Oliver Hardy
Also Known As: Oliver Norvell Hardy, Oliver N. Hardy, O.N. Hardy, Babe Hardy, 'Babe' Hardy, Cupid Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Laurel & Hardy, Hardy, Norvell Hardy, Ollie, Оливер Харди
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy, January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1927 to 1951. He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles. He was credited with his first film, Outwitting Dad, in 1914. In some of his early works, he was billed as "Babe Hardy". Oliver Hardy died from cerebral thrombosis on August 7, 1957, at age 65. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 1500 Vine Street, Hollywood, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Harlem, Georgia, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 18, 1892
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 07, 1957
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Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 1
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Laurel & Hardy – Best Comedy Team Vol. 2
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The Flying Deuces
Overview: Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Overview: An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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Way Out West
Overview: Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Nothing But Trouble
Overview: Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal for visiting royalty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-06
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Babes in Toyland
Overview: Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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A Chump at Oxford
Overview: The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-25
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The Hollywood Clowns
Overview: Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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Busy Bodies
Overview: In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-07
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Sons of the Desert
Overview: Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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The Fighting Kentuckian
Overview: John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-15
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Block-Heads
Overview: It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-19
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Overview: Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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Air Raid Wardens
Overview: Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-04
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Bonnie Scotland
Overview: Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Overview: The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-16
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Any Old Port!
Overview: Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-05
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The Music Box
Overview: The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-16
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The Honorable Mr. Buggs
Overview: Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a wanted thief who has stolen a valuable brooch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-24
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Along Came Auntie
Overview: A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-25
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Our Relations
Overview: Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-15
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Great Guns
Overview: Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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Saps at Sea
Overview: Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-29
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Dick & Doof - Die Twentieth Century Fox Studio Gesamtedition
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-04-03
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The Perfect Lady
Overview: Jimmy Jump appears as a female impersonator in an amateur show who is forced to wear his costume home. He meets with varied experiences, and is such an attractive looking "woman" that the men all want to make dates with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-24
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The Midnight Patrol
Overview: Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-03
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The Wizard of Oz
Overview: A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-12
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Men O' War
Overview: Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a boat to cruise on a lake. They soon tangle with other boaters and everyone ends up in the water.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-29
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Night Owls
Overview: Policeman Edgar Kennedy is told by his chief he better stop a string of burglaries that have been happening on his watch or else he will get the sack. He persuades vagrants Stan and Ollie to rob the chief's house so he can regain his reputation by catching them. The policeman promises to later get the boys off. Things do not go as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-04
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Oliver the Eighth
Overview: Barbershop owners Stan and Ollie answer an ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow looking for a husband. Ollie only mails in his response and is invited to the widow's mansion. Stan discovers his unmailed letter and insists on tagging along. At the mansion, the widow's creepy butler informs them that the woman is crazy. She was once jilted by an Oliver and now her hobby is marrying Olivers and then slitting their throats. Now the boys must figure out how to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-13
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On the Wrong Trek
Overview: Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in with two vagabond hitchhikers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-18
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One Good Turn
Overview: Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord tell her he's going to throw her out because she can't pay her mortgage. They don't realize that the old lady is really rehearsing for a play. Stan and Ollie decide to help the old lady by selling their car. During the auction a drunk puts a wallet in Stan's pocket. Ollie accuses Stan of robbing the old lady, but when the truth is revealed Stan takes revenge on Ollie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-31
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Our Wife
Overview: Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage. The couple plan to elope, and run away to a Justice of the Peace. After typical Laurel and Hardy blundering, they manage to sneak the girl away from her father's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-16
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Sugar Daddies
Overview: After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-10
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The Golden Age of Comedy
Overview: A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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Going Bye-Bye!
Overview: In a packed courtroom, Butch Long vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has helped to send him to prison. Frightened, the boys plan to leave town and advertise for someone to share expenses with them. The woman who answers the ad is actually Butch's girlfriend. Meanwhile Butch escapes and hides in a trunk in his girlfriend's apartment where he gets locked inside. Not realizing who it is, Stan and Ollie finally manage to get the trunk open and then Butch exacts his revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-23
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Playmates
Overview: A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Below Zero
Overview: Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-26
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Be Big!
