Laurel & Hardy Collection - 6-Disc Boxset ( Great Guns / The Dancing Masters / A-Haunting We Will Go / The Big Noise / Jitterbug / The Bullfighters )

Laurel & Hardy Collection - 6-Disc Boxset (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Great Guns / The Dancing Masters / A-Haunting We Will Go / The Big Noise / Jitterbug / The Bullfighters
Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Mono )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Finland ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
410 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1917 - 1943 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
A. Edward Sutherland
Larry Semon
Jess Robbins
Charles McDonald
William C. McGann
Ted Burnsten
Norman Taurog
Gilbert Pratt
Joe Rock
George Jeske
Leo McCarey
Fred Guiol
Richard Wallace
Hal Roach
Ralph Ceder
Robert F. McGowan
Arvid E. Gillstrom
Scott Pembroke

Written By:
Ralph Spence
Charley Rogers
L. Frank Baum
Frank Joslyn Baum
Jess Robbins
Charles McDonald
William C. McGann
Ted Burnsten
Larry Semon
Norman Taurog
Tom Miranda
Tay Garnett
George Jeske
Charles Alphin
H.M. Walker
Carl Harbaugh
Stan Laurel
Hal Conklin
Hal Roach
Arvid E. Gillstrom
Scott Pembroke

Actors:
Stan Laurel ..... Stan
Oliver Hardy ..... Ollie
Jean Parker ..... Georgette
Reginald Gardiner ..... Francois
Charles Middleton ..... Commandant
Jean Del Val ..... Sergeant
Crane Whitley ..... Corporal
James Finlayson ..... Jailor
Dorothy Dwan ..... Dorothy
Mary Carr ..... Aunt Em
Virginia Pearson ..... Lady Vishuss
Bryant Washburn ..... Prince Kynd
Josef Swickard ..... Prime Minister Kruel
Charles Murray ..... Wizard of Oz
Oliver Hardy ..... Woodsman / Knight of the Garter / Farmhand
William Hauber ..... Undetermined Role
William Dinus ..... Undetermined Role
Frank Alexander ..... Uncle Henry
Otto Lederer ..... Ambassador Wikked
Frederick Ko Vert ..... Phantom of the Basket
Larry Semon ..... Scarecrow
Spencer Bell ..... Cowardly Lion
Stan Laurel ..... Brash young man accused of dognapping
Florence Gillet ..... Poodle owner
Oliver Hardy ..... Masked bandit who confronts Laurel
Jack Lloyd ..... Boyfriend
Oliver Hardy ..... Oliver
Pete Smith ..... Interlocutor
Lee Vickers ..... Narrator
Wallace Beery ..... Police Sergeant
Buster Keaton ..... Policeman
Jack Hill ..... Policeman
J. Farrell MacDonald ..... Policeman
Edward G. Robinson ..... Gangster
George E. Stone ..... Gangster
Eddie Kane ..... The detective investigating the theft
Stan Laurel ..... Policeman
Oliver Hardy ..... Police Driver
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins ..... Farina
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard ..... Stymie
Norman 'Chubby' Chaney ..... Chubby
Mary Ann Jackson ..... Herself
Shirley Jean Rickert ..... Shirley Jean
Dorothy DeBorba ..... Echo
Bobby Ray ..... A bellhop
Oliver Hardy ..... A bellhop
Janet Dawn ..... Saleswoman
Frank Alexander ..... Hotel guest
Larry Semon ..... The dumb-bell
Oliver Hardy ..... The foreman
Frank Alexander ..... Mill owner
Kathleen O'Connor ..... The boss's daughter
Ann Hastings ..... The owner's daughter
Al Thompson ..... The boss
Rosa Gore
William Hauber
Peter Ormonds
Pal the Dog
Stan Laurel ..... Rhubarb Vaselino
Stan Laurel ..... Stan, a tenderfoot
Stan Laurel ..... Sunkist
Katherine Grant ..... Little Valencia
Eddie Baker ..... Orange Blossom, the boss
George Rowe ..... Worker
Sammy Brooks ..... Worker
Mark Jones ..... Worker
'Tonnage' Martin Wolfkeil ..... Worker
James Finlayson ..... Worker
Charley Chase ..... Charley
Corliss Palmer ..... Madge
William Orlamond ..... Madge's Father
Oliver Hardy ..... Cab Driver
L.J. O'Connor ..... The Cop
Charley Chase ..... Wilson, the Groom
William V. Mong ..... George, the Bride's Father
Martha Sleeper ..... The Bride
Milla Davenport ..... Mother
William Blaisdell ..... Gov. Harrison
Max Asher ..... Butler
Al Hallett ..... Mr. Gloom, the valet
Glenn Tryon ..... Remington Chow - the 2nd Husband
Vivien Oakland ..... Mrs. Remington Chow - the Wife
Oliver Hardy ..... Mr. Vincent Belcher - the First Husband
Tyler Brooke ..... The Under-Sheriff
Martha Sleeper ..... Marie, the Maid
Lucy Beaumont ..... Aunt Alvira
Frank L. Wilson
Stan Laurel ..... McPherson's son
James Finlayson ..... McGregor's son
Mickey Daniels ..... McPherson kid
Ena Gregory ..... McGregor's daughter
George Rowe ..... Blacksmith
Mary Kornman ..... McGregor kid
Leo Willis ..... McGregor
Jack Gavin ..... McPherson
'Tonnage' Martin Wolfkeil ..... McHungry's son
Sammy Brooks ..... McHungry
Helen Gilmore ..... Mrs. McHungry
Stan Laurel ..... Smithy
James Finlayson ..... Sergeant
William Gillespie ..... The Boss
Stan Laurel ..... Bob Canister
Ena Gregory ..... The girl
Mae Laurel ..... Woman in saloon
James Finlayson ..... Smacknamara
Billy Engle ..... Prospector
Eddie Baker ..... Prospector
George Rowe ..... Man in saloon
Jack Ackroyd ..... Henchman
Jack Gavin ..... Prospector
Marvin Loback ..... Henchman
Joe Bordeaux
Sammy Brooks
Al Forbes
Katherine Grant
John B. O'Brien
Lassie Lou Ahern ..... Flower Girl at the Adult Wedding
Harry Bowen ..... Watcher of flea circus
Allan Cavan ..... Father of the bride
Charley Chase ..... Mustachioed wedding guest
Joe Cobb ..... Joe
Jackie Condon ..... Jackie
Mickey Daniels ..... Mickey
Johnny Downs ..... Johnny
Alex Finlayson ..... Musician
James Finlayson ..... Justice of the Peace
George B. French ..... Professor Clements
Charlie Hall ..... Musician
Oliver Hardy ..... Officer
Jannie Hoskins
Stan Laurel ..... Street cleaner
James Finlayson ..... Dental patient
Marvin Loback ..... A cop
Katherine Grant ..... Nurse
Mark Jones ..... Dental patient
George Rowe ..... Cross-eyed man with dime
William Gillespie
Billy West ..... The Hobo
Oliver Hardy ..... Harold
Leo White ..... Mr. Fox
Bud Ross ..... Dolly
Virginia Clark ..... Brakeman
Harry Naughton
Clyde Cook ..... Cyril D'Armond
Noah Young ..... The ex-husband
Fay Holderness ..... Verbena Singlefoot (the new wife)
Martha Sleeper ..... Smyrna
Oliver Hardy ..... Doctor
William Gillespie ..... Train passenger
Helen Gilmore ..... Train passenger
Billy West ..... Billy
Ethelyn Gibson ..... Apache dancer
William Dyer ..... Brother Dave
Les Bates ..... Lawyer Brown

