Image Unavailable
Color:
-
-
-
- Sorry, this item is not available in
- Image not available
- To view this video download Flash Player
Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection
Additional DVD options | Edition | Discs | Price | New from | Used from |
DVD
May 4, 2021 "Please retry" | — | 10 |
—
| $43.45 | $26.25 |
Genre | Comedy/Classic Comedies |
Format | Multiple Formats, Box set, Black & White, NTSC, Dolby, Full Screen |
Contributor | Noel Madison, Mitchell Lewis, James W. Horne, Al Cooke, Paul Foltz, Charita, Lew Gould, Sidney Toler, Del Henderson, Charles Regan, Virginia Blair, James Blount, Walter Woolf King, Hope Harper, Etherine Landucci, Countess Sonia, Donald Dillaway, Montague Shaw, Wally O'Connor, Jack Gamble, Patsy Moran, Lorraine Bridges, Max Hoffman, Eddy Chandler, Conrad Seidemann, Agostino Borgato, Pat Lane, Joe Studer, Winter Hall, Charlie Teske, June Marlowe, Rychard Cramer, Paulette Goddard, Bob O'Connor, Harvey Karels, Viola Wilkins, Harry Anderson, Harry Bernard, Mary Brooks, Harry Bowen, O. M. Steiger, Laurel & Hardy, Vera White, Jerry Lewis, Eric Blore, Ethel Gilstrom, Dick Van Dyke, Marion Shelton, Bobby Dunn, Marylin Peterson, Tommy Bond, Ben Turpin, Dave Wengren, Lee Phelps, John G. Blystone, Johnny Woods, James Morton, Anita Garvin, Kate Melkus, Lester Shafer, Iris Adrian, Barbara Booth, May Cloy, Joe Bordeaux, Jack Hill, Carl Faulkner, Ruth Royde, Walter Long, Peter Cushing, George Granlich, William A. Seiter, Vinegar Roan, Harry Arras, Max Etzkorn, Evelyn Eager, Oliver Hardy, Charles Judels, Nancy McMahon, Stanley Blystone, Dick Cramer, Kenny Williams, William H. Royle, Bob McKenzie, Wilda George, Sam Lufkin, John Powers, Pat Gleason, Jacqueline Wells, Harry Neilman, Robert Wilber, Jack Perrin, Nik Sommer, Harry Myers, Louis Studer, Wilma Roelof, Zeffie Tilbury, Michael Arshasky, Emmet Connors, Grady Sutton, Elisabeth Frohlich, Raymond McCarey, E. H. Calvert, Dorothy Christy, Lucille Day, Stella Curtis, Tim Conway, Charles Middleton, Lola Field, John Hobart, Boots Mallory, Joe Lenz, Alan Hale, Lucien Littlefield, Harold Gerard, Jacquie Lynn, Charles Stone, Diane Rochelle, Alex Melesh, Ed Scarpa, Ruth Alder, Anna Ross, Daphne Pollard, Antoinette Lees, Mae Busch, Arthur Housman, Lew Leroy, Stan Laurel, Eddie Conrad, Walter Taylor, Muriel Evans, Ruth Warren, Ann Berry, Forbes Murray, Nick Copeland, John Stanley, Harry Woods, Ivar McFadden, Esther Pressman, Jack Staegell, Marie Dolezel, Peggy Russell, Joe Whitehead, Patricia Ellis, Jackie Horner, James Finlayson, Carl Cosisky, Mary Carr, Allen Pomeroy, Antonio Moreno, Jack Lloyd, Margaret Mann, Hal Roach, Thelma Todd, Yogi, the Myna talking bird, Chet Brandenberg, Bob Lafferty, Ted Henderson, George Magrill, Edgar Norton, Jack Romler, James Parrott, Paul Feiner, Gordon Douglas, Howard C. Hickman, Victor Kendall, Kay McCoy, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Al Thompson, Ed Brandenberg, Marguerite Franz, Harry Lachman, Pete Gordon, Gerald Rogers, Ula Love, Richard Tucker, Fifi O'Brien, Ernie Alexander, Constantine Romanoff, Tommy Seidel, Marie Barbe, Loie Tilton, Doris Carlyle, Byron Munson, Ludovico Tomarchio, Eleanor Peterson, Gene Morgan, Charley Chase, Henry Hall, Franz Hug, Peter Gardiner, Tiny Sandford, Leo Willis, Carolyne Melkus, Jean de Briac, Fritz Wolfesberger, Adele Watson, Eddie Borden, Francesca Santoro, Jack Green, Captain Garcia, Jacques Vanaire, Forrester Harvey, Ralf Harolde, George Marshall, Pat McKay, Charles Hall, Carlton Griffin, Harry Hayden, Robert Eason, Earl Eby, George Jimenez, Sam Brooks, William P. Carleton, Harry Wilson, Alf