The Laurel & Hardy Collection
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Movie Reviews of The Laurel & Hardy Collection
Movie Review: Not Good
Summary: 1 Stars
Saps at Sea would be the 'feature film' in this set and at this point in L&H's career you can see 'the boys' had lost a few steps hard as they tried. Stick to their first soundies on up to about 1937 for a time frame and you'll be fine.Movie Review: The Laurel & Hardy Collection by Laurel & Hardy
Summary: 1 Stars
Weak collection. Please do not buy it!Movie Review: I think it is agood product.
Summary: 4 Stars
The product is good,but I would be more impress if it could show all the short series as well.The cmplete whole package.Movie Review: Stan & Ollie DESERVE MORE THAN THIS!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Avoid this cheapo release of these great film! subpar prints..certainly NOT from original 35mm elements..wait for the good one to come out down the road!Movie Review: Not the best of Stan and Ollie
Summary: 3 Stars
Go to Amazon.uk and you will find the whole Laurel and Hardy collection (all together or as seperates). There are 21 DVDs in a classy collectable box (DVD 21 is a documentary about the two). The quality is brilliantly restored and has colourised versions as well (may appeal to younger ones).
All the best are here (including early silent ones, extended versions and even some in other languages), apart from The Flying Deuces (made at another studio - MGM I think) and a few of the lesser quality ones (post 40's) which are not as good anyway.
The only problem is that they are Region 2 (PAL) so you may need to get a multiregion DVD player and television that can play PAL.
The cheap DVDs you see around do not contain any of their better stuff (particularly the Hal Roach shorts of around 1930-1940 or the feature films such as Blockheads, Way Out West or Sons of the Desert) but any Laurel and Hardy is worth getting.
The colourised versions are 'television friendly' i.e. with cuts here and there - but it is worth watching them to see Stan's bright red hair and some of the colour tones of the time. However, the black and white versions are by far the best, with clear sharp images (restored) and they remain uncut (Laughing Gravy is on twice, one is extended and has the original ending - a rather grimmer ending at that!).