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2005
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In the early years of cinema, nothing kept audiences in stitches quite like a good dose of physical comedy -- affectionately...
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1998
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A documentary video that looks at the many hilarious comedians in history. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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Interviews with Laurel and Hardy are combined with clips from some of their films. Also includes Be Big in which the duo go...
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1990
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1985
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A profile of Charlie Chaplin, most noted for his lovable "Little Tramp," from his childhood in England through his early...
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1981
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Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown...
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1970
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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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This compilation film is one of the few Robert Youngson productions to incorporate sound as well as silent excerpts. All the...
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1964
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The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of...
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1963
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1963
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This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film...
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1961
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Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy),...
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1959
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The first of documentary producer Robert Youngson's feature-length silent comedy compilations, The Golden Age of Comedy began...
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1958
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1954
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Himself
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1951
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1950
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Laurel & Hardy's last American film is a marked improvement over their previous 20th Century-Fox features, though still not...
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1945
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The second of Laurel & Hardy's two MGM starring films, Nothing But Trouble casts Stan and Ollie as, respectively, an...
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Himself
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1944
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play janitors for a detective agency who pose as super-sleuths when they're hired to protect...
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Stanley
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1944
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If Jitterbugs is, as has often been claimed, the best of Laurel & Hardy's 20th Century-Fox films (an otherwise...
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1943
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This lesser Laurel and Hardy vehicle casts Stan and Ollie as the proprietors of the "Arthur Hurry" dance studio. Despite a...
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Himself
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1943
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This short educational film, produced by the United States Department of Agriculture, offers a look at just how many products...
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1943
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Set in wartime (WW II), this film finds the fat guy, skinny guy comedy duo not much good at any attempted professions; they...
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1943
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Laurel & Hardy's second starring vehicle for 20th Century-Fox is arguably their weakest feature film, with the laughs few and...
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1942
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In their first 20th Century-Fox vehicle, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are cast respectively as the butler and chauffeur of...
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Stan
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1941
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Dumped by wife Ellen Drew, musician Melvyn Douglas goes into a creative slump. His gloom is lifted when he falls in love with...
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1941
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Stanley
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1940
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Himself
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1940
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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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Stan
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1939
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At the end of his long association with Hal Roach, comedian Stan Laurel produced three singing Westerns featuring operatic...
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Producer
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1939
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American mousetrap salesmen Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy journey to Switzerland, reasoning that where there's cheese, there's...
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Screen Story, Himself
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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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Himself
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1938
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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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Producer, Himself
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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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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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Producer, Stanley
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1936
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Charley Chase suffers through the vacation from hell in this hilarious two-reeler. He drives to California with his wife...
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1936
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1936
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Himself
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1936
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In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter...
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1936
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Stan and Ollie play proprietors of an electric store, anxious to make friends with neighboring grocer Charlie Hall....
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Screenwriter
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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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Stanley McLaurel
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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1934
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Although this Laurel and Hardy short is quite funny, it's often neglected. The boys, playing chimney sweeps, don't appear...
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1934
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This is perhaps Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's most atmospheric short. It begins at the waterfront where a captain (the...
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1934
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This is an especially violent -- but very funny -- Laurel and Hardy two-reeler. It opens in a courthouse where the vicious...
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1934
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Stanley Dum
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1934
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Mae Busch never looked more menacing than she did in this Laurel and Hardy three-reeler. She plays a wealthy widow who was...
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1934
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This is one of Laurel and Hardy's most entertaining sound shorts, and perhaps its beauty is in its utter comic simplicity --...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are policemen on night duty. As they sit in their car having a snack, they get a call from...
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1933
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Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read:...
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Stanley
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1933
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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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Screenwriter
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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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Stanlio
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1933
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It is time for Spanky McFarland and his family to have a group portrait taken, and prissy photographer Otto Phocus is the man...
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1933
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The whole point of this Laurel and Hardy two-reeler was to dress up the comic duo as women and have them play each other's...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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1932
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This is a collection of footage shot during a tour by the team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi...
