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45 Minutes from Hollywood

45 Minutes From Hollywood is a 1926 American two-reel silent film released by Pathé Exchange. At the time, it was known as a Glenn Tryon vehicle, but today it is best remembered as the second instance of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appearing in the...

A Chump at Oxford

A Chump at Oxford, directed by Alfred J. Goulding and released in 1940 by United Artists, was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Hal Roach studios. Originally released as a featurette at forty minutes long, twenty minutes were later...

A Lucky Dog

For other uses, see Lucky dog (disambiguation) The Lucky Dog (1921) is the first film to include both members of the famous comedy duo of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, later known as Laurel and Hardy and is the first occasion that they worked...

A-Haunting We Will Go

A-Haunting We Will Go is a 1942 Laurel and Hardy comedy film produced by Sol M. Wurtzel, and directed by Alfred L. Werker. The story is credited to Lou Breslow and Stanley Rauh. Laurel & Hardy have to take a not so dead body to Dayton after being...

Air Raid Wardens

Air Raid Wardens is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy comedy film. This was the first of their films made at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Set during World War II, Stan and Ollie try their hand at various business ventures. Their store opens and closes in various...

Angora Love

Angora Love is a 1929 short comedy silent film starring Laurel and Hardy. When a goat follows them to their apartment, they attempt to bathe it and keep it hidden from the landlord. It is notable as being their last silent film. Many jokes from the...

Another Fine Mess

Another Fine Mess is a 1930 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. It is based on a 1908 play by Arthur J. Jefferson, Stan Laurel's father, and is a remake of the 1927 film Duck Soup. The title of the movie is Hardy's famous catchphrase ...

Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical film released in November 1934. The film is also known by its alternate titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet (the 1948 European reissue title), March of the Wooden Soldiers and Wooden...

Bacon Grabbers

Bacon Grabbers is a 1929 silent comedy short starring Laurel and Hardy as attachment officers trying to repossess Edgar Kennedy's console radio. The title is 1920s slang for what today would be called "repo men." Kennedy's wife is played by Jean...

Beau Hunks

Beau Hunks is a 1931 movie starring Laurel and Hardy and directed by James W. Horne. Beau Hunks is both a reference to Beau Geste and a pun on the mild ethnic slur Bohunk (a portmanteau of "Bohemian" and "Hungarian."). At 37 minutes long—four reels...

Berth Marks

Berth Marks is a 1929 short comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. The story involves Stan and Ollie as two musicians attempting to travel by train to Potsville. It was only their second sound film, but a silent version was also made for cinemas at the...

Big Business

Big Business is a 1929 silent Laurel and Hardy comedy short subject directed by James W. Horne and supervised by Leo McCarey from a McCarey (uncredited) and H. M. Walker script. The film was deemed culturally significant and entered into the United...

Block-Heads

Block-Heads is a 1938 comedy film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, produced by Hal Roach Studios for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, a reworking of elements from the Laurel and Hardy shorts We Faw Down (1928) and Unaccustomed As We Are (1929),...

Bonnie Scotland

Bonnie Scotland is a 1935 feature film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, produced by Hal Roach for Hal Roach Studios and directed by James W. Horne. Laurel and Hardy travel to Scotland, as Laurel (or "Stanley McLaurel") believes he is heir to...

Busy Bodies

Busy Bodies is a 1933 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. A series of gags set in a sawmill, it is often regarded as one of their best sound shorts despite there being virtually no plot. Stan and Ollie arrive in high spirits for their new...

Call of the Cuckoos

Call Of The Cuckoo is a Hal Roach two reel silent film from 1927. Its principle star is Jewish comedian Max Davidson, though the film is just as well known for cameos from other Roach stars at the time - renowned bit player Jimmy Finlayson (the...

Do Detectives Think

Do Detectives Think? is a short silent film made by the Hal Roach Studios in 1927, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The film was made shortly before they were officially recognized as a double act, it is most notable for featuring the...