Synopsis:

Since 1927, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were one of the most popular comic film duo ever created. Both had previously had a successful solo career. They became a world famous duo: The bossy, fat and complacent Oliver Hardy and the naive, shy and thin Stan Laurel. They were both awkward and they showed the most simple situations in haywire. Between 1927 and 1950 together they made 105 short and long films.

List of Films:
Great Guns (1941)
The Dancing Masters (1943)
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
The Big Noise (1944)
Jitterbug (1943)
The Bullfighters (1945)

Great Guns (1941)
Laurel and Hardy work for sickly heir Dan Forrester, who has been diagnosed with a myriad of debilitating allergies. However, when the draft board sees things differently and he seems very happy to leave the confines of his sick room, his loyal employees join him in the U. S. Army. He seems to thrive on Army chow and regimen and even becomes a rival to the growling Sergeant Hippo for the affections of beautiful post employee Ginger Hammond . The bumbling Stan and Ollie also get a chance to redeem themselves when they participate in the all-important war game maneuvers.

The Dancing Masters (1943)
This Laurel and Hardy vehicle casts Stan and Ollie as the proprietors of the 'Arthur Hurry' dance studio. Despite a rather sizeable student body, the boys would starve to death were it not for their only paying customer, socialite Trudy Harlan (Trudy Marshall). Trudy is in love with Grant Lawrence (Robert Bailey), an aspiring inventor who needs financial backing for his revolutionary new flame thrower. Laurel and Hardy undertake several moneymaking schemes to help Grant, most of these coming a-cropper. Finally, Ollie remembers an accident-insurance policy taken out on Stan. He tries to arrange an accident so that the boys can collect a huge fee, but this scheme culminates in a wild bus ride, resulting in Ollie breaking his own leg.

