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Post subject: [2011-10-25] Laurel & Hardy "The Essential Collection" DVD 10-disc set (Vivendi)
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:00 am
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This is awesome news. The only L & H material I've ever seen on DVD are the crappy MGM features of the 1940's. This may be the first truly worthy L & H package, not just of the DVD era, but the home video era--back in the early 80's, Blackhawk Films (which also sold 16mm and Super 8 prints of Hal Roach L & H shorts and features) released a handful of home video compilations, and in the 90's I managed to pick up some cheap VHS tapes of "Sons Of The Desert" (one of the funniest movies ever made) and "Way Out West", but I haven't seen any of the Hal Roach shorts since I was a teenager, when WKBD 50 in Detroit used to show them at midnight on alternate weeks.
Post subject: [2011-10-25] Laurel & Hardy "The Essential Collection" DVD 10-disc set (Vivendi)
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:08 am
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The Music Box is the greatest "short" of all time. The staircase where it was filmed can still be found on line.
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Post subject: [2011-10-25] Laurel & Hardy "The Essential Collection" DVD 10-disc set (Vivendi)
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:12 pm
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The pre-order price on this has dropped to $65.99. Also, there is a listing of the disc contents floating around:
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DISC 1: UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE 1929 BERTH MARKS 1929 MEN O' WAR 1929 PERFECT DAY 1929 THEY GO BOOM 1929 THE HOOSE-GOW 1929 NIGHT OWLS 1930 LADRONES (Night Owls, Spanish) 1930 BLOTTO 1930
DISC 2: LA VIDA NOCTURNA (Blotto, Spanish) 1930 BRATS 1937 [reissue, new LeRoy Shield musical score] BRATS 1930 [original score of stock jazz-band records] BELOW ZERO 1930 TIEMBLA Y TITUBEA (Below Zero, Spanish) 1930 HOG WILD 1930 THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE 1930 NOCHE DE DUENDES (The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case & Berth Marks, Spanish) 1930 ANOTHER FINE MESS 1930
DISC 3: BE BIG! 1931 CHICKENS COME HOME 1931 POLITIQUERIAS (Chickens Come Home, Spanish) 1931 LAUGHING GRAVY 1931 LES CAROTTIERS (Feature: Be Big! & Laughing Gravy, French) 1931
DISC 4: LOS CALAVERAS (Feature: Be Big! & Laughing Gravy, Spanish) 1931 OUR WIFE 1931 PARDON US (Feature, extended version) 1931 COME CLEAN 1931 ONE GOOD TURN 1931 BEAU HUNKS 1931
DISC 5: HELPMATES 1932 ANY OLD PORT 1932 THE MUSIC BOX 1932 THE CHIMP 1932 COUNTY HOSPITAL 1932 SCRAM! 1932 PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES (Feature) 1932 THEIR FIRST MISTAKE 1932
DISC 6: TOWED IN A HOLE 1933 TWICE TWO 1933 ME AND MY PAL 1933 THE MIDNIGHT PATROL 1933 BUSY BODIES 1933 DIRTY WORK 1933 SONS OF THE DESERT (Feature) 1933 OLIVER THE EIGHTH 1934 GOING BYE-BYE! 1934
DISC 7: THEM THAR HILLS 1934 THE LIVE GHOST 1934 TIT FOR TAT 1935 THE FIXER UPPERS 1935 THICKER THAN WATER 1935 THE BOHEMIAN GIRL (Feature) 1936
DISC 8: OUR RELATIONS (Feature) 1936 WAY OUT WEST (Feature) 1937 SWISS MISS (Feature) 1938
DISC 9: BLOCK-HEADS (Feature) 1938 A CHUMP AT OXFORD (42 min.) 1940 A CHUMP AT OXFORD (Feature, 63 min.) 1940 SAPS AT SEA (Feature) 1940
DISC 10: SPECIAL FEATURES A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy On Location with the Boys: tour of set locations and interactive map Laurel & Hardy Guest Appearances Laurel & Hardy Trailers
Post subject: [2011-10-25] Laurel & Hardy "The Essential Collection" DVD 10-disc set (Vivendi)
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 11:27 pm
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I've finally got around to starting to view these (they wouldn't play in my laptop, but they're running just fine in the iMac I've borrowed from my college). Great stuff. I find myself laughing out loud at some of the pratfall material. Which is odd, because things like that in the Three Stooges really do nothing for me. There's just something about how Stan Laurel can pull it off.
It's also interesting to me to see extended versions of these films. Well, not so much extended as uncut. Many of them I've only seen on Sunday morning TV in the 1970s or on my Dad's 8mm films of them. The 8mm films were often abridged, and likely the TV episodes were trimmed for time constraints.
Post subject: [2011-10-25] Laurel & Hardy "The Essential Collection" DVD 10-disc set (Vivendi)
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:52 am
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Just this past June, missing footage from "The Battle Of The Century"--a silent Laurel & Hardy short long thought to exist only in an incomplete form--was discovered: http://silentlondon.co.uk/2015/06/15/se ... pie-fight/
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Post subject: [2011-10-25] Laurel & Hardy "The Essential Collection" DVD 10-disc set (Vivendi)
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:45 am
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Beachy wrote:
I've finally got around to starting to view these (they wouldn't play in my laptop, but they're running just fine in the iMac I've borrowed from my college). Great stuff. I find myself laughing out loud at some of the pratfall material. Which is odd, because things like that in the Three Stooges really do nothing for me. There's just something about how Stan Laurel can pull it off.
The Three Stooges lifted the opening scene of Towed In A Hole for one of their shorts,almost word for word. They also stole a lot from Keaton,including the "Curly shuffle" move (see Keaton's Three Ages). Stooges? The Three Copycats is more like it.
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