Double Whoopee

Double Whoopee is a 1929 Hal Roach silent short comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. It was shot during February 1929 and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 18 of that year. Laurel and Hardy play the roles of a footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel)...

Duck Soup

Duck Soup was a short silent film made by Hal Roach Studios in 1927. It was the first occasion Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appeared together on screen at Hal Roach Studios. It was considered a lost film for nearly fifty years, until a print was...

Early to Bed

Early to Bed is a 1928 short comedy silent film starring Laurel and Hardy. When the homeless pair learn that Hardy has inherited a fortune, they move into a mansion. Hardy becomes an irresponsible playboy and Laurel is his put-upon butler. The...

Flying Elephants

Flying Elephants is a two-reel silent film from 1928. It stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy—before they became the popular team of Laurel and Hardy—as cavemen. The title refers to three animated pachyderms provided by Walter Lantz that fly past in...

Fra Diavolo

Fra Diavolo or The Devil's Brother or Bogus Bandits is a 1933 film starring Laurel and Hardy. It is based on Daniel Auber's opera Fra Diavolo on the famous Italian brigand leader Fra Diavolo. In the early 18th century the bandit Fra Diavolo returns...

From Soup to Nuts

From Soup to Nuts is a 1928 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy as butlers hired for a high society dinner party. When Stan is asked to serve the salad undressed he serves it in his underwear. The film was remade as the first part of A Chump...

Habeas Corpus

Habeas Corpus is a 1928 short comedy silent film starring Laurel and Hardy as grave-robbers hired by a mad scientist. Although silent, it was released with a music and effects track long thought lost. The missing soundtrack turned up in the 1990s...

Jitterbugs

Jitterbugs is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film produced by Sol M. Wurtzel. The plot involves the team as a travelling two-man band selling "gas pills" in gas-short, wartime America. The film is notable for its dance sequences and the interaction...

Leave 'Em Laughing

Leave 'Em Laughing is a 1928 two-reel silent film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Produced by the Hal Roach Studios, it was shot in October, 1927 and released January 28, 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It marks the first appearance of Edgar...

Liberty

Liberty is a 1929 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy as escaped convicts who, while trying to change pants, wind up on a skyscraper in construction.

Love 'em and Weep

Love 'em and Weep (1927) is a comedy short silent film directed by Fred Guiol for Hal Roach Studios. It was shot in January 1927 and released June 12 of that year by Pathé Exchange. The cast included Mae Busch, Stan Laurel, Jimmy Finlayson (billed...

Men O' War

Men O' War is a 1929 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. The film opens with a montage of scenes in a park; canoers on a lake, a band playing in a bandstand, before showing us a washerwoman walking along one of the paths in the park with a...

Nothing But Trouble

Nothing But Trouble is a late Laurel and Hardy feature, and not regarded by fans and critics as one of their better efforts although it does have some funny moments. The plot involves the team as a chef and a butler wrecking a dinner party - the bit...

One Good Turn

One Good Turn is a 1931 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. Stan and Ollie are victims of the Great depression and are begging for food. A friendly old lady provides them with some sandwiches. Enjoying their meal they hear that the old lady...

Our Relations

Our Relations is a 1936 feature film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, produced by Laurel for Hal Roach Studios. In the film, Laurel and Hardy star as both their famous Stan and Ollie characters and as Stan and Ollie's twin brothers Bert and...

Pardon Us

Pardon Us is Laurel and Hardy's first feature length comedy film. It was produced by Hal Roach and Stan Laurel, directed by James Parrott, and originally distributed by MGM in 1931. It is prohibition, and beer barons Laurel and Hardy are sent to...

Perfect Day

Perfect Day is a 1929 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. The story involves the difficulties Laurel and Hardy, their wives, and their Uncle Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) have in trying to go out for a picnic on a Sunday. Script written around late...

Putting Pants on Philip

Putting Pants On Philip, is a landmark 1927 Hal Roach two reel silent film in that it was the first to bill Laurel and Hardy as a comedy duo. However, the recognised Stan and Ollie characters and costumes had yet to become a more or less permanent...

