Laurel And Hardy - Block Heads And Related Shorts -No.7 details
| Format: | U DVD |
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| Starring: | Patricia Ellis, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Billy Gilbert |
| Director: | John G. Blystone |
| Genre: | Comedy - Romantic |
| Studio: | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Name | Discs | |
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Laurel And Hardy - Block Heads And Related Shorts -No.7 |
U Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 3 hours 14 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 03 May 2004 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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The BEST - no doubts!!
By Jason Burns from Plymouth, England , 01 Feb 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
This is L&H's BEST ever film, without a doubt. Beats Way out West, Chump from Oxford, pure CLASSIC! Watch again and again and guarantee you will laugh every time. EXCELLENT!! Pity they don't make films like this these days.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(8)Bring back memories
By Terminato (4 reviews) , 02 Oct 2012Blockheads was very funny and watchable time and time again.. Brings back old memories of when I was young and used to look forward to a regular dose of Laural and Hardy during half term... Other films on the DVD are silent so not as enjoyable.- Was this review helpful to you?
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OK feature, good supports
By DeathOfNarrativeCinema (156 reviews) from Wallingford , 24 Dec 2010The main, fairly late, film, Blockheads, has one great sequence (the wheelchair) and a couple of decent ones (the fight, the garage). Personally I find these later films a bit sad, as L&H were becoming pastiches of themselves by this time, and Oliver's weight in particular was beginning to look uncomfortable.
The related talkie short (Unaccustomed as We Are) is an earlier shot at some of the same material - it's poorly acted in an am-dram sort of way, but more fun than the feature because it moves along better. The silent features are okay (...and Hisses) and very good (Should Married Men...).
A decent package then, but not the best intro to L&H - that would be Towed in a Hole, Sons of the Desert or The Music Box.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Fabulous
By a customer from Manchester , 08 Jan 2009I laughed my socks off. This film is seventy years old and is as funny as anything produced today. Brilliant!- Was this review helpful to you?
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film was a bit better,
By a customer from cannock , 01 Jan 2008watchable although a bit on the slow side for the duo- Was this review helpful to you?
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With love and hisses
By Savage (632 reviews) from London, England , 13 Dec 2007Buried on this disc, along with the rather fine 'Block-heads' (perhaps the last decent film the pair made), is this obscurely-titled and amazingly rare short from 1927. Although the quality of the transfer is dreadful (it's the only surviving copy, so you have to take what you can get), and the humour is surprisingly broad (and not particularly funny), it's worth drawing people's attention to, simply to see where Laurel & Hardy came from. It's from the days before Hal Roach had the bright idea to make them a team, and shows them playing against each other, with Olly as a Sergeant, off to boot camp, and caught between Stan's useless, reluctant recruit and James Finlayson's strutting officer. I think most people will be surprised by the lack of subtlety (or, indeed, sympathy), but it's a fascinating artefact, nonetheless.- Was this review helpful to you?
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