Overview: Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from a lodge buddy telling him that a stag party is taking place that night in their honor. Ollie pretends to be sick and sends the wives on ahead, promising that he and Stan will meet them in the morning. The pair dress in their lodge gear, but their wives return having missed their train. With no obvious escape route, Stan and Ollie take to a bed in fear and in response to Stan's plea of "What'll I do?", Ollie replies "Be big!".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Big Business
Overview: Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-20
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The Chimp
Overview: Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-21
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County Hospital
Overview: Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-25
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Dirty Work
Overview: Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps working at the home of mad scientist Professor Noodle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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Their Purple Moment
Overview: The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys run up a huge tab treating a couple of girls to dinner at a snazzy nightclub and much trouble ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-19
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Liberty
Overview: While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-26
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On the Loose
Overview: Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Perfect Day
Overview: Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-10
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Should Married Men Go Home?
Overview: Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-08
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Beau Hunks
Overview: Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-02
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Come Clean
Overview: The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and manage to prevent a shrewish woman from committing suicide on the way back home. The woman is ungrateful and makes threats against the them unless they look after her. They spend a chaotic evening trying to keep her hidden from their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-02
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Double Whoopee
Overview: Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell Jean Harlow (in a brief appearance) and repeatedly escort a stuffy nobleman into an empty elevator shaft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-18
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The Finishing Touch
Overview: Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the house and it collapses. Naturally, the owner wants his money back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-25
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The Fixer Uppers
Overview: Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marriage by making her husband jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-09
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Fluttering Hearts
Overview: Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. In the mean time, her father tries to retrieve a compromising letter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-19
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Flying Elephants
Overview: Cavemen Stan and Ollie vie for the affections of a stone-age beauty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-12
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Overview: The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-08
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Leave 'Em Laughing
Overview: Stan complains of a toothache and he and Ollie visit the dentist. Ollie gets his teeth pulled by mistake. Under the influence of laughing gas, they leave and cause much commotion on the road annoying a traffic cop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-28
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The Live Ghost
Overview: Fish market workers Stan and Ollie are persuaded by a sea captain to shanghai a crew for him at the local bar for a dollar a head. Successful at first, the boys end up getting themselves shanghaied, and the crew vow revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-08
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Me and My Pal
Overview: On the morning of his wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter, Ollie receives a jigsaw puzzle from Stan as a wedding gift. The boys soon become absorbed in the puzzle. A taxi driver, butler, policeman and messenger boy join in as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-22
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The World of Laurel and Hardy
Overview: The funniest moments from Laurel and Hardy's most hilarious films
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Brats
Overview: Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-22
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Scram!
Overview: 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, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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Laughing Gravy
Overview: Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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The Dancing Masters
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-19
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Overview: A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-26
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Angora Love
Overview: Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-14
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Another Fine Mess
Overview: Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-29
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Laurel & Hardy - Best of
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-03-17
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Laurel & Hardy - Best of II
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-16
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Bacon Grabbers
Overview: Laurel and Hardy are debt collectors trying to repossess a console radio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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The Battle of the Century
Overview: Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-31
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Berth Marks
Overview: Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-01
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Blotto
Overview: Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-08
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Call of the Cuckoo
Overview: Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-15
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Chickens Come Home
Overview: Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-21
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Do Detectives Think?
Overview: An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-20
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Duck Soup
Overview: Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-13
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Early to Bed
Overview: Oliver inherits a fortune and hires Stan as his butler and proceeds to torment him. Stan finally rebels and goes on a rampage, destroying Oliver's fancy furnishings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-06
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The Hoose-Gow
Overview: Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. The usual mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-16
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Putting Pants on Philip
Overview: Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-03
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Sailors, Beware!
Overview: A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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The Second 100 Years
Overview: Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-08
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Slipping Wives
Overview: Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-03
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That's My Wife
Overview: Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pressed into duty (and into drag) to impersonate Oliver's loving spouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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Their First Mistake
Overview: Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs Hardy says that she is through if Ollie goes out with Stan again. Stan suggests that Ollie adopts a baby, which he does. Unfortunately, his wife has left their apartment on returning, and a process server delivers a paper informing Ollie that she is suing him for divorce, naming Stan as correspondent. The boys are now left to look after the infant on their own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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Them Thar Hills
Overview: Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-21
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They Go Boom!
