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1967
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Five of Laurel and Hardy's best features from the silent film era are compiled in this collection by Robert Youngson....
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1965
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Two real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of...
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1951
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1950
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Down Memory Lane is a pastiche film comprised of old comedy footage from the Mack Sennett studios. The vintage clips are tied...
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1949
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Released in Republic Pictures' low-budget Trucolor and filmed at the majestic location of the title, Grand Canyon Trail stars...
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1948
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The third of four films bearing the title of The Perils of Pauline, this musical biopic purports to tell the life story of...
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1947
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Often mistakenly identified as a sequel to My Friend Flicka, Thunder in the Valley actually has more in common with the...
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Court Judge
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1947
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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1946
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1946
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Yanks Ahoy was the last of a series of Hal Roach "streamliners" teaming William Tracy as Sgt. Doubleday, he of the...
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1943
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Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of...
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1942
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One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in...
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1941
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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Dr. J.H. Finlayson
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1940
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Baldy Vandevere
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1940
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Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a...
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1939
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In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert....
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1939
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The fourth cinematic version of the novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung, this romantic caper is a virtual...
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1939
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In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers...
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1939
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1938
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1938
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Twenty years after the Armistice, doughboy Stan Laurel continues guarding a trench in France--simply because no one told him...
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1938
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Allegedly based on two factual works, Bouck White's The Book of Daniel Drew and Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, RKO's...
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1937
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Prospectors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy head to the western town of Brushwood Gulch, two men on a top-secret mission. The...
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Mickey Finn
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1937
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Film collectors take note: Hal Roach's Pick a Star is not a Laurel and Hardy picture, though the popular comic duo does make...
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1937
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1937
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Wise Girl is a medium-level screwball comedy with faintly serious undertones. Miriam Hopkins plays an heiress whose millions...
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1937
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1937
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1936
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Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks...
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1936
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1935
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1935
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Stanley MacLaurel (Stan Laurel), the American "black sheep" of the MacLaurel clan, stows away on a cattle boat to Scotland in...
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1935
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In this haunted comedy, a psycho scientist takes his ward's money and uses it to pay for his inventions. When a playwright...
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1934
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1934
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In this comedy mystery, the trouble begins when the town skinflint and his maid mysteriously disappear. Two rival cops begin...
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1934
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1934
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The corpse of a hated man is discovered in this mystery. The police inspector and investigating doctor found their work...
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1934
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It is Oliver Hardy's triumphant wedding day -- he is marrying the boss's daughter and thus becoming general manager for the...
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1933
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This time around, the Our Gang Kids are residents (or rather, inmates) of the Bleak Hill Boarding School, where the crabby...
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1933
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The exploits of 18th-century British highwayman Dick Turpin have been immortalized in scores of poems, ballads, novels, plays...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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Based on an 1830 opera entitled "Fra Diavolo" by Daniel F. Auber, the parts of two bit bandits were built up for Laurel and...
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Lord Rocberg
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1933
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have been working for a circus as two halves of an ersatz horse. When the circus closes, in lieu...
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1932
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Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama weepie, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil...
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1932
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Drafted into the army during World War I, those muddled misfits Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy make a shambles of Training Camp...
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1932
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are victims of the depression in this tworeeler. They do have an old car, a tent and some...
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1931
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Two-reel comedy favorites Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made their feature-film debut (excluding their guest appearances in...
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Schoolteacher
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1931
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Oliver Hardy finds that getting married is more difficult than he had planned in this two-reeler. It starts off with partner...
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1931
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Not only has Oliver Hardy established a successful business -- in fertilizer -- he has also decided to run for mayor. General...
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1931
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Set during World War I, The Dawn Patrol is a study of the pressures and pitfalls of authority. A British Royal Flying Corp...
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Field Sergeant
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1930
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Aerial photography highlights this early sound actioner, set during World War I. Lt. Robert Banks (Charles "Buddy" Rogers),...
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1930
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William Powell stars in this drama as William Foster, a gifted defense attorney with a gift for making cases go his way....
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1930
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The 1930 Laurel & Hardy 3-reeler Another Fine Mess is a remake of the team's 1927 effort Duck Soup--which, in turn, was based...
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1930
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Harold Lloyd's second talkie finds The Bespectacled One playing a shoe clerk in Honolulu. Harboring dreams of becoming an...
