TV Guide: Oliver Hardy

Listing: The Fighting Kentuckian

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:15:00 -0500

Tue Dec 16 06:15 AM TCM

Video: The Fighting Kentuckian - (Re-issue Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:10:53 -0500

John Wayne and a Laurel-less Oliver Hardy battle landgrabbers in the American Frontier in The Fighting Kentuckian (1950).

Video: The Devil's Brother - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:00:53 -0500

Stanlio (Stan Laurel) frustrates Ollio (Oliver Hardy) with his "fingerwiggle" game in this scene from The Devil's Brother (1933).

Video: The Devil's Brother - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:00:53 -0500

A very drunk Stanlio (Stan Laurel) has a hysterical laughing fit with Ollio (Oliver Hardy)in this scene from The Devil's Brother (1933).

Video: The Devil's Brother - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:00:52 -0500

Stanlio (Stan Laurel) demonstrates his game of "kneesy-easy-nosey" to Ollio (Oliver Hardy) in this scene from The Devil's Brother (1933).

Video: Sons of the Desert - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:04:51 -0500

Oliver (Oliver Hardy) tries to convince his wife to let him attend a men-only convention with his pal Stan (Stan Laurel) in this scene from Sons of the Desert (1933).

Video: Sons of the Desert - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:04:50 -0500

Oliver (Oliver Hardy) and Stan (Stan Laurel) meet an obnoxious jokester at the club gathering in this scene from Sons of the Desert (1933).

Video: Bonnie Scotland - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:52:41 -0500

Oliver (Oliver Hardy) instructs Stan (Stan Laurel) on the proper way to use snuff in this scene from Bonnie Scotland (1935).

Video: Bonnie Scotland - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:52:40 -0500

New army recruits Oliver (Oliver Hardy) and Stan (Stan Laurel) infuriate their sergeant (James Finlayson) in this scene from Bonnie Scotland (1935).

Video: Laurel and Hardy: Lost Films Volume 3

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:50:08 -0500

Mastered from the original 35mm material, this third volume of lost films from the great comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy includes all silent shorts: "Liberty" (1929, 20 min.), "We Faw Down" (1928, 21 min.), the very first on-screen pairing of Stan and Ollie in "The Lucky Dog" (1919, 24 min.), "Love 'Em and Weep" (1927, 24 min.), the Glenn Tryon/Oliver Hardy short "Along Came Auntie" (1926, 24 min.), and the Charley Chase/Oliver Hardy short "Bromo and Juliet" (1926, 24 min.).

Video: All New Adventures, Of Laurel And Hardy

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:06:34 -0500

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy return -- well, sort of -- in this comedy for the whole family. Bronson Pinchot plays the look-alike nephew of Stan Laurel, while Gailard Sartain appears as a man who bears a striking resemblance to his uncle, Oliver Hardy. Just like their uncles, when the younger Stan and Ollie get together, comic chaos is the inevitable result, especially after the duo travel to South Africa and encounter a mummy. F. Murray Abraham also appears in this film, which is not a biography of Laurel and Hardy or a remake of one of their classic films, but a new story inspired by the characters they created. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Little Rascals Series, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:42:18 -0500

Hal Roach's enduring Our Gang comedy shorts tickled audiences between 1922 and 1944. Originally an off-shoot from the extremely popular Sunshine Sammy series, the Our Gang shorts followed the lively adventures of a group of mischievous children as they played and learned the foibles of life. The series gave many juvenile actors their start, most notably Jackie Cooper, who grew up to be a successful leading man, Robert Blake, who had a television and film career, and Darla Hood, who later staffed a couple musicals and became a successful singer of commercial jingles. In early episodes, a slender Oliver Hardy appears. The Little Rascals is the name ascribed to the syndicated, televised episodes from the series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide.

Video: March Of The Wooden Soldiers

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:18:02 -0500

March of the Wooden Soldiers is the 1952 reissue title for Hal Roach's 1934 film version of Victor Herbert's Babes in Toyland. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star as Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee, bumbling apprentices to the master toymaker of Toyland. This joyous fairy-tale community is populated by all the colorful Mother Goose characters we know and love; the one sour apple in the barrel is mean old Silas Barnaby (portrayed by Henry Kleinbach, aka Henry Brandon). Barnaby holds the mortgage on the outsized shoe where Widow Peep (Florence Roberts) and her daughter Little Bo Peep (Charlotte Henry) reside, and where Stannie and Ollie pay room and board. Bo Peep will be forced to marry the odious Barnaby if the rent isn't paid, so Stannie and Ollie try to raise the money by asking the toymaker for a raise. But the boys are fired when Stannie messes up an order from Santa Claus: instead of making six hundred toy soldiers one foot high, the dumb Mr. Dum makes one hundred toy soldiers six feet high. The wedding between