Overview: Stan and Ollie try to sleep in a room-for-rent. Ollie, suffering from a cold, coughs frequently, while Stan snores. Both of them have trouble falling asleep because of this. They try to solve their problems, but this results in total chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-21
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Thicker Than Water
Overview: Oliver's in trouble with his wife after missing a payment on their furniture, having given the money to Stanley, who used it instead to pay Mrs. Hardy for his room and board. At Stan's suggestion Ollie then withdraws the couple's savings from the bank to pay for the furniture and inadvertently pays virtually the whole amount at an auction for a grandfather clock which is soon crushed under a passing truck. Mrs Hardy then unintentionally causes serious injuries to Ollie requiring him to be rushed to hospital for a blood transfusion. The doctor conscripts Stan to be the unwilling blood donor. Problems occur with the transfusion and when Stan and Ollie leave the hospital they appear to have morphed into each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-16
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Thundering Fleas
Overview: The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-18
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Tit for Tat
Overview: Stan and Ollie have set up their own electrical appliance store but, unfortunately for them, the grocery right next door is run by the man and wife whom they encountered in "Them Thar Hills" (1935). Stan and Ollie go and visit to offer the hand of friendship, but the grocer again becomes convinced that Ollie and his wife are fooling around.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-05
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Towed in a Hole
Overview: Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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Twice Two
Overview: A year prior to the first scene, Stan married Ollie's sister, and Ollie married Stan's sister in a double wedding. They all live together and Stan and Ollie work in the same office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-25
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Two Tars
Overview: Two sailors on shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a huge traffic jam with dozens of ill-tempered motorists. A minor collision sets off an escalating series of retaliations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-03
Popularity:
Unaccustomed as We Are
Overview: Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-04
Popularity:
We Faw Down
Overview: Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-29
Popularity:
Why Girls Love Sailors
Overview: Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's wife fires off a parting shot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-17
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With Love and Hisses
Overview: Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-28
Popularity:
Wrong Again
Overview: Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being the painting, not the horse. They take the horse to the owner's house to claim the reward. The owner instructs them to put "Blue Boy" on the piano and Ollie explains, "these millionaires are peculiar."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-23
Popularity:
You're Darn Tootin'
Overview: Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-21
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Habeas Corpus
Overview: Loony scientist hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
Popularity:
Helpmates
Overview: Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-23
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Hog Wild
Overview: First, Ollie can't find his hat. Then he and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-31
Popularity:
Love 'Em and Weep
Overview: Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a friend to keep her away from his home and wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-12
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Hollywood Handicap
Overview: A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-28
Popularity:
The Gentle Cyclone
Overview: The story is motivated by a long-standing feud, which comes to a head when each of the warring families tries to adopt an orphan girl who is about to receive a huge inheritance.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-27
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Utopia
Overview: Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-17
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The Bohemian Girl
Overview: Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-14
Popularity:
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Overview: From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-28
Popularity:
The Lucky Dog
Overview: In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-01
Popularity:
Swiss Miss
Overview: Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
Popularity:
Jitterbugs
Overview: The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-05
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From Soup to Nuts
Overview: Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-24
Popularity:
The Stolen Jools
Overview: Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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The Big Noise
Overview: During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-22
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Bromo and Juliet
Overview: A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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The Devil's Brother
Overview: Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-05
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The Bullfighters
Overview: Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-01
Popularity:
Stick Around
Overview: A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the asylum interrupt and complicate the work, and, to the dismay of the lazy boss, a nurse is attracted to the helper. Amidst all the paste, ladders, brushes, and the images of circus and jungle animals on the wallpaper, is there any way this job gets done to the satisfaction of the sanitarium's director?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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Crazy to Act
Overview: Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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The Sawmill
Overview: A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Hop to It!
