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Laurel & Hardy - The Collection (21-disc Box Set) [DVD]

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Product details

  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Dubbed: None
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Audio Description: None
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 21
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Universal Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: 3 May 2004
  • Run Time: 4119 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (264 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0001K2KE8
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,427 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Product Description

This 21-disc box set includes 20 classic Laurel & Hardy films and various shorts, plus a bonus disc containing the original version of Brats (1930), extracts from the German version of Pardon Us (1931), Thundering Fleas (1926), Fluttering Hearts (1927), Prudence (1927) and the documentary Laurel & Hardy--A Tribute to the Boys (1991).

A 21-disc box set of classic Laurel and Hardy comedy containing the following:

  • 1. A Chump At Oxford/Related Shorts
  • 2. Classic Shorts/Someone's Ailing
  • 3. Way Out West/Shorts
  • 4. Classic Shorts/Ollie And Matrimony
  • 5. Our Relations/Dual Roles Shorts
  • 6. Classic Shorts/Murder In The Air
  • 7. Blockheads/Themed Shorts
  • 8. Classic Shorts/Blackmail
  • 9. The Bohemian Girl/Related Shorts
  • 10. Classic Shorts/Be Big/Laughing Gravy
  • 11. Saps At Sea/Themed Shorts
  • 12. Classic Shorts/Laurel And Hardy And The Law
  • 13. Sons Of The Desert/Related Shorts
  • 14. Classic Shorts/A Job To Do
  • 15. Pack Up Your Troubles/Related Shorts
  • 16. Classic Shorts/Maritime Adventures
  • 17. Swiss Miss/Animal Shorts
  • 18. Classic Shorts/Married Life
  • 19. Pardon Us/One Prison Short
  • 20. Classic Shorts/More Brushes With The Law
  • 21. Bonus disc: Original version of Brats (1930), extracts from German version of Pardon Us (1931), Thundering Fleas (1926), Fluttering Hearts (1927), Prudence (1927) and the documentary Laurel & Hardy - A Tribute To The Boys (1991)

Product Description

Laurel & Hardy: The Disc CollectionA huge and hilarious boxset of the twenty one Laurel & Hardy DVDs released by Universal. A huge, definitive and digital account of Laurel & Hardy's classic career ranging from 1918 to about 1940. Among loads of classi


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336 of 341 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars great package 6 May 2004
At last a DVD boxset available in the UK containing nearly all the Hal Roach classics from 1926-1940.

Packing is fantastic with silver lettering complementing the black and white drawings of L&H. Each disc has a 3-4 page leaflet with production notes and photos.

20 DVDs of classic shorts and feature films plus a bonus disc containing the rarely seen original 1930s version of Brats and the 1991 documentary.

The B&W versions are the newly restored prints, which are the same as the renowned German Kinowelt series. Also included are colour versions, which although derided by film buffs and L&H historians are not as bad as has been said. Sure the clarity is not as high on the colour versions but some are fine and are certainly not a waste of disc space as has been suggested.

For completists this set is missing the feature films Fra Viavolo, Bonnie Scotland and Flying Dueces and Babes in Toyland. But the 3 of these are I think owned by MGM and did not appear on the Kinowelt boxsets either. Whilst babes in Toyland is far from a L&H classic and is mostly one good scene with musical filler material. If you want to argue that the boxset is not complete then you might as well complain that it contains none of their 1941 -1 954 features.

As it is what you get here is all the material that's worth having in a great package with a documentary bonus disc and rare foreign language versions of Murder Case, Blotto, Laughing Gravy and more which because L&H performed these phonetically contain slightly different scenes from the English spoken ones.

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As the real gems of this collection are not so very much the feature films but the two-reelers between 1928-1934, I have made a list of all films included in this collection with disc-reference (bracketed) and in order of the first release date:

