Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years 1928 - Masters of Cinema Series|Stan Laurel

Product Code: EKA70541

EAN: 5060000705416
Catalogue Code: EKA70541
Title: Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years 1928 - Masters of Cinema Series,
Principle Contributor: Stan Laurel
Contributors: Clyde Bruckman, Emmett J. Flynn, Fred L. Guiol, Edgar Kennedy, Leo McCarey, James Parrott, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Hal Roach, George Stevens, Len Powers, Floyd Jackman, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Anita Garvin, Kay Deslys, Fay Holderness, Lyle Tayo, Thelma Hill, Ruby Blaine, Richard Carle, Vivien Oakland, Bess Flowers
Genre: Shorts
Produced by Label/Studio: Eureka, 1928
Published by: Eureka, 14 Apr 2025
Format: Blu-ray / Restored (Limited Edition),
Media: 2 disc(s)

Booklet|Commentary: David Kalat (film historian/writer); Patrick Vasey (editor of 'The Laurel & Hardy Magazine'/host of 'The Laurel & Hardy Podcast'); Chris Seguin (film writer); Kyp Harness ('The Art of Laurel & Hardy: Graceful Calamity in the Films'); Glenn Mitchell (The Laurel & Hardy Encyclopedia); Neil Brand.|Documentaries: 'On Location with Laurel and Hardy'.|Image Gallery|Interviews: Neil Brand (silent film accompanist).|Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Scott Saslow; Scores by a variety of silent film composers; Alternate Robert Youngson score on 'The Finishing Touch'; Video essay by David Cairns; Super 8 presentations of 'Dizzy Heights', 'Let 'em Rip', 'Out of Step' and 'The Car Wreckers'.

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Cover Notes: The most celebrated comedy duo in cinema history, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy formed their decades-long partnership in the late 1920s in a series of silent shorts produced at the Hal Roach Studios. Having developed their on-screen chemistry in the likes of Do Detectives Think?, Putting Pants on Philip and The Battle of the Century throughout 1927, Laurel & Hardy forged on as a double act in the last years of the silent era and into the age of talking pictures. This collection brings together the silent Laurel & Hardy shorts produced during 1928, as their partnership began to gather steam: Leave 'em Laughing sees Stan desperately seeking treatment for a toothache; You're Darn Tootin' follows the pair as they turn their hand to busking; in From Soup to Nuts, the boys are hired as waiters for an upper-class dinner party; and in Early to Bed, Ollie gets to enjoy the highlife for himself when he inherits a fortune and buys an opulent mansion. but Stan soon finds ways to lower its market value. This collection also features the first Hal Roach film to officially bill Laurel & Hardy as a duo: Should Married Men Go Home?, in which a relaxing trip to the golf course quickly spirals into chaos. The set contains the following shorts: Leave 'em Laughing, The Finishing Touch, From Soup to Nuts, You're Darn Tootin', Their Purple Moment, Should Married Men Go Home?, Early to Bed, Two Tars, Habeas Corpus and We Faw Down.

Extras: Booklet|Commentary: David Kalat (film historian/writer); Patrick Vasey (editor of 'The Laurel & Hardy Magazine'/host of 'The Laurel & Hardy Podcast'); Chris Seguin (film writer); Kyp Harness ('The Art of Laurel & Hardy: Graceful Calamity in the Films'); Glenn Mitchell (The Laurel & Hardy Encyclopedia); Neil Brand.|Documentaries: 'On Location with Laurel and Hardy'.|Image Gallery|Interviews: Neil Brand (silent film accompanist).|Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Scott Saslow; Scores by a variety of silent film composers; Alternate Robert Youngson score on 'The Finishing Touch'; Video essay by David Cairns; Super 8 presentations of 'Dizzy Heights', 'Let 'em Rip', 'Out of Step' and 'The Car Wreckers'.

More Details: High Definition extras tbc

Even More Details: Language(s): Silent - English intertitles|Interactive Menu|Screen ratio 1 - 1.33:1

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