Laurel And Hardy - Blackmail - Classic Shorts - No. 8 details
| Format: | U DVD |
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| Starring: | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy |
| Directors: | F. Richard Jones, James W. Horne, Fred Guiol |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Studio: | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Name | Discs | |
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Laurel And Hardy - Blackmail - Classic Shorts - No. 8 |
U Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 3 hours 10 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 03 May 2004 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Two of their best
By neilkelly591 (12 reviews) from Brixton , 20 Sep 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
2 great classics - 'Chickens Come Home' and 'Come Clean' - and worth renting just for those. The rest of this DVD is just colourised versions of these, a Spanish language version of Chickens Come Home and some of their really old silent stuff. Probably very interesting to serious aficionados, but not their best work.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(7)Pretty run of the mill
By DeathOfNarrativeCinema (156 reviews) from Wallingford , 30 Dec 2010You know what you're getting here, really - the usual Stan and Ollie mix, and the usual mix in this particular series of good stuff with stuff that only an obsessive could want - the Spanish version, the colorized version (what a stupid idea that was) and the okay-but-not-Harold-Lloyd silent stuff.
Chickens and Come Clean are good shorts - 3.5 to 4 stars - the rest hovers around 2 or 3.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Another gem, bursting with pleasures
By Savage (632 reviews) from London, England , 08 Feb 2008More comedy greats from Laurel and Hardy, with this disc being especially valuable for a trio of films of 1927/28, after they had started appearing in the same films, but before they had become the team with which we are now familiar. In both 'Love 'em and weep' and 'Sugar daddies' they both get in trouble when the great James Finlayson involves them in his adulterous escapades (although fans should note that Olly barely appears at all in the former, and, when he does, has absolutely no comic business of his own). And in 'Early to bed', Olly inherits a fortune and decides to be magnanimous about it: he hires Stan as his butler, an arrangement which falls apart when Olly uses it to perpetrate a series of practical jokes. This is comic genius in the making, a little slice of 'before they were famous' - and still, I defy anyone to think differently, geniunely, laugh-out-loud funny.- Was this review helpful to you?
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still can make you laugh
By a customer from cannock , 10 Nov 2007this is a classic film- Was this review helpful to you?
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Worth seeing...
By LongJonSilver from Lancs , 24 Jun 2005...just for the moments in Chickens where Stan blabs Oliver's telephone number and both of them carrying the woman on their backs. Apart from that, there are much better videos to watch before this one.- Was this review helpful to you?
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CLASSIC
By a customer from STOKE ON TRENT , 04 Mar 2005THIS IS ANOTHER CLASSIC FROM THE GREAT DUO.- Was this review helpful to you?
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