Video: Sons Of The Desert

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:18:04 -0500

Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read: annual binge) in Chicago. That is, Ollie takes the oath, but Stanley balks. When asked why, Stanley answers that he's afraid his wife won't let him go. Ollie is appalled: Every man must be king in his own castle. But when Ollie meekly brings up the subject of the convention with his wife Lollie (Mae Busch), she soon dethrones the king. Lollie wants to take a vacation in the mountains, and is dead-set against her husband going around with a pack of hooligans. But Ollie is determined to attend the convention, and to that end cooks up a scheme with Stanley. Ollie will pretend to be deathly ill; Stan will fix it so the doctor will prescribe a trip to Honolulu. Knowing that his wife can't stand going on sea voyages, Ollie will request that Stan accompany him to Hawaii--then, both men will sneak off to Chicago. A few hitches notwithstanding (Stan hires a veterinarian instead of a doctor, expl

Video: Bonnie Scotland

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:07:29 -0500

Stanley MacLaurel (Stan Laurel), the American black sheep of the MacLaurel clan, stows away on a cattle boat to Scotland in the company of his pal Ollie (Oliver Hardy) so that he can claim his share of his late uncle Angus Ian MacLaurel's fortune. Alas, Stan's inheritance consists of a snuffbox and a pair of bagpipes, while the bulk of the estate goes to Angus' granddaughter Lorna MacLaurel (June Lang) -- provided she move from Scotland to India, where she and her aunt Lady Vi Ormsby (Anne Grey) will reside with Vi's handsome brother, Colonel Gregor MacGregor (Vernon Steele) of His Majesty's Service. After nearly setting fire to their lodgings while trying to cook a fish, the penniless Stan and Ollie are booted out into the street, with Ollie rendered pants-less by a previous misadventure. Heading to a tailor shop to get a new suit of clothes on approval, the boys inadvertently join the British Army, and soon they're shipped off to Colonel MacGregor's regiment in India. Accompanying our heroes is Lorna's swee

Video: Laurel and Hardy: Lost Films Volume 7

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:32:22 -0500

Mastered from the original 35mm material, this seventh volume of lost films from the great comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy includes: Their first "talkie," "Unaccustomed As We Are" (1929, 21 min.), "Should Married Men Go Home" (1928, 22 min., silent), a special talkie version of the silent "Double Whoopee" (1929, 19 min.) created by the Laurel & Hardy Appreciation Society with voices by Stan and Ollie impersonator Chuck McCann, "With Love and Hisses" (1927, 24 min., silent), "Sailors Beware" (1927, 26 min., silent), and the "Hal Roach All Star Comedy" series short "Mixed Nuts" (1934, 18 min.).

Video: Laurel and Hardy: Lost Films Volume 2

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:32:03 -0500

Mastered from the original 35mm material, this second volume of lost films from the great comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy includes: "Double Whoopee" (1929, 20 min., silent) featuring Jean Harlow, "Early to Bed" (1928, 20 min., silent), "Angora Love" (1929, 20 min.) and "Sugar Daddies" (1927, 19 min., silent), plus the Stan Laurel solo shorts: "Roughest Africa" (1923, 24 min., silent) and "Oranges & Lemons" (1923, 15 min., silent).

Video: Laurel and Hardy: Lost Films Volume 9

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:26:46 -0500

Mastered from the original 35mm material, this ninth volume of lost films from the great comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy includes all silent shorts: "You're Darn Tootin'" (1928, 20 min.), "Why Girls Love Sailors" (1927, 23 min., English & French versions), "Battle of the Century" (1927, 28 min., 2 versions), plus the Oliver Hardy solo short "Wandering Papas" (1927, 20 min.), the Our Gang short "Thundering Fleas" (1926, 22 min.) featuring Oliver Hardy, and the Charley Chase short "Mum's the Word" (1926, 21 min.).

Video: Laurel and Hardy: Lost Films Volume 6

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:19:37 -0500

Mastered from the original 35mm material, this sixth volume of lost films from the great comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy includes all silent shorts: "That's My Wife" (1929, 20 min.), "Flying Elephants" (1928, 20 min.), "Putting Pants on Philip" (1928, 20 min.), the Glenn Tryon short "45 Minutes From Hollywood" (1926, 20 min.) featuring the first pairing of Stan and Ollie in a Hal Roach film, the Charley Chase/Oliver Hardy short "Crazy Like a Fox" (1926, 23 min.) and the Stan Laurel solo short "The Soilers" (1923, 10 min.).

Video: Laurel and Hardy: Lost Films Volume 7

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:18:13 -0500

Video: Laurel and Hardy: Lost Films Volume 1

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:14:52 -0500

Mastered from the original 35mm material, this first volume of lost films from the great comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy includes all silent shorts: "Big Business" (1929, 21 min.), "Do Detectives Think?" (1927, 24 min.), "Call of the Cuckoo" (1927, 18 min.) and "The Finishing Touch" (1928, 21 min.), plus the Stan Laurel solo shorts "On the Front Page" (1926, 23 min.) and "Hustling for Health" (1918, 15 min.).