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1932
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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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Himself
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1932
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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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1932
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In this classic two-reel comedy from the Hal Roach Studio, blonde Thelma Todd and plain-Jane ZaSu Pitts are depressed because...
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1932
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This is one of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's most popular two-reelers; it's particularly rich in gags, well-structured, and...
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1932
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In spite of a sudden end which makes this Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy two-reeler seem incomplete, there are quite a few...
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1932
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have just returned from a whaling trek. They check into a run-down hotel, the Mariner's Rest,...
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1932
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This most famous of Laurel and Hardy shorts won an Oscar for "Best Comedy Short Subject." Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play...
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Stanley
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1932
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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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Himself
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1931
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1931
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Most Laurel and Hardy aficionados consider this film among the comic duo's very best two-reelers, and it is especially rich...
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1931
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1931
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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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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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1931
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1931
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1931
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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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1931
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While this isn't one of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's best shorts, its premise is very similar to one of their finest...
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1931
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In this especially amusing Laurel and Hardy short, the boys are planning a night on the town. Standing in their way is Mrs....
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1930
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Metropolitan opera star Lawrence Tibbett headed the cast of The Rogue Song, an opulent Technicolor adaptation of the...
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1930
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While on an outing to go fishing, Oliver Hardy is trying to get some sleep. He's disturbed by a newspaper that blows in,...
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1930
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Stanley
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1930
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1930
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play both the fathers and their unruly children in this two-reel comedy. The really funny thing...
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1930
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Business is not good for street musicians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Perhaps it's because they're playing in front of a...
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1930
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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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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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1929
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A hotel is gearing up to welcome its prestigious new guest, a European Prince (Captain John Peters). But before he appears,...
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1929
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1929
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Stanley
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1929
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A goat escapes from a pet shop, and the owner reports the missing goat to the police. Laurel & Hardy have spent their last...
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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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This Laurel and Hardy two-reel silent involves the boys' attempts to repossess a radio from Collis P. Kennedy (Edgar Kennedy...
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1929
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Stanley
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1929
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This entertaining film is one of Laurel and Hardy's most bizarre. Stan and Ollie work as stable-hands for a racehorse named...
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1929
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Laurel and Hardy's second two-reel talkie is made up of a few very simple scenes -- Oliver Hardy goes to meet his partner...
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1929
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Although the title of Laurel and Hardy's very first sound film is a joke on the phrase, "Unaccustomed as we are to public...
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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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Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) are selling Christmas trees door-to-door. Stan unintentionally insults their...
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1929
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Mr. and Mrs. Culpepper (Tiny Sanford and Anita Garvin, respectively) are a nouveau-riche couple who are throwing a fancy...
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1928
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This is arguably Laurel and Hardy's best two-reel silent (the other contender for first place is Big Business). The boys play...
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1928
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are perhaps unique amongst comedians of the 1920s and 1930s, and their silent and sound films...
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1928
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This classic Laurel and Hardy comedy is famous for the pants-ripping scene at the end, but the other parts of it are just as...
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1928
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Laurel and Hardy want to slip out of the house and play poker. Their wives want them to stay home, so they make up a story...
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1928
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Laurel and Hardy are poor and unemployed until a letter arrives informing Hardy that he has inherited a fortune. Hardy moves...
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1928
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This two-reel Laurel and Hardy silent is especially rich in slapstick. The comic duo have been promised five hundred dollars...
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1928
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Up until this two-reeler, Laurel and Hardy's films for Hal Roach were released under the "All-Star Comedy" label; Should...
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1928
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1928
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In this Laurel and Hardy two-reel silent, Stan's toothache is keeping both him and Ollie awake. Their attempts to pull the...
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1928
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This Hal Roach two-reeler was comedian Stan Laurel's last film as a solo player (all his films after this one would be with...
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1927
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Although this is one of the better early films from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, they have obviously not yet teamed up and...
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1927
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This especially funny Charley Chase two-reeler features Oliver Hardy in a supporting role. A girl (Martha Sleeper) rushes off...
