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SMITHY: Discharged from the army, Smithy (Stan Laurel) finds work helping to build a house. A wrongly delivered letter instructs him to complete the construction, but it ends up more like destruction.THUNDERING FLEAS: Starring Our Gang, the team get invited to the wedding of Martha Sleeper and take along their flea collection which somehow escapes during the course of the day.STOLEN JOOLS: Featuring an all-star cast who are attending a Hollywood party when Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen, with Stan and Ollie just two of the many policemen assigned to solve the case.HOME MOVIES: Stan was an avid fan of 'home movies', shooting them on 16mm film. This somewhat historic footage features both Stan and Ollie and Stan's daughter playing in the back garden together with shots of other stars on the Hal Roach lot.THE TREE IN A TEST TUBE: A short film in aid of the war effort, Stan and Ollie show the many uses of wood in the only known colour footage of the pair.

March of The Wooden SoldiersStannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) are well-meaning but brainless toymakers in Toyland. They misinterpret an order from Santa Claus for 600 one foot high toy soldiers and come up instead with 100 six foot high soldiers. But their toy army comes in handy when the evil Barnaby (Henry Brandon) and his furry bogeymen invade Toyland, and the boys end up as heroes when they save the Widow Peep's daughter Bo (Charlotte Henry) from his clutches. This priceless nine reel comedy from veteran Laurel and Hardy producer Hal Roach, was the personal favourite of Oliver Hardy. Better known as 'Babes in Toyland', the film was the best of their feature-length operettas and certainly had the most lavish fantasy sets. It was rarely seen in public after a poor Walt Disney remake in 1961 and, when it was shown, the censors had often butchered it.TV stations considered some scenes in Bogey-land too grim for young children and snipped them out. Early cinema screenings were often without some of the film's charming songs because it was thought that people would only want to see Laural and Hardy going through their comedy paces. Roach originally wanted Laural and Hardy to play Simple Simon and The Pie Man, parts they did in fact 'play' in a 1938 Walt Disney cartoon - 'Mother Goose Goes To Hollywood' - which was nominated for an Academy Award. Brooklyn-born Charlotte Henry, a popular child star of the 1930s and the star of the 1933 film 'Alice in Wonderland', has the lead role of Bo Peep.Bogus BanditsOllie and Stan play Olio and Stanlio, a pair of incompetent bandits who are hired as menservants to Fra Diavolo (The Devil's Brother), a real bandit played by Dennis King who, in his other guise, is known as the Marquis de San Marco - an aristocrat who uses his position to discover the whereabouts of the treasures worn bythe ladies in high society.This film set a popular style which was subsequently seen in such films as 'Zorro', 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' and countless others. It has a pattern which was followed in 'Babes in Toyland' (1934) and 'The Bohemian Girl' (1936), and contains some superb sequences. The story was well chosen by Hal Roach as a good vehicle for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy although it is not one of their major performances; the music can sometimes interfere with the Laurel and Hardy humour but the drinking scene confirms their combined genius and is outstanding. Originally called 'Fra Diavolo', this film is based on the 1830 comic operetta of that name by Daniel F Auber. The film was subsequently called 'The Devil's Brother', 'Bogus Bandits' and 'Virtuous Tramps'.

A collection of classic shorts, with Stan and Ollie finding themselves - mostly - on the wrong side of the law. In Scram! a judge orders them to leave town after finding them guilty of vagrancy. Night Owls sees Stan and Ollie in the same condition, but the local cop is willing to let them go if they are wiling to pose as burglars. Ladrones is an extended Spanish-Language version of Night Owls, with L&H speaking their own dialogue. Stan and Ollie are shaven-headed convicts in The Second Hundred Years. The shaven heads are still visible in a guest appearance made at the same time, in the Max Davidson comedy Call of the Cuckoo. In Duck Soup they elude the sheriff by taking refuge in an empty mansion, posing as owner and maid. Forty-Five Minutes From Hollywood, the first Hal Roach film in which both Laurel and Hardy appeared, casts Oliver Hardy as a hotel detective. The all-time classic Big Business involves them in battle with irascible James Finlayson, following their attempts to sell him a Christmas Tree.Episodes include:SCRAM! - restored black-and-white versionSCRAM! - computer-colour versionNIGHT OWLS - restored black-and-white versionNIGHT OWLS - computer-colour versionLADRONES - Night Owls in an extended Spanish-language edition, with Laurel & Hardy speaking their own dialogue)THE SECOND HUNDRED YEARS - restored black-and-white silent comedy with musicCALL OF THE CUCKOO - restored black-and-white silent comedy with musicDUCK SOUP - restored black-and-white silent comedy with musicFORTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM HOLLYWOOD - restored black-and-white silent comedy with musicBIG BUSINESS - restored black-and-white silent comedy with music

