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Laurel & Hardy: Early Silent Classics Volume 6
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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LaureI and Hardy are the most recognized comedy duo the cinema has produced. The fiIm that introduced them as the "Stan and OlIie" characters we know so weII today was 1927's Do Detectives Think? Before that, Stan LaureI (from EngIand) and OIiver Hardy (from America) had Iong solo careers, as this colIection of rare and hiIarious comedies shows.
Hardy entered movies in 1913, LaureI in 1917. Stan often played sharp-witted types, whiIe OlIie was usuaIly a "heavy", or villain. By the late 1920's, both were employed at the Roach Studios, stilI playing different roIes, with LaureI aIso gag-writing and even directing CharIey Chase, James FinIayson, Our Gang - and OIiver Hardy!
Producer Hal Roach played "comic roulette," teaming his stars in the hopes of hitting box office goId. Stan and OIlie made their first appearance together in Lucky Dog (1921), but it would be another few before they truIy become a team. This collection showcases the comic genius of two great performers on the road to fame - Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy.
THE BATTLE ROYAL (1916): OIIie was initiaIIy teamed with sIim, acrobatic BiIIy Ruge as "Plump and Runt". Many fiIm historians feel they were the prototype for the Laurel & Hardy dynamic. In The BattIe RoyaI, PIump and Runt are on opposite sides of a hiIlbilly famiIy feud.
HUNGRY HEARTS (1916): Plump (Hardy) and Runt (Ruge) are starving artists competing for a gorgeous figure model. Hardy made the "PIump and Runt" films for the short-lived Vim Studios in JacksonvilIe, Florida. He quit after learning that studio executives were stealing from the payroIl.
JUST RAMBLlNG ALONG (1918): Stan foIlows a bathing beauty at Coney IsIand into a diner, but the joke's on him when he gets stuck with the tab. This short is the earIiest known surviving work of Stan LaureI, and his first for producer Hal Roach.
NOON WHlSTLE (1923): Stan is a Iazy empIoyee at a lumber company ordered to "shape up" by his boss (James Finlayson). He proves himseIf when he inadvertently foiIs a robbery at the Iast minute.
STlCK AROUND (1925): Hardy is teamed with Bobby Day another skinny, effeminate comedian who seems to be a precursor to LaureI. They are are hired to wallpaper a sanitarium where the staff is nuttier than the patients. Both are so busy trying to make time with a flirtatious nurse that neither reaIizes they've accidentalIy brought the wrong wallpaper!
CRAZY TO ACT (1927): OlIie plays millionaire movie producer Gordon Begley, who promises pretty young MiIdred June that he'II make her "a bigger star than PoIa Pickford" if she'll just marry him. UnfortunateIy, she's aIready in love with Matty Kemp, the leading man of Begley's latest picture. This is the only fiIm Hardy made for Mack Sennett Hal Roach Ioaned him to the studio for just this one short. |
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