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Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years - 1927
The Masters of Cinema series is proud to present the early works of Laurel & Hardy - painstakingly restored from the best available materials held by collectors and archives around the globe - in a special two-disc Blu-ray edition for the first time in the UK, mastered from new 2K restorations.
Standing tall alongside Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin as pioneers of cinematic comedy, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are two of the most beloved comedians in the history of moving pictures. Having acted alongside each other for the first time in 1921, they officially teamed up later in the decade in a series of shorts made for producer Hal Roach - launching a wildly successful partnership that would survive into the sound era and last for another quarter of a century.
This collection captures the duo's earliest (mis)adventures on screen, chronicling their journey from their first films together - The Lucky Dog and the aptly titled 45 Minutes From Hollywood - to the dawn of their official partnership in thirteen shorts produced throughout 1927. From Duck Soup and Sailors, Beware! to Do Detectives Think?, Putting Pants On Philip and The Battle Of The Century (once available only in incomplete versions until its missing scenes were rediscovered in 2015), these films show the development of two independent comedians into the most influential and celebrated comedy duo of all time.
The set contains:
Lucky Dog
45 Minutes From Hollywood
Duck Soup
Slipping Wives
Love 'em And Weep
Why Girls Love Sailors
With Love And Hisses
Sailors, Beware!
Do Detectives Think?
Flying Elephants
Sugar Daddies
The Second 100 Years
Call Of The Cuckoo
Putting Pants On Philip
The Battle Of The Century
First released: Monday 26th August 2024
Extra features
- Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Scott Saslow (first 2,000 copies)
- Scores by a variety of silent film composers including Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola, Eric le Guen and Donald Sosin
- Alternate scores on select shorts
- Audio commentary tracks on all films
- New interviews with silent film experts
- Image galleries
- Archival recordings and interviews
- A collector's booklet featuring newly written notes on each film by Paul Merton, and a new essay by Imogen Sara Smith
Blu-ray New- Distributor: Eureka Entertainment
- Region: B
- Discs: 2
- Minutes: 315
- Catalogue: EKA70540
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