A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
Broke as usual, the duo is given 24 hours to get out of town by the local constabulary. In dire need of travelling expenses, they take a job accompanying a coffin to Dayton, Ohio. Unbeknownst to our heroes, the coffin contains a live gangster: one Darby Mason (James Bush), who wants to get to Dayton to claim an inheritance without risking arrest by the Feds. Chugging towards their destination by train, Stan and Ollie lose their money to a pair of slick con artists but are bailed out by another passenger, Dante the Magician (played by 'himself', aka Harry A. Janssen), who takes a liking to the boys and hires him as assistants for his magic act. It so happens that one of Dante's illusions involves a coffin - and you guessed it, this coffin gets mixed up with the one bearing Darby Mason.

The Big Noise (1944) Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play janitors for a detective agency who pose as super-sleuths when they're hired to protect inventor Alva P. Hartley (Arthur Space). Moving bag and baggage into Hartley's gadget-laden house, Stan and Ollie must first contend with the inventor's bratty son Egbert (Bobby Blake, aka Robert Blake) and much-married Aunt Sophie (Esther Howard). More problems ensue when Hartley's next door neighbors Charlton (Frank Fenton), Hartman (James Bush), Dutchy (Phil Van Zandt) and Mayme (Veda Ann Borg) reveal themselves as the crooks they really are. Entrusted with Hartley's latest invention, super-bomb called 'The Big Noise', Stan and Ollie skeedaddle to Washington, just one step ahead of the criminals. Escaping the villains, the boys take flight in a balky airplane, only to find that they're the targets for Army gunnery practice. Our heroes save themselves-and the day-when they use the bomb to destroy a Japanese submarine. Long regarded as the worst of Laurel & Hardy's feature films, The Big Noise has in recent years been championed by several of the team's fans, not least because the admittedly patchy storyline incorporates several of their classic routines from such earlier 2-reelers as Habeas Corpus, Wrong Again and Berth Marks. Arguably the film's best scene finds Stan and Ollie trying to gorge themselves on a 'banquet' consisting of dehydrated food capsules.

Jitterbug (1943)
If Jitterbugs is, as has often been claimed, the best of Laurel & Hardy's 20th Century-Fox films, it is because the studio was using the picture as a showcase for their newest singing discovery Vivian Blaine. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of travelling 'zoot suit' musicians who innocently team up with likable con man Chester Wright (Bob Bailey). In the course of their travels, Chester and the boys meet small-town girl Susan Cowan (Blaine), whose mother has been victimized by real-estate swindlers Corcoran (Robert Emmett Keane) and Bennett (Douglas Fowley). Reasoning that it takes a crook to catch a crook, Chester masterminds a complicated 'sting' to recover Mrs. Cowan's money. Chester's scheme requires Hardy to disguise himself as amorous Southern colonel Wattison Bixby, and obliges Laurel to don women's clothing as Susan's Aunt Emily. Alas, the boys aren't quite up to the rigors of the confidence racket, and as result they end up the prisoners of Bennett's partner, gangster Tony Queen (Noel Madison). In escaping their captors, Laurel and Hardy utilize Chester's phony 'gas pills', which when swallowed cause the bad guys to float to the ceiling! The film concludes with a wild runaway-showboat sequence, consisting largely of stock footage from the 1938 Fox musical Sally, Irene and Mary. Worth the admission price in itself is the romantic rendezvous between Oliver Hardy and phony Southern belle Lee Patrick.

The Bullfighters (1945)
Stan and Ollie play a couple of detectives from Peoria, Illinois, who fly to Mexico City to arrest the notorious Larceny Nell (Carol Andrews). Their South-of-the-Border visit coincides with the much-anticipated arrival of famed Spanish bullfighter Don Sebastian-who happens to be the exact double of Stan Laurel! When Don Sebastian's Mexican debut is delayed by passport problems, press agent Hotshot Coleman (Richard Lane) persuades Stan to take the toreador's place in the bullring. Stan is understandably reluctant until Hotshot threatens to turn the boys over to his business partner, sports promoter Richard K. Muldoon (Ralph Sanford). It seems that several years earlier, Stan and Ollie wrongly sent Muldoon to prison; upon his release, he vowed to someday catch up with the boys and literally skin them alive. With this threat hanging over their heads, Laurel & Hardy are forced to acquiesce to Hotshot's scheme-leading to a chaotic nightclub incident, a hectic misadventure at a bull farm, and a climactic riot at the bull arena when the real Don Sebastian finally shows up. Though it falls apart in the final reel thanks to an overabundance of mismatched stock footage gleaned from Blood and Sand (1941), The Bullfighters is for the most part a fond throwback to Laurel & Hardy's glory days: the highlight is an egg-breaking routine revived from 1934's Hollywood Party.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 26 April, 2018.