Overview: Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-01
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Golf
Overview: Comedy on the golf links.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-03
Popularity:
Making Auntie Welcome
Overview: Jack pretends to be crazy to get his aunt to cut her visit short. The maid sees him practicing his 'insanity' and thinks he's trying to kill his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1914-08-22
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The Guilty Ones
Overview: The Guilty Ones is a 1916 Oliver Hardy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1916-12-16
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The Tree in a Test Tube
Overview: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-19
Popularity:
Kid Speed
Overview: Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-16
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Wandering Papas
Overview: A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into contact with a mad hermit, who hates anybody seeing his daughter, before returning to cook dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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Yes, Yes, Nanette
Overview: Nanette sends a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with the family, Nanette's former lover returns, and Hillory must confront him
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-19
Popularity:
When Comedy Was King
Overview: A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
Genres: Drama Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-29
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Riding High
Overview: A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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Wild Poses
Overview: Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-28
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Pick a Star
Overview: A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Zenobia
Overview: A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-21
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The Haunted Hat
Overview: A cat gets caught under a hat and walks around, frightening everyone in town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1915-08-31
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Avenging Bill
Overview: Lucy works for the Grouch family, and is used to being overworked and abused. But when Mr. Grouch punches her sweetheart, Bill, she has had enough. She grabs a knife and chases Mr. Grouch until he apologizes to Bill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-31
Popularity:
4 Clowns
Overview: Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown battling a gum machine, and Hardy is a debaucherous Romeo whose amorous plans are thwarted by Rex, the Wonder Horse. Charley Chase is hampered by hiccups and a female professor, and he fleeces a drunken Oliver Hardy with a mannequin in a nightclub. The third part finds bachelor Buster Keaton desperately trying to get married by 7:00 PM in order to collect a $7-million-dollar inheritance. Keaton is pursued by money-hungry prospects in one of the best chase scenes ever filmed. Narration is provided by Jay Jackson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-01
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Night of Goblins
Overview: Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-10-16
Popularity:
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Overview: Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold diggers. After managing to clear his name he becomes, with Oliver Hardy, a big comedy star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Thieves
Overview: Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-01-07
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They All Fall
Overview: They All Fall is a 1925 American slapstick comedy film featuring Bobby Ray & Oliver Hardy. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-08-01
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The Perfect Clown
Overview: A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-14
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Long Fliv the King
Overview: This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man--but the man is pardoned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-13
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The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Overview: Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along with clips from many of the shorts that made the duo stars, it includes clips from a 1918 comedy starring Laurel on his own as well as scenes from three shorts Hardy made in 1917 and '18 with his original comedy partner, Billy West. To put the duo's work in context, the film briefly features other comedians who worked with producer Hal Roach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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The Nickel-Hopper
Overview: Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-04
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Performers arrive in Hampshire
Overview: Movie stars are interviewed on a boat in 1947 in Hampshire, United Kingdom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-12
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The Servant Girl's Legacy
Overview: A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another telegram telling her the inheritances is only $25. All her new 'friends' desert her, except her poor boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-27
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Something in Her Eye
Overview: A woman passes a construction site and gets dirt in her eye, which causes her to wink involuntarily. Soon she has a trail of suitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-09
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The Battle Royal
Overview: Plump and Runt are on opposite sides of a mountain feud. Then government revenue agents arrive and both families join together to run off the common enemy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-12
Popularity:
One Too Many
Overview: When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-16
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The Candy Kid
Overview: A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-14
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The Hobo
Overview: Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-01
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The Hero
Overview: The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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Bright and Early
Overview: Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-14
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The Rogue
Overview: 'The Rogue' casts West as the slavey in a boarding-house (not a very Chaplinesque role) overseen by a landlady who seems to be a cross between Alice Davenport and Marie Dressler, with a dash of Hattie Jacques. He crosses paths with a counterfeit count (White) and a stolen violin worth $20,000.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-14
Popularity:
Dull Care
Overview: Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-10-05
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The Lottery Man
Overview: A young man proposes a lottery with himself as the prize in marriage. However he finds himself very much in love with a woman other than the winner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-25
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The Villain
Overview: In The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He's still imitating Chaplin, but this time he's playing the wicked, top-hatted Charlie found in some of his earliest Keystone appearances (e.g. Mabel at the Wheel), the ones where Charlie himself seemed to be imitating the studio's recently departed Ford Sterling. Throughout this short there is much spoofing of old-time melodramas, a frequent motif of Sterling's comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-14
Popularity:
His Day Out
Overview: In this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hardy (doing his best Eric Campell). A barber by trade, our tramp serves his boorish clientele with similarly bad manners before the whole crowd attends a swanky Barbers' Ball.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-14
Popularity:
Be Your Age
Overview: Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, her attorney, sees a way to solve both their problems, and keep control of her $2 million.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-13
Popularity:
Now I'll Tell One
Overview: This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up again in the '90s. So half of the movie can be seen. It's a fast paced slapstick comedy with also a good comical story about a man (Charley Chase) who is being prosecuted for shooting his wife (Edna Marion).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-04
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The Bakery
Overview: Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-19
Popularity:
The Bell Hop
Overview: A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-17
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The Fall Guy
Overview: Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.