Thundering Fleas (21) 04.07.1926
Along Came Auntie (9) 25.07.1926
45 Minutes from Hollywood (12) 26.12.1926
Duck Soup (12) 13.03.1927
Slipping Wives (10) 03.04.1927
Jewish Prudence (21) 08.05.1927
Love 'Em and Weep (8) 12.06.1927
Fluttering Hearts (21) 19.06.1927
Why Girls Love Sailors (16) 17.07.1927
With Love and Hisses (7) 28.08.1927
Sugar Daddies (8) 10.09.1927
Sailors Beware (16) 25.09.1927
The Second 100 Years (12) 08.10.1927
Call of the Cuckoo (12) 15.10.1927
Do Detectives Think? (20) 20.11.1927
Putting Pants on Philip (15) 03.12.1927
The Battle of the Century (19) 31.12.1927
Leave 'Em Laughing (2) 28.01.1928
Flying Elephants (17) 12.02.1928
The Finishing Touch (14) 25.02.1928
From Soup to Nuts (1) 24.03.1928
You're Darn Tootin' (11) 21.04.1928
Their Purple Moment (13) 19.05.1928
Should Married Men Go Home? (7) 08.09.1928
Early to Bed (8) 06.10.1928
Two Tars (16) 03.11.1928
Habeas Corpus (20) 01.12.1928
We Faw Down (13) 29.12.1928
Liberty (20) 26.01.1929
Wrong Again (20) 23.02.1929
That's My Wife (9) 23.03.1929
Big Business (12) 20.04.1929
Unaccustomed As We Are (7) 04.05.1929
Double Whoopee (14) 18.05.1929
Berth Marks (6) 01.06.1929
Men O'War (16) 29.06.1929
Perfect Day (2) 10.08.1929
They Go Boom! (2) 21.09.1929
Bacon Grabbers (20) 19.10.1929
The Hoose-Gow (19) 16.11.1929
Angora Love (20) 14.12.1929
Night Owls (12) 04.01.1930
Blotto (18) 08.02.1930
Brats (5/21) 22.03.1930
Below Zero (11) 26.04.1930
Hog Wild (14) 31.05.1930
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (6) 06.09.1930
Another Fine Mess (1) 29.11.1930
Be Big! (18) 07.02.1931
Chickens Come Home (8) 21.02.1931
Laughing Gravy (10) 04.04.1931
Our Wife (4) 16.05.1931
Come Clean (8) 19.09.1931
Pardon Us (19) 15.10.1931
One Good Turn (3) 31.10.1931
Beau Hunks (4) 12.12.1931
On the Loose (9) 26.12.1931
Helpmates (4) 23.01.1932
Any Old Port! (16) 05.03.1932
The Music Box (14) 16.04.1932
The Chimp (17) 21.05.1932
County Hospital (2) 25.06.1932
Scram! (12) 10.09.1932
Pack Up Your Troubles (15) 17.09.1932
Their First Mistake (15) 05.11.1932
Towed in a Hole (16) 31.12.1932
Twice Two (5) 25.02.1933
Me and My Pal (4) 22.04.1933
The Midnight Patrol (20) 03.08.1933
Busy Bodies (14) 07.10.1933
Dirty Work (14) 25.11.1933
Sons of the Desert (13) 29.12.1933
Oliver the Eighth (6) 13.01.1934
Going Bye-Bye! (20) 23.06.1934
Them Thar Hills (2) 21.07.1934
The Live Ghost (16) 08.12.1934
Tit for Tat (2) 05.01.1935
The Fixer Uppers (10) 09.02.1935
Thicker Than Water (3) 16.03.1935
The Bohemian Girl (9) 14.02.1936
On the Wrong Trek (13) 18.04.1936
Our Relations (5) 30.10.1936
Way Out West (3) 16.04.1937
Swiss Miss (17) 20.05.1938
Block-Heads (7) 19.08.1938
A Chump at Oxford (1) 25.01.1940
Saps at Sea (11) 29.04.1940

(if there's a mistake in the list please let me know)

Not included in my list are:
- Hats off (only stills)
- documentary
- all the spanish and french versions which are quite interesting, since they often vary strongly from the original version, but unfortunately they are not subtitled.

Picture and sound are good. Packing is very good (slimcase).
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer bliss - this box set deserves 50 stars! 25 Jan 2007
As an American, I purchased a region-free DVD player for two specific purposes: to attain "The Comic Strip Presents Complete" and this set. Only a handful of Laurel & Hardy films are available on DVD stateside. Half of those are the cinematic abominations produced at MGM and 20th Century Fox in the '40s and the other half are poorly-transferred television edits of some of the films you'll find here. However, the movies HERE have been beautifully restored and are presented uncut. THIS is the collection you want/need. The films are silent and sound shorts produced at the Hal Roach Studios throughout the '20s and '30s and they are as hilarious today as they were then. There a few minor omissions (films in the public domain which are also available in decent versions on DVD - namely "The Devil's Brother" and "Bonnie Scotland"). If you love comedy, do yourself a favor and but this immediately. Universal did this up right!
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