DVD
Laurel & Hardy
Call Number
- DVD COMEDY (CEN)
Performers
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy ; with supporting cast.
Publication Information
Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment, c2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (170 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Series
Summary
Sons of the desert (65 min.): The boys sneak off to a convention, telling their wives that Ollie requires a restful cruise to Hawaii to recuperate ... but all is not peaceful when the suspicious wives discover the ship sank.
The music box (30 min.): The Laurel & Hardy Moving Company struggles to deliver a piano to a house at the top of an insurmountable staircase.
Another fine mess (28 min.): Stan and Ollie hide from the police in the seemingly safe confines of a deserted mansion - that is, until some tenants show up! Ollie must pretend to be the owner while Stan becomes both the butler and the maid.
Busy bodies (29 min.): Being employed as carpenters, Stanley and Oliver stumble through a hilarious parade of self-inflicted mishaps, only to retreat hastily ... and drive their car into a band saw.
County hospital (18 min.): Oliver is peacefully recovering from a broken leg, when Stan decides to bring him a present of hard-boiled eggs and nuts. That's not all he delivers, however, and proceeds to almost destroy the place and the people in it.
Notes
DVD format, Region 1 ; Dolby digital mono.
Videodisc release of five digitally remastered classics from the Hal Roach Studios.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Not rated.
Special features include: Hal Roach biography ; Laurel & Hardy biographies ; "Tent society" ; photo montage ; location tour - then and now ; Hal Roach movie mogul ; "King of laughter" tribute ; scene selects.
Presented in a full screen format.