Two classic Laurel & Hardy shorts, accompanied by rare extended-length versions in Spanish - with Stan and Ollie speaking their own dialogue! The theme of this compilation is married life, with supporting actress Anita Garvin playing Mrs. Laurel in Blotto, Be Big and in the latter's Spanish-language equivalent, Los Calaveras. In Blotto, Stan needs to contrive an excuse to spend a night out with Ollie. Mrs. Laurel overhears their plans but decides to go along with them, but not before replacing their bottle genuine booze - this being the Prohibition era - with an entirely different mixture! Be Big starts with Stan and Ollie ready to go away for the weekend with their wives, only to learn that their hunting lodge is holding a testimonial dinner for them that evening. Los Calaveras is a feature-length Spanish edition combining a version of Be Big (incorporating some comedy material unseen in English) with another short of this period, Laughing Gravy.Episodes include: BLOTTO - restored black-and-white versionBLOTTO - computer-colour versionLA VIDA NOCTURNA - Blotto is an extended Spanish-language editionBE BIG - restored black and white versionBE BIG - computer-colour versionLOS CALAVERAS - Be Big and Laughing Gravy Combined into a feature-length Spanish-language edition

A collection of classic Laurel & Hardy shorts based on the misadventures of Oliver Hardy before, during, after or instead of getting married! In Beau Hunks a failed romance prompts Ollie to join the Foreign Legion, taking Stan with him. Our Wife centres around his attempts to elope with his beloved 'Dulcy', with assistance from Stan and as the Best Man helpmates, one of the team's best short comedies, sees Stan and Ollie trying to clean up the residue of a wild party before the return of Mrs. Hardy, while in Me and My Pal Ollie's wedding day is disrupted when Stan arrives with a jigsaw puzzle.

In MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS, Stanley Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) are well-meaning but clueless toymakers in Toyland. They misinterpret an order from Santa Claus for 600 one-foot high toy soldiers, producing with 100 six-foot high soldiers instead. But their toy army comes in handy when the evil Barnaby (Henry Brandon) and his furry Bogeymen invade Toyland and capture Mother Peep's daughter, Bo (Charlotte Henry). Then it's Stanley and Ollie to the rescue in this Laurel and Hardy classic, not to be missed.

In Utopia (their last film together) they set sail for an island Stan has inherited from his late Uncle. On the way, they hit a storm and are beached on an atoll where they find an abundance of uranium. Along with their cook, a stowaway and a girl who is fleeing her fiance, they set up their own government. Oliver is voted their Governor - can he save the island?

The Flying Deuces:Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that Georgette, the innkeeper's daughter he's fallen in love with, is already married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. To forget her, he joins the Legion, taking Stanley with him. Their bumbling eventually gets them charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. Their only hope is escape in a stolen airplane - one problem - they can't fly a plane!Utopia:Stan and Ollie inherit a fortune including an island in the Pacific and a yacht. Unfortunately their money is promptly taken from the bumbling boys by crooked accountants. So they set sail in their yacht for their beautiful Pacific paradise. When a storm drives their yacht onto a newly formed island atoll they decide to form their own country and proceed to write a constitution. A key article of which is no laws! Their problems really start when they discover their idyllic home is made of uranium!The Stolen Jools:A star-packed promotional short originally intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatorium. Laurel and Hardy make an appearance as detectives investigating some missing jewellery owned by the actress Norma Shearer.

Stan and Ollie are on holiday in Paris, where Ollie falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter Georgette. When she rejects Ollie's advances, Ollie decides he and Stan must end it all by jumping into the River Seine. They are talked out of it by a passing French Foreign Legion Officer (Who unknown to the boys is actually Georgette's husband) and persuaded to enlist into the legion in order to forget.

In MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS, Stanley Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) are well-meaning but clueless toymakers in Toyland. They misinterpret an order from Santa Claus for 600 one-foot high toy soldiers, producing with 100 six-foot high soldiers instead. But their toy army comes in handy when the evil Barnaby (Henry Brandon) and his furry Bogeymen invade Toyland and capture Mother Peep's daughter, Bo (Charlotte Henry). Then it's Stanley and Ollie to the rescue in this Laurel and Hardy classic, not to be missed.