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1930
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1930
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Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) are selling Christmas trees door-to-door. Stan unintentionally insults their...
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Man
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1929
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This Laurel and Hardy short film has a thin plot but plenty of laughs. The two have escaped from prison, but the guards are...
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1929
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A very topical early talkie from low-budget companyColumbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer...
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Andy
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1929
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Taking Two Weeks Off for the first time in his life, plumber Dave Pickett (Jack Mulhall) spends his savings on a posh hotel...
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Pa Weaver
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1929
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1929
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In this early Laurel and Hardy sound short, Stan and Ollie are a pair of sailors on leave. They meet two girls at a park...
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1929
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Pa Martin
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1929
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Pa Slocum
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1928
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Unable to utilize the original George Gershwin score, this silent version of the Broadway musical Lady Be Good concentrates...
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1928
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A seriously injured boxer seemingly falls for his pretty nurse, who begins arranging their wedding. In this drama, the...
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Pat Malone
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1928
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Show Girl was based on a novel by J.P. McEvoy, which also inspired the long-running comic strip Dixie Dugan (Actress...
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1928
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A wild stallion becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter in this fine Western adventure produced by...
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1927
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Until the rediscovery of Duck Soup in the 1970s, this comic short was thought to be the first time that Stan Laurel and...
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1927
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In an ersatz Stone Age, the King orders all single males to marry or be banished -- or worse. A husky caveman known as the...
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1927
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy can't even tell whose hat is whose, so it's no surprise when they lose their jobs as...
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1927
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Confronted by a blackmailing former girlfriend (Mae Busch), recently wed businessman Titus Tillsbury (James Finlayson) is...
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1927
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Jewish comic Max Davidson stars in this Hal Roach farce that would most likely have been completely forgotten had not Stan...
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1927
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Laurel and Hardy are stripe-suited convicts in a cramped penitentiary cell. Seemingly model prisoners, they actually spend...
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1927
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Although they had appeared together in several films before this two-reeler was made, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were still...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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If not the funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Seeing the World is certainly one of the most famous. James Finlayson is...
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1927
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Easily one of the fastest and funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Thundering Fleas is set in motion with a sidewalk...
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1926
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1910s screen vamp Theda Bara ended her film career at Hal Roach studios. Originally she had been signed to do a number of...
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1926
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1925
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Living in a crowded tenement neighborhood, the Our Gang kids habitually run afoul of the nasty, ill-tempered cop on the...
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1925
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Ignored by her parents and browbeaten by her governess (May Beatty), poor little rich girl Mary Kornman finds comfort only in...
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1925
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Charley Chase plays a young married man with a suspicious wife (Katherine Grant) in this Hal Roach silent. The couple's car...
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1925
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In the mid-'20s Hal Roach gave James Finlayson his own starring series of one-reel comedies. They weren't very successful,...
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1925
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This two-reel Hal Roach comedy was not one of James Finlayson's best starring efforts, but it's notable because it's the...
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1925
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Gilroy
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1925
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This is one of the more well-known Stan Laurel solo comedies, but in truncated form -- much of the Army footage is usually...
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1924
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In the days before he teamed up with Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel often did his best film work in burlesques of popular feature...
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1924
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In spite of its obvious production values, this Stan Laurel comedy (made before he teamed up with Oliver Hardy) is not one of...
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1924
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Early on in his new contact with producer Hal Roach, Stan Laurel shot a comic short that had much of the same material as a...
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1923
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Although this Stan Laurel one-reeler is based on a very simple premise, it's quite funny. Adding to the mirth is the presence...
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1923
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1923
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This one-reel comedy was one of Stan Laurel's early films for the Hal Roach studios (it would be nearly four years before...
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1923
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This two-reel travesty of Rex Beach's oft-filmed story The Spoilers was not appreciated in its day -- several critics noted...
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1923
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1923
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Miles Sandwich
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1923
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This feature-length comedy-melodrama was not one of the best from Mack Sennett, or his talented director, F. Richard Jones....
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1922
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This hilarious slapstick comedy from Mack Sennett finds Sam Smith (Ben Turpin), the resident of a small town, accused of...
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J. Wellington Jones
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1921
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This delightful collection of silent comedies come complete with a music score. Titles include "Prince Pistachio,"...
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