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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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Although Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy both appear in this two-reel short, it's not a Laurel and Hardy film in the true sense...
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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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Convict
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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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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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asylum inmate
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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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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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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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Although Oliver Hardy doesn't appear in this comedy, which features his future partner Stan Laurel, his name does -- there is...
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1927
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A pair of adle-pated vagrants on the run from the police take refuge in a posh mansion, assuming the identities of its...
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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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Laurel is Canvasback Clump, an underfed and thoroughly clueless prize-fighter, and Hardy his rather overly optimistic...
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1927
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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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Director
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1926
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A love-starved wife (Priscilla Dean) hires a dim-witted delivery man (Stan Laurel) to make love to her and revive the waning...
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1926
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Pint-sized slapstick comedian Monty Banks stars as Monty Milde, who gets mixed up with dumb detectives and brutal bootleggers...
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1926
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1926
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Director
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1926
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This Hal Roach two-reel comedy was originally meant as a starring vehicle for Clyde Cook, but Cook left the studio so the...
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Director
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1926
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There are a couple of different stories about why Hal Roach signed Mabel Normand to star in films for him. Some say it was...
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Director
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1926
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Stan Laurel had quit acting -- at least temporarily -- to focus on his work as a writer and director. This Hal Roach comedy...
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Director
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1926
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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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Director
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1925
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1925
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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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Director
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1925
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For the whole two reels of this comedy, Stan Laurel plays a drunk, and, while some have compared this film to...
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1925
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1925
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With this two-reel comedy, Stan Laurel began taking on some of the characteristics that later became famous when he teamed up...
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1925
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This two-reel Stan Laurel comedy (made three years before he teamed up with Oliver Hardy) was produced by Joe Rock -- it was...
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1924
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1924
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Although Putting Pants on Phillip was one of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's first efforts as a team, it wasn't the first time...
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1924
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Not to be confused with the 1929 Laurel and Hardy classic of the same name, the silent, two-reel Our Gang comedy Big Business...
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Screen Story
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1924
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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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Smithy
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1924
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1924
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Before teaming up with Oliver Hardy, comedian Stan Laurel starred in a number of very funny parodies. He burlesqued...
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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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Stan Laurel (an Englishman by birth) makes an improbable Asian in this two-reel Joe Rock comedy. As the new baby in the...
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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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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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Tanglefoot
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1923
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1923
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In 1923, Stan Laurel signed a five-year contract with producer Hal Roach (in reality he would be there for only a year before...
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1923
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During his early days working for the Hal Roach studios, the plots to Stan Laurel's comedies were as interchangeable as their...
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1923
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1923
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This one-reel comedy that Stan Laurel made for Hal Roach was basically a remake of a film he did the year before for...
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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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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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In the early '20s, comics would pump out one and two-reel films based on the slightest of plots but rich in gags. Such was...
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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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1923
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1923
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1922
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This slapstick parody of Rudolph Valentino's Blood and Sand really put Stan Laurel on the map as a film comedian. While no...
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Rhubarb Vaselino
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1922
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In this two-reeler, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appear together for the very first time. However, they're a long way from...
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1922
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Whey-faced star comedian Larry Semon played an involuntary rent collector who gets wise to the schemes of a nasty crime boss...
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1921
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1919
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1919
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Stan Laurel's first one-reel film for Hal Roach (whose production company at the time was Rolin) never does answer the...
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1919
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Goonish comedian Larry Semon, whose two-reel laughfests were the envy of Hollywood's "comedy colony," celebrated his second...
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Second Prisonner
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1918
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With this wartime comedy, Larry Semon graduated from one to two-reelers. It was also the first Semon film in which...
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1918
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1918
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Stan Laurel is surprisingly low key in this comic one-reeler, which he made for Hal Roach's company, Rolin. Generally, in his...
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1918
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Larry Semon's films were never strong on plot, but this two-reeler has even less of a story line than usual. It begins with...
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1918
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