Rent Laurel and Hardy: The Silent Years 1929 (1929)
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- Synopsis:
Two of the most talented comedians to ever grace the silver screen, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy had firmly established their enduring partnership by the time the age of talking pictures loomed at the end of the 1920s. As they made their final silent shorts together in 1929, they continued to build upon the double act forged in earlier films such as 'You're Darn Tootin', 'Should Married Men Go Home?' and 'We Faw Down' - and prepared themselves for success in the sound era. This collection brings together the silent Laurel and Hardy shorts produced in 1929, as the Boys reached new levels of fame and success: Libertycasts Stan and Ollie as fugitives on the run; in 'Wrong Again', the Boys try to claim a reward by returning a lost horse to a bewildered millionaire seeking a stolen painting; 'That's My Wife' sees Stan pose as Ollie's spouse; in 'Big Business', the Boys go door-to-door selling Christmas trees; 'Double Whoopee' sees them take jobs at a fancy hotel; in 'Bacon Grabbers', Stan and Ollie are bailiffs tasked with recovering a radio; in 'Angora Love', they try to conceal a goat that has become very, very attached to them; in 'Unaccustomed As We Are', Ollie invites Stan over for dinner and attracts the ire of Mrs Hardy; and, finally, 'Berth Marks' has the pair cause abject chaos on a sleeper train. - Actors:
- Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Aubrey, Harry Bernard, Dorothy Christy, William Courtright, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin, Tom Mintz, Vivien Oakland, Josephine Crowell, William Gillespie, Dell Henderson, Jack Hill, Fred Holmes, Fred Kelsey, Anders Randolf, Tom Kennedy, James Finlayson, Jean Harlow
- Directors:
- Lloyd French, Leo McCarey, James W. Horne, Lewis R. Foster, Hal Roach, Clayde Bruckman, Emmett J. Flynn, Fred L. Guiol, Edgar Kennedy, James Parrott
- Producers:
- Hal Roach
- Writers:
- Leo McCarey, H.M. Walker, Lewis R. Foster, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Charley Rogers, James Parrott, Charlie Hall, Hal Roach
- Aka:
- Liberty / Wrong Again / That's My Wife / Big Business / Double Whoopee / Bacon Grabbers / Angora Love / Unaccustomed As We Are / Berth Marks
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Classics, Comedy
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- Release Date:
- 20/07/2026
- Run Time:
- 181 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dubbed LPCM Mono, Silent, Spanish LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Scores by Robert Israel (Angora Love, Big Business and Double Whoopee), Neil Brand (Bacon Grabbers, Wrong Again and That's My Wife), Andreas Benz (That's My Wife, Unaccustomed As We Are and Berth Marks), Maud Nelissen (Big Business, Liberty) and Gaylord Carter (Big Business)
- Original 1929 Vitaphone tracks on select shorts
- Skeets Alquist score for Liberty from Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's, newly restored by Stephen Horne
- Alternate sound version of 'Unaccustomed As We Are'
- Alternate dubbed version of 'Double Whoopee'
- New audio commentaries on 'Liberty' and 'Berth Marks' 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 'Double Whoopee', 'Unaccustomed As We Are' and 'Wrong Again' by film historian and writer David Kalat
- New audio commentaries on 'Big Business' and 'Angora Love' by silent film accompanist Neil Brand
- New audio commentaries on 'That's My Wife' and 'Bacon Grabbers' by Glenn Mitchell, author of 'The Laurel and Hardy Encyclopedia'
- Audio commentaries on the sound version of 'Unaccustomed As We Are' by Chris Seguin and Patrick Vasey, editor of 'The Laurel and Hardy Magazine' and host of 'The Laurel and Hardy Podcast'
- 1929 sound shorts 'They Go Boom!' and 'The Hoose-Gow'
- Glorious Disaster - new documentary by David Cairns and Fiona Watson
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (excerpt)
- Spanish Version of Berth Marks (fragment)
- 'The Tree in a Test Tube' -1942 short film featuring Laurel and Hardy, with optional audio commentary by Chris Seguin
- 'Hop to It!' - 1925 silent short featuring Oliver Hardy, with optional audio commentary by David Kalat
- From Silent to Radio - archive of Laurel and Hardy audio appearances including "The Wedding Night" (1943), "Mr Slater's Poultry Market" (1944) and an advert for the National War Disabled Association (1947)
- Alternate Super 8 versions of 'Liberty', 'Big Business' and 'The Hoose-Gow'
- Newsreel footage of Laurel and Hardy
- Stills Gallery
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following classic short films:
- Liberty
- Wrong Again
- That's My Wife
- Big Business
- Double Whoopee
- Double Whoopee (Sound Version)
- Bacon Grabbers
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following classic short films:
- Angora Love
- Unaccustomed As We Are
- Unaccustomed As We Are (Sound Version)
- Berth Marks
- Special Features