Genres: Western Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-15
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The Counter Jumper
Overview: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-12-08
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Should Men Walk Home?
Overview: Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually grinning Creighton Hale. Mabel seems a little livelier in this film than in some of her other late works. In the very first scene we find her hitch-hiking, and she's forced to make a mad dash for cover when Hale's car nearly hits her. Soon they team up and crash a swanky party in a mansion to steal a jewel from the host's safe.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-29
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A Pair of Kings
Overview: A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-10
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Lightning Love
Overview: The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-22
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The Midnight Cabaret
Overview: The Midnight Cabaret is a 1923 American film directed by Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-09
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No Wedding Bells
Overview: Larry arrives at his girlfriend's house to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Her father, who is in the middle of winning a chess game for the first time in 20 years, immediately throws Larry out the window. Meanwhile, the girl is kidnapped by a Chinese servant, who is secretly the henchman of a gangster who has developed a sleeping potion he wants to try out on an unsuspecting woman. Larry finds out, and he sets out to rescue his girlfriend and try not to get thrown out of a window by her father again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-01-09
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Horseshoes
Overview: A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato--winds up in the ring with him but, with the aid of some strategically placed horseshoes, manages to knock the boxer out. When he comes to and finds out what happened, the outraged boxer sets out after Larry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-09
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The Gown Shop
Overview: Here we have 'The Gown Shop', very much in Semon's usual style but with fewer laughs than usual. Semon plays his default character, a grotesque hard-working incompetent. (I'm going to be using the word 'grotesque' a lot in this particular review.) This time round, he blunders into a boutique. After causing some damage he can't pay for, Larry is put to work as a general dogsbody. Mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-13
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No Man's Law
Overview: A wild stallion (Rex the Wonder Horse) becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter as two thugs plot to steal their claim.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-01
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Her Boy Friend
Overview: Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-27
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Hollywood Party
Overview: Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-24
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Girl 27
Overview: The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-27
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Say It with Babies
Overview: Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-16
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A Bankrupt Honeymoon
Overview: A Bankrupt Honeymoon is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring Harold Goodwin and featuring Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-02-06
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Baby Brother
Overview: Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-26
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Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
Overview: New 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate, Laurel and Hardy's classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Two features and 17 shorts, including the legendary pie-fight silent film "The Battle of the Century," making it's video debut and nearly complete for the first time in over 90 years!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-30
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Why Girls Say No
Overview: A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-21
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Playing at Politics
Overview: Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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Their Night Out - Screen Test
Overview: Ollie and Patsy slapstick.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Roaring Lions at Home
Overview: A little girl visits the circus and loses her dog there, and in error brings home a lion cub. The mother lioness trails her missing cub to the girl's home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-23
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He's In Again
Overview: A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he will have to work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Overview: Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Hungry Hearts
Overview: Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump marries her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-16
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Little Wildcat
Overview: Robert Ware takes it upon himself to tame wild girl, Mag, to prove to his doubting friend Arnold, he can turn her into a graceful young lady. Later, when Arnold is in the war, he meets a pretty nurse who greatly impresses him. Back home he recalls the pleasant encounter to Robert, telling him of the gentle beauty he never forgot. Mag, now Margaret, overhears the story and reveals to Arnold, she was the nurse. The surprised Arnold now has to admit that Robert was right about gentling the little wild cat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-12
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The Rogue Song
Overview: In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-17
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Cupid's Rival
Overview: A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy artist living across the hall, and takes unorthodox measures to find out what's going on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-01
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Isn't Life Terrible?
