Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations [Blu-ray] [2020] [NTSC]

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That’s That is an oddball (and even off color) set of outtakes from several of their films, which was prepared as a gift for Stanley’s birthday party in 1938. These are on the same disc as the relevant film, so it is very easy to watch the film and then move pretty seamlessly to the gallery while you are still ‘in the zone’. This is probably the one feature they made that never felt a bit padded to hit the requisite 75-minute running time. We've listed all the Laurel And Hardy DVDs and blu-rays below, too, in case you want to see the titles a bit more clearly.

Score: Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch, Dorothy Christy, Lucien Littlefield, Rosina Lawrence, James Finlayson, May Wallace Director: James W. Battle of the Century features high quality sepia-tone footage for the first reel and switches to a 16 mm print for its second reel. What must be noted though, most in this first set are the boys just appearing in the same films because they both were under contract to Hal Roach, but not as the team we have grown to love. dba Freestar (“Freestar”) for the purposes of placing certain advertising on the site, and Freestar will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes.

Such routines are frequently a journey as much for them as they are for the audience, and to the point of tedium, but Laurel and Hardy are masters of persistence, so, after a while, these gags become even more hilarious simply because of their duration. We previously used to have some sections where we listed movies by the year they were released, which you can still look through: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2011-14, 2006-10, before 2006. Each touch on Laurel’s kindness, his ghost-directing nearly every film he appeared in with Hardy, and the joys of working on the Hal Roach lot. Maybe someday Criterion will do a Sons of the Desert that is more than slightly better than the DVD.

Tracy Tolzmann, Grand Sheik of the Block-Heads tent of Minnesota got his discs about a week before me. Skretvedt’s encyclopedic commentaries are enthusiastic and informed with rest-of-the-story background on now obscure players and shooting locations.It’s in these shots where Laurel’s expressive eyebrows and his signature ambiguous smile conveyed the amiable naïveté and sensitivity that quickly came to define him. When I first heard that most of the missing parts of The Battle of the Century had been found, I couldn’t wait to see it. All of the films (including The Tree in a Test Tube and That’s That) have optional commentaries (accessed through the ‘set-up’ menus, by Randy Skretvedt, though Richard W. He has been published in The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, Printer's Row Journal, Los Angeles Times, Movieline and Entertainment Weekly. Their work spans from the latter days of the silent film era all the way up through to the early 1950s.

They all have their fair share of hiss, some more than others, but there are no instances of crackle or dropouts. Alcune comiche di culto che non si trovavano da anni come "La battaglia del secolo" ed altri classici visibili con ottime immagini. When you consider the youngest nitrate print used is over 80 years old this really is some accomplishment, and the various parties involved in the restoration to this standard deserve our sincere and eternal gratitude. Some of our content may contain marketing links, which means we will receive a commission for purchases made via those links. The accompanying booklet credits Blackhawk Films, archives around the world, “dozens of collectors,” and a group of “Laurel and Hardy specialists,” including Randy Skretvedt, author of Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies, for compiling the materials, discovering long-lost treasures and meticulous restorations.This is all rounded out by a series of trailers and a very interesting and rare silent promo (The Tree in a Test Tube) from the U. Not necessarily top tier Laurel and Hardy (the full-length films never were), but it features perhaps their most charming and endearing moment – the soft shoe dance routine to the tune of “At the Ball, That’s All” manages to be both life-affirming and hilarious at the same time. Bonus Extras: 2 Note however, Randy’s commentary of That’s That helps it massively; turning it from a jumble of unconnected clips to what it is; confirmation of source; who is in it and many more things I wouldn’t have thought of looking for.

His love of movies began as a young child, first showing Super 8 movies in his backyard during the summer to friends and neighbors at age 10. com is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Pay4Later Limited, trading as Deko, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 728646). In Way Out West, they make their way to a small town to inform a young woman of an inheritance, but run into greedy locals who want to cash in. This, I think, illustrates Randy’s point very well with the highlighted area showing what we are used to seeing, and the rest of the image confirming what you can expect with these versions! The Tree in a Test Tube is a color short film featuring Laurel and Hardy as two narrators, including Pete Smith, talk about various items made from the byproducts of trees.Anyway, he gave me a great tip : “If you are familiar with the film (which you probably are), go straight to the version with the commentary”. 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! For younger viewers, this is an excellent introduction in the finest quality available with a boatload of extras. When the VHS videos were released, I went out and bought everything I could get my hands on and then the DVD box-set came out… well, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Some people have complained about the image quality of the BluRay, but believe me, you see just about what is there in the film prints, and in some cases it is a big improvement.