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  • Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
  • Format: Black & White, Colour, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Universal Pictures UK
  • DVD Release Date: 3 May 2004
  • Run Time: 208 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0001K2KBQ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,501 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Synopsis
More classic shorts from Stan and Ollie including: a restored black-and-white version of 'Busy Bodies', a computer-colour version of 'Busy Bodies', a restored black-and-white version of the silent comedy with music 'Double Whoopee' a black-and-white version of 'Hog Wild', a computer-colour version of 'Hog Wild', a restored black-and-white version of 'Dirty Work', a computer-colour version of 'Dirty Work', a restored black-and-white version of the silent comedy with music 'The Finishing Touch', a restored black-and-white version of 'The Music Box', and a computer-colour version of 'The Music Box'.

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89 of 89 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars In the Mood for a Good old Giggle?, 2 Jun 2004
The DVD features several of the best Laurel and Hardy short films as they try (and fail) in doing various jobs. "Busy Bodies" shows us the pair working at a sawmill, "Double Whoopee" has Stan and Ollie working at a plush Broadway hotel and thats when the Prince arrives... In "Hog Wild" Mrs Hardy insists that Mr Hardy must put up a rooftop aerial so she can listen to the radio, Mr Laurel does his bst to help (granted the plot is dated but amusing all the same). "Dirty Work" is one of my favorites as the duo show up at the house of a mad scientist offering to sweep his chimney before getting wrapped up in his experiments. "The Finishing Touch" has Laurel and Hardy in the building trade and "Hats off" shows us stills of an extinct classic which inspired the best short on the DVD "The Music Box". In which the pair have to deliver a piano up a never-ending flight of stairs, their task isn't helped by passers by including a policeman, a young woman and a big headed Professor. After afew up hill and down hill trips the due reach the top only to be told that they could have taken the road! "Double Whoopee" and "The Finishing Touch" are both silent with a music score, but it doesn't make them any less entertaining. The others are all available to watch in restored black and white and in a computer-colour version!!
All in all these classics are delightful. To me they're better than many modern day comedies, even the menue screen is amusing to watch!! If your in the mood for good old giggle don't hesitate to buy these much loved classic.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I have nothing to say, 28 Sep 2006
By Gille Liath (Lancashire) - See all my reviews
If you were to buy only one volume of this series (though they've tried to spread the goodies as thinly as possible) this might well be it. It features three fine films in `Dirty Work' (chimney sweeps), `Busy Bodies' (sawmill) and `Hog Wild' (radio aerial); whilst many consider `The Music Box' the best thing they ever did. These all have the simplicity and concentration of L&H at their best; bewilderingly, inexplicably (to them, I mean) the mayhem escalates until at last the whole house falls down. Or whatever. The two silent shorts aren't quite in the same class, but they're good enough fun.

The restored prints look great, but an irritating feature of these DVD re-issues is that you can't run them continuously - partly because the running time is bulked out with superfluous colourised versions. This means every twenty minutes you have to fiddle about with the menus.

The genius of Stan and Ollie can't be pinned down to any one, or even half-dozen films, but if this disc included `Towed in a Hole' it would come close (yes, that's the fishing boat one).
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Laurel & Hardy - The Search is over !!, 9 Nov 2006
Ah, here is the U.S. we can't get really great copies of "The Boys", like you have here in the U.K.. I concur with the Reviewer who said: "If you could own only one copy of Laurel & Hardy, this would be it".

Let me tell you that this has been a lifetime search for me, and probably for many in the U.S. Our copies of Laurel & Hardy movies are terrible. I have copies made from 16mm films, copies made from schlock houses, and regular copies sold from Amazon.com (it's not Amazon's fault) in the U.S, and they're all terrible.

This DVD is a stellar transfer and restoration. I thought I might not like to see "The Boys" in color, but I have to tell you that I still enjoyed the movies.

Anyways, "Thanks Amazon.com/UK", I'll be buying my movies here. Oh yes, I do own a PAL VCR and a PAL DVD player - that's the expense I'm willing to incur to see Great Movies.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great dvd for all the family
Watched the Laurel & Hardy dvd after a long time and really enjoyed it and my kids loved it too! Very funny and entertaining and a great family dvd
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Job To Do
A Job To Do is hilarious. It only recieves 4 stars from me because it is out-done by Way Out West, which would be a 5-star.
Published on 23 Jun 2005

5.0 out of 5 stars A JOB TO DO
a most underated classic, the re-coloured versions are exellent.

second only to the fishing boat short.

Published on 18 Oct 2004 by mr mark warren

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