The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy: The Complete Collection, Vol. 6

Starring: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel Director: Clyde Bruckman, Frank Butler, Fred Guiol, Hal Roach, Lloyd French Dvd Release: 25th April, 2000 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Black & White, NTSC, Region 0 Encoding

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Volume 6 of The Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy continues to mix classic shorts with lesser works of historical note. In Thats My Wife, Hardys wife has left him in disgust right before his rich uncle arrives & reminds him that he will inherit everything as long as he is happily married. The only logical thing to do is to have Laurel dress up as Mrs. Hardy. The happy couple take the uncle out for a nice time at a night club, where eventually the truth is revealed & a bowl of soup adds insult to injury. Of all the many times Stan ended up in a dress, this is the best of the bunch. Despite its title Flying Elephants this 1928 Hal Roach-Pathe film directed by Frank is the famous one set in the Stone Age where the King has declared all bachelors must get married or face banishment and/or death! Both Stan & Ollie are interested in the same woman, the daughter of James Finlayson, who has a toothache as an additional concern. Might be the only Laurel & Hardy film where one of the boys kills the other. Putting Pants on Philip, directed in 1927 by Clyde Bruckman, has Hardy as J. Piedmont Mumblethunder who greets Laurel as Philip, his dimwitted nephew from Scotland. The entire point here is to replace Philips kilt with a pair of pants & stop him from chasing every flapper in sight. This is another rare one where the boys work against each other. 45 Minutes From Hollywood is the 1926 Hal Roach two-reeler in which the boys both appear for the first time, although not together. Actually, Stan is made up with a big moustache to look just like Jimmy Finlayson. You will see every contract player on note in the Roach stable except for Charley Chase. Chase & Hardy team in the 1926 short Crazy Like a Fox, while Laurel is represented by another 1926 film, The Soilers in the solo efforts tacked on at the end of this DVD.

Oliver Norvell Hardy was an American film actor. With Stan Laurel, he formed half of perhaps the most famous comedy partnership in film history, Laurel & Hardy. Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia. In his first film, Outwitting Dad, Hardy chose to be billed as O N Hardy, taking his fathers first name as his own. From that time, he referred to himself as Oliver Norvell Hardy & eventually became most commonly known as simply Oliver Hardy. For details of Hardys career see the Laurel & Hardy article. Posters Of Utopia

Editors Choice: Laurel And Hardy Anthology, Laurel And Hardy, Utopia, This Is Your Life, The Fighting Kentuckian, A Chump At Oxford, Way Out West, March Of The Wooden Soldiers, View DVDology

Arthur Stanley Jefferson is better known as comedian Stan Laurel. Early youth Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born on June 16, 1890 in his grandparent’s house in Ulverston, North Lancashire. He was the second of five children. His father, A J Jefferson, managed a number of different theatres, his mother was an actress. Arthur lived with his grandparents until the age of six when he then moved in with his father & began his education. As a child, Laurel liked the theatre so much that when he was nine he set up a theatre in the attic & used neighbourhood child as supporting actors. The first school he went to was in Gainford. He later went to school in Bishop Auckland, Tynemouth & in Glasgow, where he finished his education & went to work in the box office of the Metropole Theatre, which his father managed. His father encouraged him to get into theatre management but Stan had other plans. At sixteen, he went to Mr. E Pickard for a ‘try out’ in his theatre. The act went reasonably well. Although his father did not like the idea, he encouraged him in the field of comedy. Posters Of Utopia

Editors Choice: Laurel And Hardy Anthology, Laurel And Hardy, Utopia, This Is Your Life, A Chump At Oxford, Way Out West, March Of The Wooden Soldiers, Sons Of The Desert, View DVDology

Clyde A Bruckman, was an American writer & director of comedy films during the late silent era as well as the early sound era of cinema. Bruckman collaborated with such legendary comedians as Buster Keaton, W,C. Fields, Laurel & Hardy, The Three Stooges & Harold Lloyd. Bruckman may be best known for his collaborations with Buster Keaton, as Bruckman co-wrote several of Keatons most popular films, including The General, which Bruckman also co-directed. After years of severe alcoholism & very little work due to having been blackballed from the business, Bruckman took his own life in Hollywood, California with a pistol he had borrowed from Buster Keaton. Some reports claim he ended his life in the bathroom of a cafe on Santa Monica Boulevard after failing to pay for a meal, while others claim he was in a nearby phone booth.

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Annie Oakley was a United States sharpshooter in the American West. // She was the daughter of Quakers, Susan & Jacob Moses, who were from Pennsylvania. A fire burned down their tavern so they moved to a rented farm in Patterson Township, Darke County, Ohio. Her father fought in the War of 1812 & died in 1866 from pneumonia & overexposure in freezing weather. Annie was the fifth of seven children. Her mother remarried, had another child & was widowed a second time. During this time Annie was put in the care of the superintendent of the county poor farm, where she learned to embroider & sew. She spent some time in near servitude for a local family where she was met with mental & physical abuse. When she reunited with her family, her mother had married a third time. Oakley began hunting at the age of nine to support her siblings & her widowed mother. She soon became known as a marksman. After defeating a sideshow marksman named Frank E Butler aka Francis Butler, she married him in 1876 in Ohio & became his assistant in his travelling show.

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