down- Actors:
- Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivien Oakland, Bess Flowers, Kay Deslys, Vera White, Allan Cavan, George Kotsonaros, Charlie Hall, Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Edgar Dearing, Otto Fries, Al Hallett, Jack Hill, Jack Lloyd, Sam Lufkin, Viola Richard, Tiny Sandford, Anita Garvin
- Directors:
- Leo McCarey, Clyde Bruckman, Edgar Kennedy, James Parrott, Fred Guiol, Emmett J. Flynn
- Producers:
- Hal Roach
- Writers:
- H.M. Walker, Charlie Hall, Stan Laurel, James Parrott, Charley Rogers, Reed Heustis, Hal Roach, Leo McCarey
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Classics, Comedy, Music & Musicals
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- Release Date:
- 14/04/2025
- Run Time:
- 212 minutes
- Languages:
- English Mono, Silent
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
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- Disc 2:
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