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DVD Description
Contains:
- County Hospital (black & white)
- County Hospital (colourised)
- Them Thar Hills (black & white)
- Them Thar Hill (colourised)
- Tit For Tat (black & white)
- Tit For Tat (colourised)
- Perfect Day (black & white)
- Perfect Day (colourised)
- County Hospital (colourised)
Special Features
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Fullscreen
- Audio: Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
- Black & White/Colourised
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired
- Total Running Time: 3 hours and 16 minutes approx.
- Region Code: 2, 4
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Film technicalities aside, buy this for the classic "Them Thar Hills", the one where they park their caravan by the well which just happens to be full of hard liquor (long story). All together now: pom-pom!
DVD opens with "County Hospital", where Ollie is (again) laid up. Goings-on in the ward are good stuff -- "you brought me hardboiled eggs and nuts?!" -- but the car sequence has dated badly.
DVD opens with "County Hospital", where Ollie is (again) laid up. Goings-on in the ward are good stuff -- "you brought me hardboiled eggs and nuts?!" -- but the car sequence has dated badly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
COUNTRY HOSPITAL(****) sees Ollie laid up in hospital with a broken leg, Stan pays him a visit and causes havoc by being Stan and although the car scene now looks extremely dodgy, the rest is timeless.
THEM THAR HILLS(*****) has Ollie with gout so, under doctors orders he and Stan hire a caravan and get some fresh mountain air, they arrive shortly after a shoot out between the police and some moonshiners who dump the booze down the well which Stan & Ollie dip into to make coffee.
TIT FOR TAT(*****) is the sequel to THEM THAR HILLS after a couple who've run out of petrol stumble upon Stan & Ollie who get the wife sozzled as the husband fills the car up, in this film they run a shop next door to Stan & Ollie and the husband accuses Ollie of a clandestine meeting with his wife which starts a tit for tat of slaps, dunkings, destruction and a general slow burning pettiness. Both films are classic Laurel & Hardy and show why they were masters of their art.
PERFECT DAY(***) sees Stan & Ollie, their wives, an uncle with gout and the dog attempt to set off for a picnic and are thwarted by the neighbour, a puncture and the local vicar amongst other things. It's okay but feels like it's on auto-pilot.
THEY GO BOOM!(***) is another which is okay but nothing special, Ollie has a cold and Stan attempts to nurse him.
LEAVE EM LAUGHING(***) has Stan with toothache, Ollie lures him to the dentist where thay get high on laughing gas, it's a silent film with a slightly off putting jazzy score, the condition of the film is pretty poor and it's the least successful of all the shorts ( all around 20 mins each) on this disc.
There's also 4 colourized versions of some of these films and I'm sure someone spent many a day hunched over a computer but they needn't have bothered because they look awful and are ultimately pointless, I mean, why not go the whole hog and run a laugh track over the films like some dodgy American sitcom?
THEM THAR HILLS(*****) has Ollie with gout so, under doctors orders he and Stan hire a caravan and get some fresh mountain air, they arrive shortly after a shoot out between the police and some moonshiners who dump the booze down the well which Stan & Ollie dip into to make coffee.
TIT FOR TAT(*****) is the sequel to THEM THAR HILLS after a couple who've run out of petrol stumble upon Stan & Ollie who get the wife sozzled as the husband fills the car up, in this film they run a shop next door to Stan & Ollie and the husband accuses Ollie of a clandestine meeting with his wife which starts a tit for tat of slaps, dunkings, destruction and a general slow burning pettiness. Both films are classic Laurel & Hardy and show why they were masters of their art.
PERFECT DAY(***) sees Stan & Ollie, their wives, an uncle with gout and the dog attempt to set off for a picnic and are thwarted by the neighbour, a puncture and the local vicar amongst other things. It's okay but feels like it's on auto-pilot.
THEY GO BOOM!(***) is another which is okay but nothing special, Ollie has a cold and Stan attempts to nurse him.
LEAVE EM LAUGHING(***) has Stan with toothache, Ollie lures him to the dentist where thay get high on laughing gas, it's a silent film with a slightly off putting jazzy score, the condition of the film is pretty poor and it's the least successful of all the shorts ( all around 20 mins each) on this disc.
There's also 4 colourized versions of some of these films and I'm sure someone spent many a day hunched over a computer but they needn't have bothered because they look awful and are ultimately pointless, I mean, why not go the whole hog and run a laugh track over the films like some dodgy American sitcom?
27 of 32 people found the following review helpful
The picture of the sound films is bright and clear, a touch better than in the States (through Hallmark); the silent film looks terrible-why?- I have seen many beautiful prints of silent films, many from early 20s, and from Hal Roach. And why waste space with fuzzy colourized versions? These are so murky that to me they are unwatchable. I would certainly prefer more different shorts instead of any redundancies. I would also like to see the sound in sync with the picture, not a frame ahead. Surely the soundtracks can be re-synchronized. One final note: I have seen all these films in fresh 35mm prints from Hal Roach studios and they are still much, much higher quality than these DVDs, so restored or not, these still do not reflect the actual quality of the movies, even after 70+ years.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Some good shorts, some not-so
First on the disc, County Hospital is a bit lame (pun intended!) where Ollie is in traction. Stan visits but apart from some neat aerobics where a doctor is hurled out the window,... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Tim Kidner
Ignore the colourised versions.
The colourised versions are almost uniformly awful: Nuff said, watch the originals
The County Hospital, Them Thar Hills and Tit for Tat movies on this disc are the best - L&H... Read more
The County Hospital, Them Thar Hills and Tit for Tat movies on this disc are the best - L&H... Read more
Published 5 months ago by AlanMusicMan
Timeless Comedy!
This is a timeless classic, with the famous duo getting in to all sorts of mischief! Contains different sketches on one DVD, with an option for the viewer to watch in colour, or... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mrs. F. M. Newton
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