Rent Laurel and Hardy: The Silent Years: 1928 (1928)
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5h 15min
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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. - 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
- Aka:
- We Slip Up
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Classics, Comedy, Music & Musicals
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 14/04/2025
- Run Time:
- 315 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Stereo, Silent
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Scores by a variety of silent film composers
- New audio commentaries on 'Leave 'em Laughing' and 'From Soup to Nuts' by film historian and writer David Kalat
- New audio commentaries on 'The Finishing Touch' and 'Habeas Corpus' by Patrick Vasey, editor of 'The Laurel and Hardy Magazine' and host of 'The Laurel and Hardy Podcast'
- New audio commentaries on 'Early to Bed' and 'We Faw Down' by film writer Chris Seguin and Kyp Harness, author of 'The Art of Laurel and Hardy: Graceful Calamity in the Films'
- New audio commentaries on 'Should Married Men Go Home?' and 'Two Tars' by Glenn Mitchell, author of 'The Laurel and Hardy Encyclopedia'
- New audio commentaries on 'You're Dam Tootin' and 'Their Purple Moment' by silent film accompanist Neil Brand
- Alternate Skeets Alquist score on 'The Finishing Touch', newly restored by Stephen C. Horne
- New interview with Neil Brand
- United We Fall - new feature-length documentary by David Cairns and Fiona Watson
- Now I'll Tell One (1927) - surviving fragment of a Charley Chase two-reeler featuring Laurel and Hardy with optional audio commentary by Chris Seguin and Glenn Mitchell
- Robert Youngson Tribute - new featurette by Scott MacGillivray, author of 'Laurel and Hardy: From the Forties Forward'
- 'Let 'em Rip', 'Out of Step', 'The Car Wreckers' and 'A Right Mess' - Super 8 cut downs of Laurel and Hardy shorts
- Stan Laurel Home Movies - rarely seen home movie footage
- Stills Galleries
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes 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
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following shorts:
- Two Tars
- Habeas Corpus
- We Faw Down
- Now I'll Tell One
- Special Features
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