Overview: Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-05
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Hop to It, Bellhop
Overview: Two hotel bell hops get into all kinds of shenanigans between dames, baths and bags of loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-05
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An Expensive Visit
Overview: At college, Jack is spending his dad's money and not studying. When dad comes for a visit, Jack gets one of his friends to dress as a woman and flirt with his father. Another friend pretends to be the jealous husband, forcing dad to buy his way out of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-22
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Overview: Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-03
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Chaplin's Goliath
Overview: A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Night Life
Overview: Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-04-19
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The Skulls
Overview: This Spanish language film was produced simultaneously with the filming of the two English language Laurel and Hardy shorts Be Big! and Laughing Gravy. The two shorts were edited together into one continuous film. Laurel and Hardy read their lines from cue cards on which Spanish was written phonetically. At the time of early talkies, dubbing was not yet perfected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1931-04-18
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The Chiselers
Overview: Having been kicked out by their wives on a wintry night they attempt to smuggle their little dog into an apartment house where dogs are not allowed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Shivering and Shaking
Overview: Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1930-04-28
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A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
Overview: Documentary about Laurel & Hardy
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-25
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Laurel & Hardy - Best of III
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Fiddlin' Around
Overview: FIDDLIN AROUND' (1925) (Starring Babe Hardy).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-14
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The Joke's on You
Overview: Billy West comedy produced by Cumberland and distributed by Arrow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-14
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Squeaks and Squawks
Overview: A repairman falls in love with a blacksmith's daughter, who's having trouble with their greedy landlord, and helps them get one over on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-28
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Two-Time Mama
Overview: The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couples, the Browns (Glenn Tryon & Vivien Oakland) and the Dazzles (Tyler Brooke & Anita Garvin). The two couples have apartments across the hall from one another, and all four plan to attend a costume ball together. But after each husband expresses unhappiness with his wife's costume the women angrily refuse to go to the party. The two husbands decide to go "stag" and pick up dates, but when Mrs. Brown changes her mind about attending, and Mr. Dazzle and Mr. Brown switch costumes, mix-ups result.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-29
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The King of the Kitchen
Overview: A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-30
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They Looked Alike
Overview: Two tramps look so much alike that they can outfox the police time after time. When one of them is locked in a shack, the police manage to catch the other one and expose the trick.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-05
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The Chief Cook
Overview: The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and the bellboy. It is obvious from their reactions, particularly the cook (Leo White) that whatever was said did not go down too well. His animated arms knock down the man standing behind him repeatedly until all three servants simultaneously quit. They storm off into the adjoining kitchen where a slavery maid (Blanche White) is on the floor scrubbing the floor. The men all trip over her, moan briefly and then leave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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The Decorator
Overview: Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy comedy produced by Vitagraph features the screen debut of Kathleen Myers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-03
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His Jonah Day
Overview: Jimmy Aubrey comedy produced by Vitagraph.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-11-26
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The Barnyard
Overview: Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their hands on the property, by force if necessary. Lay Zee, who knows that oil has been found on nearby farms, convinces the farmer not to sell, and the swindlers enlist the help of another farmhand, who is jealous of Lay Zee's relationship with the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-11
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Babe's School Days
Overview: Ikie is always abused by the other schoolboys. Finally he and his father get even.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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The Rent Collector
Overview: The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-22
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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Overview: Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-05
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The Head Waiter
Overview: The headwaiter does tricks with spaghetti that the greatest spaghetti handlers in the world never heard of. The sight makes your mouth water. Besides food, the scenes are garnished with a couple of trayfuls of beautiful girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
Overview: An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-21
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Bungs and Bunglers
Overview: Vitagraph comedy with Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-11-24
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It May Be You
Overview: Jack goes from business to business, trying to sell ad space in his newspaper. At each stop he catches the boss in a compromising position with a secretary. He writes an editorial about the practice, hinting that he could expose prominent businessmen. Suddenly everyone wants to buy ads in his paper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-07
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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Overview: The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-05
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Pardon Us
Overview: It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-15
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Married to Order
Overview: Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope but the near-sighted father mistakes her for the twin brother and all chaos follows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-29