Sailors Beware

Sailors, Beware! (1927) is a Hal Roach two reel silent film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they were officially a team. Also appearing in the film are Anita Garvin, and Hollywood midget Harry Earles, who would once again appear with...

Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea is a 1940 American film directed by Gordon Douglas, distributed by United Artists, and Laurel and Hardy's last film produced by Hal Roach Studio. Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie develops 'hornophobia' and starts going crazy...

Scram

Scram! is a 1932 Laurel and Hardy film. Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in,...

Should Married Men Go Home?

Should Married Men Go Home? is a silent two-reel comedy produced by the Hal Roach Studios and starring Laurel and Hardy. It was filmed in March and May 1928, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 8 of that year. It was the first Roach...

Slipping Wives

Slipping Wives is a 1927 silent comedy short film starring Priscilla Dean, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Priscilla is married to an artist called Leon. However Leon isn't showing much interest in his wife so she hatches a plot to win back his...

Sons of the Desert

Sons of the Desert is a 1933 film starring Laurel and Hardy, and directed by William A. Seiter. It was first released in the United States on December 29, 1933 and is regarded as one of Laurel and Hardy's greatest films. In the UK the film was...

Sugar Daddies

Sugar Daddies is a 1927 short comedy silent film starring Jimmy Finlayson, and a pre-teamed Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

That's My Wife

That's My Wife is a 1929 short comedy silent film produced by the Hal Roach Studios and starring Laurel and Hardy. It was shot in December 1928 and released March 23, 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with a synchronized music and sound effects track in...

Battle of the Century

The Battle of the Century is a 1927 Hal Roach two-reeler starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who, although just teamed, had yet to take on their recognisable Stan and Ollie characters on a more or less permanent basis. A young Lou Costello can be...

The Big Noise

The Big Noise is a 1944 comedy film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It was produced by Sol M. Wurtzel and directed by Mal St.Clair. It is regarded by many film critics and Laurel and Hardy historians as being among the duo's worst films. In...

The Bohemian Girl

The Bohemian Girl is a 1936 feature film version of the opera The Bohemian Girl by Michael William Balfe. It was produced at the Hal Roach Studios, and stars Laurel and Hardy and Thelma Todd in her last role before her mysterious death. It is one of...

The Bullfighters

The Bullfighters (1945) is a late Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team working as private detectives in Mexico City. When Laurel is found to resemble a famous matador, he is forced to take his place in the bullring. Stan Laurel...

The Dancing Masters

The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.

The Finishing Touch

The Finishing Touch is a 1928 short comedy silent film produced by Hal Roach, directed by Clyde Bruckman and starring Laurel and Hardy. It was shot in November and December 1927 and released February 25, 1928 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film has...

The Music Box

The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film won the first Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (Comedy) in 1932....

The Second Hundred Years

The Second Hundred Years is a 1927 short comedy silent film starring Laurel and Hardy as convicts making an escape from prison. Their heads were shaved for their appearance in this film, and their hair had not yet grown back in their roles in Max...

Their Purple Moment

Their Purple Moment is a 1928 short comedy silent film starring Laurel and Hardy.

Them Thar Hills

Them Thar Hills (1934) is a short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. The story involves Stan and Ollie traveling to the mountains for Ollie to recover from gout. They park their caravan near a cabin of moonshiners; the moonshiners dump their...

They Go Boom

They Go Boom is a 1929 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. Laurel & Hardy try to sleep in a room-for-rent. Hardy, suffering from a cold, coughs frequently, while Laurel snores. Both of them have trouble falling asleep because of this. They...

Thicker than Water

Thicker than Water was the last short to star Laurel and Hardy. Directed by James W.Horne, produced by Hal Roach, and released in 1935 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the short also features James Finlayson and Daphne Pollard in supporting roles. Stan and...

Tit for Tat

Tit for Tat is a 1935 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. It was the only direct sequel they made, following the story of the previous year's Them Thar Hills. Tit for Tat was also nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film ...