Sons of the desert: The boys sneak off to a convention, telling their wives that Ollie requires a restful cruise to Hawaii to recuperate but all is not peaceful when the suspicious wives discover the ship sank. The music box: the Laurel & Hardy Moving Company struggles to deliver a piano to a house with an insurmountable staircase. Winner of a 1932 Oscar for Best Comedy Short. Another fine mess: Stan and Ollie hide from the police in the seemingly...

Be big (1931): The boys duck out on a vacation with their wives in order to attend a stag party being held in their honor. The perfect day (1929): Stan and Ollie take their wives on a picnic and disaster ensues. Night owls (1930): In order to recover his reputation, a policeman hires Stan and Ollie to burgle the Police chief's home so he can arrest them and "fix" it later. Helpmates (1932): Oliver's house is in a shambles after a wild party, and...

New 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate, Laurel and Hardy's classic comedies are here in the best quality since their first release! Two features and 17 shorts, including the legendary pie-fight silent film "The battle of the century," making its video debut and nearly complete for the first time in over 90 years! Bonus extras: 2,500 rare photos, posters and studio files; commentaries by Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann; film...

Wrong again: The Boys confuse a lost painting with a plug horse. (MGM, 1929, 20 min.). Habeas corpus: A mad scientist hires The boys to steal a corpse from the graveyard. This is the first release of the incredible 1929 original sound-on-disc Vitaphone soundtrack. (MGM, 1929, 21 min.). Duck soup: The Boys hide out in a mansion and pretend to be the owner and his maid. Long thought lost until discovered in a Belgian archive in the 1980s. (Pathe',...

Double whoopee: All-time classic tale of two morons, a hotel, and an undressed babe. (MGM, 1929, 20 min.). Early to bed: Rare early L&H comedy--with no supporting cast, in which Babe becomes the idle rich. (MGM, 1928, 20 min.). Angora love: A touching love story--a goat falls in love with Stan. (MGM, 1929, 20 min.). Sugar daddies: Hysterical comedy with Stan in drag to elude a marriage racket. (MGM, 1927, 19 min.). Roughest Africa: Early Stan...

Two tars: Classic retribution comedy set in a rural Model-T traffic jam. (MGM, 1928, 22 min.). The second hundred years: The Boys are determined to escape from prison. (MGM, 1927, 23 min.). Slipping wives: Early short finds Stan playing a masher; Hardy the protective butler. (Pathe', 1927, 23 min.). From soup to nuts: Early triumph finds the Boys as servants. (MGM, 1928, 18 min.). Scorching sands: Early Laurel solo finds Stan spoofing desert adventure...

Liberty: Gem features Boys as jailbirds doing a high-wire act on a construction site. (MGM, 1929, 20 min.). We faw down: The Boys help two ladies in distress--and "The Wives" put them in distress when caught. (MGM, 1928, 21 min.). Bromo and Juliet: Charley gets stuck with the lead--and a snootfull--in a civic Shakespeare play. (Pathe', 1926, 24 min.). The lucky dog: Incredibly rare film. The Boys first screen appearance together. (Sun-Lite/Metro,...

Stanley and Oliver are mousetrap salesmen hoping to strike it rich in Switzerland, but get swindled out of all their money by a cheesemaker. While working off their hotel debt, Oliver falls in love with a chambermaid, Anna, who in reality is a famous opera singer spying on her composer husband, Victor, while he works on his new opera. The boys are assigned to move Victor's piano to a secluded tree house, but become trapped on a rickety rope bridge...

This volume is part of a 5-disc set that presents more than fifty silent short comedies with new musical soundtracks. Each includes a brief introduction written by film historian Joe Adamson.

Easy street (1916): Stars Charlie Chaplin as a vagrant who reforms and becomes a cop. Assigned to the worst slum in town, he conquers a brute three times his size. One week (1920): Buster Keaton assembles a prefabricated house for his bride during the first six days of their marriage. Unfortunately, the directions are sabatoged by her spurned suitor. Chasing choo-choos (1927): Heiress Virginia Craig is in love with Monty, a working man. The men...