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Love and Duty
Overview: Ollie is a love-struck private who is drilled by his unsympathetic lieutenant at reveille. The colonel of the regiment wants his daughter to marry the lieutenant but she has her heart set on the chubby-faced Hardy, who himself is in love with another woman. He is thrown into a cell for disobeying orders, where he later escapes with the assistance of his sweetheart, and a casual touch of assault when he bumps the guard with his large stomach. The final chase scene ends with everyone getting what they want.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-21
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The Pest
Overview: The Pest (aka The Freeloader) is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy and starring Billy West in one of his "Charlie Chaplin" rip-off roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-15
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The Stranger
Overview: After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little burro with his pick, shovel and pack strapped up behind him. Finally he comes in sight of Red Dog Gulch and, hungry and thirsty, he pushes on toward the city. Susie is the daughter of the town drunkard. She starts out on her horse for a little ride, and a little way from town is attacked by Pedro and Little Casino, two Mexicans, who try to steal her horse. Billy happens along, runs the Mexicans off and takes Susie back to town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Love 'em and Feed 'em
Overview: A pair of gold prospectors (Max Davidson, Oliver Hardy) try to make their way in the big city. *Only reconstructed fragments exists.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-12
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Oliver Hardy : 10 courts métrages, 1916-1927
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Overview: Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-14
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Radiomanía
Overview: Spanish language version of Hog Wild
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-19
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Madame Mystery
Overview: A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-03-12
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Laughing Ladies
Overview: Lucien Littlefield is a dentist who believes in giving generous doses of laughing gas to the patients. On this occasion when a girl arrives at his office with an aching molar, he administers even more than the usual quantity. Under the influence of the laughing gas, she leaves the office and trips blithely along through all kinds of dangerous traffic, makes love to a married man while his wife looks on and succeeds in getting herself into several difficulties. In the meantime the dentist pursues with a restorative.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Ups and Downs
Overview: Shifty Mike attempts to force his attentions on Jabbs' daughter, but is thwarted. Vowing revenge, Mike hires Pokes to throw a bomb through Jabbs' window. Instead, Pokes blows himself up.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date:
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The Serenade
Overview: Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-02
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That's Entertainment! III
Overview: Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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Hey, Taxi!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-04-01
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Hats Off
Overview: Stan and Ollie are salesmen attempting to sell a washing machine; they fail constantly after several near misses. One would-be sale has them carrying the machine up a large flight of steps, only to find out that a young lady wants them to post a letter for her. The boys later get into an argument knocking off each other's hats, which eventually involves scores of others. A police van eventually carts all those involved away except Stan and Ollie, who afterwards try to find their own headgear amongst the hundreds of others lying on the street.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-11-05
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That's That!
Overview: The rarest of Laurel and Hardy films this side of The Rogue Song (1930), That's That is a gag reel made up of alternate takes and bloopers said to have been compiled by film editor Bert Jordan as a present for Stan Laurel's birthday in 1937.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Crazy Like a Fox
Overview: Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-26
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Little Nell
Overview: Billy West tries to court/swindle Little Nell (big Oliver Hardy in drags). but her father is in the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-09
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Fiddlin' Around
Overview: A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-14
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Overview: Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-06
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Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
Overview: Experience Stan and Ollie in their funniest scenes: whether they build a house as construction workers or try to impress two young ladies as sailors. Watch as Stan fights a superior opponent in the boxing ring and as Ollie is taking an involuntary bath and see where a steadfast friendship between two men can get you...
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-22
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Overview: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
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The Scholar
Overview: Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-15
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Haunted at Midnight
Overview: Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case". When Stan's rich uncle Ebeneezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebeneezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-05-21
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The Backyard
Overview: Jimmy Aubrey lets the kids in the alley shoot arrows at him. After he grows tired of this, he treats them like satchels to get them out of his way. A policeman shows up and he is terrified; later, disguised as a policeman, he encounters Oliver Hardy, who is in brutal mode here.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
Overview: The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-12-28
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Mother's Baby Boy
Overview: Percival is a spoiled mama's boy. When two toughs make time with his girlfriend he sends a telegram to his mother for help.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1914-11-24
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Distilled Love
Overview: Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-01
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Stanlio & Ollio Le migliori comiche
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Stanlio & Ollio - Comiche indimenticabili
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date:
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Salute to Stan Laurel
Overview: A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-23
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Should Sailors Marry?
