Laurel & Hardy and Friends (Featuring "Our Gang")
by Gordon Douglas, James Parrott, James W. Horne, Robert F. McGowan
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Actor: Anita Garvin, Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Thelma ToddDirector: Gordon Douglas, James Parrott, James W. Horne, Robert F. McGowan
Producer: Robert F. McGowan
Producer: Hal Roach
Producer: Sidney S. Van Keuren
Writer: H.M. Walker
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-03-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Laurel & Hardy and Friends (Featuring "Our Gang")
Movie Review: Great Friends, Feeble Doings
Summary: 2 Stars
There are so few collections of the Hal Roach comedies in the U.S. market that one hates to complain about a collection culled from the golden era of the "Lot of Fun," but when there's so much first-rate material sitting in vaults and a collection like this one is what we have to make do with, it sets the teeth to grinding.
There are a couple of gems here, both of them "Our Gang" subjects: "Our Gang Follies of 1938" and "School's Out," each a representative and funny outing for different groupings of the Gang. "Follies" manages to be a funny vaudeville review and MGM musical satire simultaneously, with a big assist from Henry "Barnaby" Brandon, and is a wonderful plus to this collection.
Otherwise, there's Laurel & Hardy's fizzled "Be Big," the Gang's much lesser "Bear Shooters," yet another round of "The Stolen Jools" (does every DVD label on the planet have to issue this one?), and, I'm sorry to say, "Whispering Whoopee." There is so little Charley Chase material available that I hate to disparage any little crumb we get, but in spite of the efforts of Charley, Thelma Todd, Anita Garvin, and good old Del Henderson, "Whoopee" just doesn't amount to much.
Print quality on all subjects except "Whispering Whoopee" is excellent, having been mastered 35mm material, some of it from nitrate camera negatives.
This title was the 10th and the last (to date) of the Hal Roach Studios "Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy" series. There are many better collections among the previous nine disks. In fact, there are better packages for the weak Fox and MGM comedies that finished the boys' movie career. When is somebody (stateside) going to wake up to the gold mine of comedy in the Roach Studios vaults?
Summary of Laurel & Hardy and Friends (Featuring "Our Gang")
This hilarious collection of shorts includes Laurel and Hardy's "Be Big!" (1930, 28 min.), the Our Gang comedies "Our Gang Follies of 1938" (1937, 21 min.), "School's Out" (1930, 21 min.) and "Bear Shooters" (1930, 20 min.), an all-star cast headed by Laurel & Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Buster Keaton and Norma Shearer in "The Stolen Jools" (1931, 18 min.) and Charley Chase and Thelma Todd in "Whispering Whoopee" (1930, 20 min.).Comedy DVD Video
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