After the squad of soldiers leaves the trench and charges toward the front, Stan is accidentally left behind. The war ends and Ollie thinks Stan is dead until he reads a news article about him being found long after the war ended.
He traces him to a military hospital where Ollie thinks Stan has lost a leg and wheels him around and carries him everywhere out of pity until he sees Stan still has two legs.
Ollie then takes Stan home to meet the wife. and so on....
I remember one where they stay in a creepy big house, with a weird creepy butler, and a bat gets under a sheet and flies about, making them think it's a ghost. I think it's another one when they're lost in a maze at night and they think they see a ghost.
I remember one where they stay in a creepy big house, with a weird creepy butler, and a bat gets under a sheet and flies about, making them think it's a ghost. I think it's another one when they're lost in a maze at night and they think they see a ghost.
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case, it's on youtube (in colour).
I remember one where they stay in a creepy big house, with a weird creepy butler, and a bat gets under a sheet and flies about, making them think it's a ghost. I think it's another one when they're lost in a maze at night and they think they see a ghost.
Please excuse how vague this description is, it was some 25 years ago I last saw this one.
But what was the one, I think it was short, where L+H were in the army and there's a scene where Stan is on patrol, guarding something, waiting for Olly to come back I think.
Anyway, he's doing his route march and it cuts back a bit later and he's been marching it for that long his footsteps have dug a trench.
I remember laughing my head off at that as a kid. Would love to see it again.
Apparently when filming their last film Atoll K, Oliver Hardy had suffered a heart attack and Stan Laurel had some kind of disease which he picked up on the set which resulted in him losing loads of weight. It's so sad to see them both clearly suffering in this film.
Stan Laurel was apparently hoping for this film, he would have greater control of the writing and the production like he did back in the Hal Roach pictures, but sadly that wasn't the case and the film makers behind this picture were a foreign company who took over the making of the film and Stan's illness prevented him from having the control he had hoped for also.
Apparently the online petition, which now has over 10,000 signatures, has been passed over to the BBC on Friday. From what I can gather, the BBC has previously said they would look into showing L&H again if the petition gets over 10,000 signatures, so will see what the BBC can do from here
A season of L&H films will be ideal to tie in with the new L&H drama which BBC Comedy are currently making at the moment.
I have every episode and film so can watch whenever I want but I would still welcome seeing them on television again. They are still incredibly funny after all this time.
I honestly think that they are the greatest comedy actors ever.
I host teenage foreign students and put them on for them to watch and even though many of these kids speak no English, they roll about with laughter.
1 of my favourite L&H shorts is Come Clean.The boys go out to buy ice cream & save a woman from committing suicide.
Yes Come Clean is one of my favourites as well
This was one of the first L&H films which first got me into them back in 1992 when I was 13 which was funnily enough shown on BBC2 as part of a double bill being shown at the time, the other short was 'Be Big'. These were shown during the school summer holidays when BBC2 shown L&H quite a lot.
I really miss those Laurel & Hardy double bills BBC2 used to show. Would love to see them again in a similar format, it may make more young L&H fans
I've got a really good feeling about this petition. The number of signatures on it are still rising as well, now up to over 10,300 signatures when I last looked earlier today.
I guess now it all depends on if the BBC are successful in acquiring the licence to show them. I think they got the licence from Universal 15 years ago as they were showing the restored prints so may well try and get them back from them again. It just hinges on the cost of getting the rights back I think, although the L&H fan club have confirmed on Twitter that the costs are definitely not an issue and getting the L&H films back is pretty straight forward.
Here's hoping the BBC finally get the rights back and show a season of L&H films over Christmas
I used to look forward to the Christmas season of L&H. They were shown during the latter part of the Christmas period.
Yes I loved the season BBC2 ran over Christmas 2000. The season started on the Saturday before Christmas and ended on 2nd Jan. I think the Beeb also ran a season during the Christmases of 2001, 2002 and 2003 as well.
They were by far the greatest comedy duo in history by light years - and their films are still as fresh, funny and touching today as when they were first made.