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Overview: Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-03
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The Show
Overview: A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-19
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Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
Overview: Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. It features interviews with Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Babe London, Marcel Marceau, Lucille Hardy (Ollie's wife), Bob Monkhouse, Hal Roach, Marvin T Hatley, Jack McCabe and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
Overview: A compilation of primarly Laurel and Hardy shorts---From Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting the Pants on Philip, The Finishing Touch, Sugar Daddies and short clips from others---plus Max Davidson's Call of the Cuckoo and Dumb Daddies, with some cross-over Charley Chase footage, which, along with Robert Youngson's previous "The Golden Age of Comedy", "When Comedy Was King", "Days of Thrills and Laughter", led to a renewed interest in and a revival of television showings of Laurel and Hardy shorts. The cast was billed in order of their appearance: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Vivien Oakland (with a Vivian typo), Glen Tyron, Edna Murphy, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sanford, Jimmy Finlayson, Charlie Chase, Viola Richard, Max Davidson, Del Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Anders Randolf (as Anders Randolph), Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Lillian Elliott and "Spec" O'Donnell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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Dick & Doof - Best of
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Laurel and Hardy in Tynemouth
Overview: Actors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy visit Tynemouth in North East England.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-31
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Laurel and Hardy in Edinburgh
Overview: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy visit Scotland in the Summer of 1932
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-31
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30 Years of Fun
Overview: Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-10
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Trouble Brewing
Overview: This film, with Larry as a dry agent, pokes fun at the situations which the Prohibition Act produced throughout the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1924-03-12
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The Stage Hand
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-20
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A Lucky Strike
Overview: Bill is a rich miner but wants a wife. He advertises in an Eastern paper and receives a response from Nellie and Eleanor, but doesn't know it was sent as a joke. When he travels East to meet them, they have the cook pose as the writer of the response.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-18
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Dance of the Cookoos
Overview: Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works of Laurel & Hardy, into an original framework action
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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MGM 1935 Promo Reel
Overview: Promo for MGM's upcoming 1935-36 releases hosted by Laurel & Hardy and Jimmy Finlayson. Brief clips are shown from Rose Marie, Anna Karenina, Broadway Melody, China Seas, The Great Ziegfield and others. Don't miss a few seconds from the 1935 version (now lost) of Tarzan Escapes showing Jane with a great ape; there were no great apes in the 1936 release.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-09
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The Lilac Splash
Overview: A 1915 silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-01
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The Candy Trail
Overview: A 1916 silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-12
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Hello Trouble
Overview: A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-25
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Rivals
Overview: A 1925 silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-15
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The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy
Overview: A compilation of clips from various Laurel and Hardy films
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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The Girl in the Limousine
Overview: Tony and Freddie, who have been rivals all their lives, vie for the hand in marriage of their childhood sweetheart. Big Freddie has the upper hand when Tony gets himself kidnapped by a ring of muggers whose M.O. is to have one of their members dress up as a woman to lure men into the back seat of their limousine, where they are beaten up and robbed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-20
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Galloping Ghosts
Overview: A millionaire acquires a large diamond, said to be cursed. Despite the best efforts of his dutiful but fearful black valet (Oliver Hardy), it is stolen and kidnapped for ransom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-11
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Back Stage
Overview: Props, the stage man, and his assistant at the Orpheum Theater, Plunkville divide their time equally between drinking and attention to duty. Trouble starts when the new acts arrive. The Wiggle sisters, a Hawaiian act, demand the star dressing room but Props turns them down, but relents when Babe, the strong man, and his beautiful wife, Ethel Burton because he is smitten. Once the show begins Props is forever getting in the way of the performers and his bibulous assistant has an unfortunate propensity for dropping the curtain at the wrong moments. Things only get crazier from there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Stan and Olly
Overview: Documentary short about Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy which covers a visit in Scotland of the two comedic geniuses.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-04
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Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons
Overview: A compilation of some of Laurel and Hardy's best gags, including scenes from "Angora Love" (1929)," "You're Darn Tootin'" (1928), "Liberty" (1929), "The Battle Of The Century" (1927), with updated scores and sound effects.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Hooray for Hollywood
Overview: A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreels of the era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Hinter Schloss und Riegel
Overview: Only known footage of the German language version of Pardon Us (1931) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-23
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