Here comes Christmas, lets get chilled out and some time off with repeats on the telly !
oh,,If I p...
Here comes Christmas, lets get chilled out and some time off with repeats on the telly !
oh,,If I promise to come back with an 'E', THEN REMIND ME !!, I will not be offended.Greg
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Laurel And Hardy - No. 19 - Pardon Us And Related Shorts
==============================This is a single DVD and Contains 3 movies,
Pardon Us, (Main Feature, Black and White) Pardon Us, (Main Feature, COLOURISED) Pardon Us, (German-language version, Black and White) The Hoose-Gow. (Movie short, Black and White) The Hoose-Gow. (Movie short, COLOURISED) The Battle of The Century. (Silent movie short, Black and White)
Pardon Us ======
This is the main feature on the DVD and it is one of their most memorable films. The boys are sent to prison for making the own liquor during prohibition! The innocent boys end up in a cell with Tiger, the toughest prisoner ever to have lived, and Stan starts annoying him with his loose tooth which sounds like a raspberry every time he talks. Tiger offers to remove it for him with his fist. Stan just stares at him and soon the 3 cellies are the best of friends. They escape from prison, by accident, but are quickly recaptured and then pardoned by the warden! And Tiger is a reformed character thanks to the boys ?influence?. A brilliant film and worth the price of the DVD on its own. This was the boys at their best, highly watchable.
Runtime 60 Minutes. Made in 1931.
The Hoose-Gow ========== Stan and Ollie have been sentenced to jail after accidentally being picked up during a police raid. They escape but are shot in the ?pants? by the guard and are soon back on the chain gang. Whilst out digging ditches, somebody gives Stan a pick axe and he is both hilarious and dangerously funny. They wreck the camp, food tent and guard tower. Eventually destroying the governors car and ending up in a food fight which envolves the entire chain gang, prison officers and the governor. The Cast; Stan Laurel as himself Oliver Hardy as himself James Finlayson as the Governor. A real snap shot of the late twenties and thirties. A young Stan and Ollie but their chemistry is clearly evident.
Made in 1929. Run Time 20 Minutes.
The Battle of the Century ====================
A silent movie this one and a very early Stan and Laurel, in fact it also stars a very youthful Lou Costello.
The film is base around prize fighting and Ollie taking out insurance that Stan doesn?t have an accident and then trying to make hi have an accident. It is typical of its era with lots of physical gags and a pie fight at the end that just has to be seen to be believed. A very very funny short film that will not disappoint.
Runtime 20 Minutes Made in 1927
DVD Info: Format: Black & White, Colour, PAL Language English Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital Mono Hearing Impaired: English Region: Region 2 Number of discs: 1 Classification: U ASIN: B0001K2KCU
Greg
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A collection of classic Laurel & Hardy, including their first starring feature film, ... more
Pardon Us, in which they are sent to prison for breaking the Prohibition laws, an earlier short, The Hoose-Gow, where they join a prison road gang and start - of a...