As a horror fan I just love this one for example - only 86 years old.
How many of today's comedians will still be funny in the 22nd century?
Laurel and Hardy will - forever. ^_^
Although the approach was somewhat different I think Abbott and Costello were pretty good too. Laurel has the cultural connection of being English, but A&C had different ways of playing off each other than L&H and those worked too. And if we go beyond duos and just consider comedy teams, then those Marx Brothers fellows were fairly accomplished too, I'd argue.
Stan Laurel did have that wonderful Charlie Chaplin-like quality though (which made sense since he was an understudy for Chaplin at one point).
they are in a car with their wives/family and they keep saying goodbye to the neighbours and their car keeps breaking down and they start with the goodbyes again.
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After the squad of soldiers leaves the trench and charges toward the front, Stan is accidentally left behind. The war ends and Ollie thinks Stan is dead until he reads a news article about him being found long after the war ended.
He traces him to a military hospital where Ollie thinks Stan has lost a leg and wheels him around and carries him everywhere out of pity until he sees Stan still has two legs.
Ollie then takes Stan home to meet the wife. and so on....
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case, it's on youtube (in colour).
The maze one is 'A Chump at Oxford'.
L&H films always look far better in their original black and white format in my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhXBqK6y9R8
Agreed.
I'm not that bothered tbh, can happily watch either. The colourised versions tend to have been restored at the same time though.
I want to see them in 4K now.
It was one of their features called Blockheads.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebn1YOtTIZs
Anyway, who needs an excuse for an L+H marathon!
Stan Laurel was apparently hoping for this film, he would have greater control of the writing and the production like he did back in the Hal Roach pictures, but sadly that wasn't the case and the film makers behind this picture were a foreign company who took over the making of the film and Stan's illness prevented him from having the control he had hoped for also.
Apparently the online petition, which now has over 10,000 signatures, has been passed over to the BBC on Friday. From what I can gather, the BBC has previously said they would look into showing L&H again if the petition gets over 10,000 signatures, so will see what the BBC can do from here
A season of L&H films will be ideal to tie in with the new L&H drama which BBC Comedy are currently making at the moment.
I honestly think that they are the greatest comedy actors ever.
I host teenage foreign students and put them on for them to watch and even though many of these kids speak no English, they roll about with laughter.
Yes Come Clean is one of my favourites as well
This was one of the first L&H films which first got me into them back in 1992 when I was 13 which was funnily enough shown on BBC2 as part of a double bill being shown at the time, the other short was 'Be Big'. These were shown during the school summer holidays when BBC2 shown L&H quite a lot.
I really miss those Laurel & Hardy double bills BBC2 used to show. Would love to see them again in a similar format, it may make more young L&H fans
I guess now it all depends on if the BBC are successful in acquiring the licence to show them. I think they got the licence from Universal 15 years ago as they were showing the restored prints so may well try and get them back from them again. It just hinges on the cost of getting the rights back I think, although the L&H fan club have confirmed on Twitter that the costs are definitely not an issue and getting the L&H films back is pretty straight forward.
Here's hoping the BBC finally get the rights back and show a season of L&H films over Christmas
Yes I loved the season BBC2 ran over Christmas 2000. The season started on the Saturday before Christmas and ended on 2nd Jan. I think the Beeb also ran a season during the Christmases of 2001, 2002 and 2003 as well.
Although the approach was somewhat different I think Abbott and Costello were pretty good too. Laurel has the cultural connection of being English, but A&C had different ways of playing off each other than L&H and those worked too. And if we go beyond duos and just consider comedy teams, then those Marx Brothers fellows were fairly accomplished too, I'd argue.
Stan Laurel did have that wonderful Charlie Chaplin-like quality though (which made sense since he was an understudy for Chaplin at one point).
they are in a car with their wives/family and they keep saying goodbye to the neighbours and their car keeps breaking down and they start with the goodbyes again.
ok thanks, I'll have to see if it's on youtube