Laurel And Hardy - No. 12 - L And H And The Law - Classic Shorts (DVD)

Laurel & Hardy Volume 12 - L & H and the Law/Classic Shorts
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~Introduction~
The magnificent Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in this wonderfully funny DVD.
So let me take you on a tour of these 7 films.

This single DVD contains the following 7, thats SEVEN films:

Scram - restored black and white version
Scram - computer colour version
...The plot is a typical Laurel and Hardy farce with them at their best.

Night owls
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Police officer Kennedy has failed to detect 42 burglaries in one week; he is the laughing stock of the dept. He is out on the beat when he comes across Stan and Ollie?s asleep on a park bench. He tells them they can get 90 days in jails for vagrancy or do him a little favour.
They are brow beaten into robbing the police chiefs? ... more

Laurel & Hardy Volume 12 - L & H and the Law/Classic Shorts
=====================================

~Introduction~
The magnificent Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in this wonderfully funny DVD.
So let me take you on a tour of these 7 films.

This single DVD contains the following 7, thats SEVEN films:

Scram - restored black and white version
Scram - computer colour version
Night Owls - restored black and white version
Night Owls - computer colour version
Night Owls in Spanish

And 5 silent musicals:

The Second Hundred Years - restored black and white version
Call Of The Cuckoo - restored black and white version
Duck Soup - restored black and white version
Forty-Five Minutes From Hollywood - restored black and white version
Big Business - restored black and white version

A small Synopsis of each movie and my humble opinions on each to follow:

~Synopsis~

Scram
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We see the boys in court for vagrancy and the judge gives them 1 hour to ?Scram? out of town. On their way they meet a friendly drunk and retrieve his car key from a sewer drain.
They all fall down the grid, TWICE!!
He invites them to stay with him at his home.
They go to the wrong house and end up breaking in. The butler awakened by the noise chases the drunk from the house but Stan and Ollie make them selves at home right down to putting on pyjamas.
The real owner comes home, IT?S THE JUDGE !!!!, he finds Stan and Ollie with his wife and goes ballistic.
A real snap shot of the late twenties and thirties. The plot is a typical Laurel and Hardy farce with them at their best.

Night owls
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Police officer Kennedy has failed to detect 42 burglaries in one week; he is the laughing stock of the dept. He is out on the beat when he comes across Stan and Ollie?s asleep on a park bench. He tells them they can get 90 days in jails for vagrancy or do him a little favour.
They are brow beaten into robbing the police chiefs? house to put Kennedy in good with the chief.
?Be as quiet as you can? officer Kennedy tells them, you must be kidding!
They go along with his scheme but are the noisiest and most incompetent house breakers in the world.
Dust bins full of cans and glass constantly get kicked over, a cat runs across Stan?s face and he crashes into Ollie and the cop and all the rubbish.

Finally they get over the wall, where they smash windows, fall into green houses, knock out PC Kennedy with a brick, start fires, set off self playing pianos and generally are the LOUDEST robbers ever. They drive the butler literally nuts!In the end the boys escape and Kennedy is arrested for the robberies.

The silent movies,
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The Second Hundred Years
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The boys play two convicts who whilst tunnelling out of the prison go astray a ?bit? and end up emerging in the wardens office. Eventually escaping they dress as ?Toffs? but it back fires when the Toffs end up coming back to the same prison to inspect it!
Typical L & H farce.

Call Of The Cuckoo
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Filmed immediately after ?The Second Hundred Years?, The boys end up driving their neighbour to distraction by being a pain in the backside to him.
Not that funny this I am sad to say.

Duck Soup
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This was the initial beginning of the Duo as they solidified their characters in this movie.
Stan and Ollie are tramps who crash for the nightin a very swanky deserted mansion, only problem is vsitors turn up the next day and then Ollie pretends to be the manof the house whilst Stan pretends to be the butler on eminute and then the maid the next.
Very funny short and the boys at their best.

Forty-Five Minutes From Hollywood
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The boys mad etheir first rpoper appearance together in this movie. a very unpolished act but a diamond nontheless.
They are not a double act as such but the chemistry is all here. Stan is in trouble in a hollywood hotel and Ollie as the Lobby detective isnthelping him to calm down in fact hes amking things worse.

Big Busines
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A silent movie this one and of course, in Black and White.
With the obligatory organ playing in the background and subtitles throughout.
Stan and Ollie try selling Christmas trees in California!
First the tree gets stuck in the customers door and then Stan?s coat. The customer starts to get annoyed, he destroys a tree then won?t pay for it. All mayhem ensues from this point onwards.
Clothes, watches, front doors, windows, door bells, trees, cars etc?
All done with style and madness.
An early movie this one with a rather slim Ollie. A real snap shot of the late twenties and thirties.

~DVD Features~
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Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital Mono
Region: Region 2
Number of discs: 1
Classification: U
ASIN:
Run Time: 205 minutes
Amazon Price: £0.90 THATS 90p

Greg. 

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