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In Hog Wild, fixing a radio aerial on the roof turns out to be a real chore. In Come Clean, they save a suicidal woman but try to keep her hidden from their wives when she follows them home. In One Good Turn, they search for food during the depression and endeavor to help an old lady, or so they think. In Me and My Pal, they find themselves torn between getting to an important appointment and being sidelined by a jigsaw puzzle. For those who have never heard of Laurel & Hardy, they were a silent, and later sound comedy duo, who were among the most beloved of any comedy team on film. Over a hundred years after appearring in theaters, their work is still entertaining fans around the globe. will say that some of the shorts not bearing the imprimatur of UCLA in particular can have a softer, more filtered, look, and things can look a bit
The film was marred by several problems including casting / communication issues, illness and script problems. Despite all of this there are some genuinely funny scenes between the two comedy legends. It’s their very last film ending a magnificent career and therefore holds a significant place in their career and the hearts of their fans. For this reason alone it’s a must see! A must for Laurel and Hardy aficionados, “Year One” preserves that precious period when two great clowns became a greater—maybe the greatest—team. This is one of comedy’s great origin stories. Laurel and Hardy continue to endure as one of the all-time great comedy teams. Their work spans from the latter days of the silent film era all the way up through to the early 1950s. Beloved comic icons for generations, most of their work has been and continues to be preserved for all to see. Fresh to the Blu-ray format, Laurel and Hardy: The Definitive Restorations gathers together 21 shorts and 2 features in the best possible quality with a bevy of bonus features. Consists of less than 4 minutes of footage from the condensed pie fight footage, lifted from Robert Youngson's THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY (1957) silent comedy compilation feature.compared to many contemporary outings) along with a glut of shorts, including a reconstructed version of The Battle of the Century, Laurel and Hardy were Hal Roach contract players, and it is clear the legendary producer with his deep bench of comic players—the Our Gang kids, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chase—did not fully appreciate what he had in them. To be fair, neither, apparently, did Laurel and Hardy. According to Leonard Maltin’s indispensable Movie Comedy Teams, Laurel’s response to how he and his screen partner were teamed replied, “We just sort of came together—naturally.” Laurel and Hardy made well over one hundred films of various lengths to their combined credit as a comedy duo (spanning both the silent and
Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations is (are?) presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Kit Parker Films and MVD Visual with AVC encoded I’ll allow readers to wonder through this release at their own speed. It’s not a sit down – one and done situation. Arthur Stanley Jefferson for a time understudied Chaplin in England and the US. Meanwhile Oliver Norvell Hardy was a serviceable role player in comedies and melodramas, yet neither had reached the status of movie star. It became clear upon their teaming up that their contradictory physiques and personalities complimented each other perfectly. The team would go on to do many films together reaching wide acclaim, and eventually becoming nearly unanimously considered by film critics, scholars, and movie fans alike, the funniest comedy duo in film history. out The Flying Deuces and Legend offering March of the Wooden Soldiers and then March of the Wooden Soldiers 3D, butLaurel & Hardy On-Location – A Video Essay by historian John Bengtson on selected location exteriors You are probably aware by now that I’m a big Laurel and Hardy and my dream is to see all of the films fully restored and released on to Blu-ray. Work is on going on some of the films whilst there are already several available on Blu-ray such as The Flying Deuces and March of the Wooden Soldiers. What is the last Laurel and Hardy film? Well thankfully the BFI have just released it on to blu-ray. Atoll K (1951) aka Utopia is indeed the duos final screen appearance. So without further ado here’s my Atoll K blu-ray review. Galleries all feature some prefatory explanatory text which is often very interesting: • Sons of the Desert • Publicity Portraits (1080p; 3:31)
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