Laurel & Hardy, a list by Jef Westerveld

7.6

/3641/

72

/82/

66

/98/

3.7

/2534/

80

/96/

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.

72

52

7.5

/2063/

66

/48/

68

/58/

3.7

/1654/

77

/74/

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.

58

42

4.9

/1918/

59

/53/

54

/48/

2.5

/1576/

80

/922/

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

64

34

6.9

/1397/

66

/25/

67

/32/

3.4

/672/

52

/52/

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.

61

28

6.8

/1240/

62

/32/

63

/29/

3.4

/731/

47

/26/

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.

66

27

6.7

/997/

68

/25/

62

/35/

3.4

/723/

Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.

54

27

5.7

/1281/

50

/24/

56

/30/

3.0

/723/

50

/33/

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

64

23

6.8

/1013/

64

/18/

64

/26/

3.4

/399/

53

/18/

Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord.

65

23

7.0

/1067/

66

/27/

66

/36/

3.5

/549/

57

/2/

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."

54

22

5.9

/793/

53

/21/

57

/23/

3.1

/484/

43

/37/

Cavemen Stan and Ollie vie for the affections of a stone-age beauty.

66

19

6.6

/729/

65

/16/

67

/22/

3.3

/433/

A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.

61

19

6.9

/833/

67

/17/

63

/25/

3.4

/361/

38

/12/

Two debt collectors try to repossess a console radio.

62

19

6.2

/818/

61

/20/

61

/25/

3.3

/474/

Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.

56

18

5.4

/715/

59

/24/

52

/28/

3.0

/475/

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.

56

18

6.1

/786/

63

/23/

59

/24/

3.2

/499/

33

/13/

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.

60

17

5.9

/733/

63

/19/

57

/22/

3.1

/390/

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

64

17

6.8

/863/

68

/18/

66

/25/

3.4

/412/

50

/2/

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.

55

16

6.4

/725/

63

/24/

55

/20/

3.2

/422/

33

/14/

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.

65

11

6.3

/458/

73

/6/

66

/15/

3.3

/272/

60

/3/

Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was released 30 July 1925.

53

10

5.7

/524/

60

/6/

53

/21/

3.2

/205/

33

/1/

After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit into cases. Then he heads to a storage area, and tries to use the machinery to escape his pursuers.

49

9

5.2

/325/

41

/5/

45

/11/

3.0

/472/

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.

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5.4

/19/

42

/3/

Billy West tries to court/swindle Little Nell (big Oliver Hardy in drags). but her father is in the way.

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6.2

/121/

70

/1/

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman. In prison, Stan's loose tooth keeps getting him in trouble, because it sounds like he's giving everybody a rasp- berry. But it earns him the respect of The Tiger, a rough prisoner, and the boys manage to slip away during The Tiger's escape attempt. They disguise themselves in blackface and hide on a cotton plantation, but are recaptured when the warden happens by. Back in the big house, they find themselves in a hail of bullets, caught between the state militia and gun-toting prisoners, when The Tiger tries another escape.

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7.1

/10/

Documentary short about Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy which covers a visit in Scotland of the two comedic geniuses.

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5.5

/48/

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.

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55

/1/

A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy.

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7.1

/76/

N/A

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6.7

/32/

70

/1/

55

/2/

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.

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5.8

/16/

48

/2/

N/A

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5.5

/26/

48

/2/

Billy West comedy produced by Cumberland and distributed by Arrow.

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5.4

/36/

50

/1/

FIDDLIN AROUND' (1925) (Starring Babe Hardy).

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5.0

/37/

45

/2/

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.

54

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5.3

/130/

53

/3/

57

/3/

Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband and being chased by the police.

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4.7

/62/

41

/4/

'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.

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5.3

/39/

55

/2/

The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.

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6.0

/14/

60

/1/

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.

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5.3

/24/

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.

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5.3

/15/

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.

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6.4

/13/

10

/1/

60

/1/

Ikie is always abused by the other schoolboys. Finally he and his father get even.

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60

/1/

N/A

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6.3

/21/

60

/1/

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.

52

?

6.3

/129/

30

/1/

63

/3/

Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short. She does well as the woman at the centre of the story, but it's pretty plain that it's actually the comic mind and performing talents of Stan Laurel, who plays her butler, that make this two-reel short shine.

66

?

5.5

/135/

75

/2/

70

/1/

Stan is a lazy employee at a lumber company. Much of the first portion of the film has to do with Stan trying to sneak into work late--past the violent and rather insane supervisor. Later, however, Stan walks into a plot to steal the company away and frame the owner for a crime he did not commit.

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6.0

/14/

60

/1/

Vitagraph comedy with Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy.

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6.0

/18/

40

/1/

Jimmy, at a fashionable beach, uses binoculars to watch women and falls for a beautiful nursemaid after slipping on a banana peel. His clumsy attempts at romance and subsequent accidents, including falling off the pier and accidentally drenching and injuring a spinster, lead to continuous trouble. The situation escalates into a bizarre chase involving robbers, a whale that swallows him, and an octopus. He awakens to find the high-stakes battle was a dream (or caused by a tangled rope). His real-life efforts to win the nursemaid from a life saver are ultimately thwarted, leaving him stranded in the water once again.

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5.2

/80/

50

/1/

60

/1/

Stan works in a grocery store in the middle of the mountains, buried in snow. The young woman he's in love with is falling for a fraud who pretends to be an officer. Stan has to do something! There's no time to waste!

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5.5

/103/

52

/2/

Laurel plays Winchell McSweeney, whose fisherman parents forced him to leave home and make it on his own when they can no longer afford to keep supporting him. He takes a boat out of the village, but accidentally sets the ship on fire when he attempts to take a photograph of the passengers. The women end up on the island with McSweeney, and is constantly pursued by them, including one Amazon-size girl.

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5.7

/85/