Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations [Blu-ray] [2020] [NTSC]

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As a Laurel and Hardy fan I was very honored and blessed in being friends with Ida Laurel until she passed. If much of this seems to be less about the specifics of this set itself versus the virtues of the title performers, well you’re right. There is usually a good percentage of extra screen visible and rather than the image moving around and being unsteady.

Each touch on Laurel’s kindness, his ghost-directing nearly every film he appeared in with Hardy, and the joys of working on the Hal Roach lot. There were always explosive bouts of violence and chaos, but they were always tempered with a sweet disposition and warmth that was always both expected and a complete surprise.com/2019/05/07/thats-that-a-curiosity/, which includes a link to the UCLA Film and Television Archive version on YouTube. In Battle of the Century, a pie fight starts in the streets after Stanley hops in and out of the boxing ring.

Depending on your bank/credit card company, it may take up to two weeks after your credit is processed for it to post to your account. Very few original negatives of the silent films of Laurel and Hardy survive, and the available elements scattered throughout the world are always mediocre or unwatchable. Deadend45 True, but Flicker Alley has shown they have better standards than most of the companies who released Laurel and Hardy content to Blu-Ray so far. 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!The Tree in a Test Tube, the lone color film in this collection, is taken from a print loaded with grain and crushed blacks.

They beat Seinfeld to the punch on extracting humor from the mundane and should have copyrighted the act of stretching a gag far beyond its normal breaking point before Seth MacFarlane ever got his meaty, animated paws on it and ruined it. Zavvi presents the classic comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy, bringing you all the best content from an expansive assortment of iconic moments in the pair’s long and successful history. As I got older, I began to seek out their feature-length movies, but found that, at least to me, the team worked best in the two-reel shorts (of which they made nearly 100 of), with The Music Box being their masterpiece, a simple story of two men hired to deliver a piano up a long flight of stairs in which nothing goes as planned. Of course, this only scratches the surface when it comes to Laurel and Hardy’s output, but it’s a fine primer, containing some of their best work. The Battle of the Century-Die Schlacht des Jahrhunderts", liegt hier nach fast 90 Jahren, wieder fast komplett vor.Updated daily and in real-time, we track all high-def disc news and release dates, and review the latest disc titles. They all have their fair share of hiss, some more than others, but there are no instances of crackle or dropouts.

With Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous bully Hardy, the misadventures of the most recognizable comedy double act, whose charm and on screen chemistry set a new standard, are perfectly captured here in high definition for the first time. I became convinced that, as I slept, they’d creep an inch or two closer to my bed each time I woke up in the night (hey, I was a dumb kid and I guarantee you that your dumb kids are thinking something equally dumb right now – I know mine is). I’ve had several requests for my source in the USA so here is the link for the Blu-ray: https://www.A very simple story – Ollie wakes up after a crazy night of debauchery only to find out that his wife will be home in a few hours. I did however notice a hair in the titles frame for The Music Box, but I point that out purely to prove I noticed it (!