Goulding, Harry Semels, Edward Earle, Les Clark, Sanna Caru, Della Lind, Bill Brady, Alex Finlayson, Fred Somers, George Chandler, Tom Kennedy, Charles Rogers, Jolane Reynolds, Darla Hood, Minna Gombell, Harry Strang, Frank Brownlee, Edward Cutler, Ed Brady, Lois Laurel, Stanley J. Sandford, Harry Tenbrook, Eddie Johnson, Lucille Stafford, Billy Gilbert, Jack Davidson, James C. Morton, Art Miles, Dinah, a mule, Chuck Callahan, Charles Gemora, Jimmie Dime, Billy Taft, Virginia Dabney, Dix Davis, Jean Alden, Tudor Williams, James B. Carson, Tom Murray, Ray DeRavenne, Baldwin Cooke, Gerald Fielding, Felix Knight, Mike Behegan, George Sorel, Otto Jehle, Earl Douglas, Doodles Weaver, Walter Lawrence, Eddie Kane, Celia Derosa, Bud Geary, Blanca Vischer, John Kelly, Patsy O'Byrne, Wilfred Lucas, Ruth Lane, Jim Pierce, Ed Shaeffer, Jack Lubell, Frank Baker, Allen Wood, Lona Andre, Jack Mack, Jack Koontz, Adia Kuznetzoff, Harry Evans, Buck, Mike Drey, Dolly Verner, Jack Raymond, Betty Healy, Arnold Tamon, Julia Kingsley, Ann Faruks, C. A. Bachman, Eddie Brian, Holly Hall, Jean Cleveland, Beverly Royde, Mary Gordon, Marjorie Kane, Lou Duello, Baldwin Cook See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 10 |
Similar items that may deliver to you quickly
- The Three Stooges: The Complete DVD CollectionSamuel HorwitzDVDFREE Shipping by AmazonGet it as soon as Sunday, Mar 31
- Abbott & Costello: Universal Pictures CollectionBud AbbottDVDFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Sunday, Mar 31
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters Collection [DVD]Bud AbbottDVDFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Sunday, Mar 31
- The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection (Centennial Edition)Darla HoodDVDFREE Shipping by AmazonGet it as soon as Sunday, Mar 31
- I Love Lucy: The Complete SeriesLucille BallDVDFREE Shipping by AmazonGet it as soon as Sunday, Mar 31
- The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends: The Complete Series [DVD]Jay WardDVD57% offLimited time dealFREE Shipping on orders over $35 shipped by AmazonGet it as soon as Sunday, Mar 31
Product Description
Product Description
Laurel & Hardy were one of the most critically acclaimed comedy teams of early American cinema. Their films produced by Hal Roach during the 20s and 30s defined their legacy, and are now available for the first time in a one comprehensive 10-DISC COLLECTION! This set contains films from Hal Roach library such as The Music Box (Academy Award Best Short Subject), Brats, Hog Wild, Chickens Come Home, Sons of the Desert and Way out West to name a few. A special bonus disc features entertaining never before seen interviews from Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Lewis and Tim Conway, insightful commentaries, additional films and original trailers.
Amazon.com
"Eternal pals and eternal antagonists, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the great partnership of movie slapstick. They finally get their DVD due with Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection, a 10-disc orgy of pratfalls, slow burns, and slap fights--in short, a collection that truly qualifies as a must-have for connoisseurs of comedy. The collection contains the sound films that Laurel and Hardy made for producer Hal Roach, the man who teamed the simpering English vaudeville player and the rotund American actor in the first place (although their laughs are evenly divided, Laurel was the creative force and chief gag-inventor of the duo). Their track record is proof that it isn't merely the jokes that make for comic success; it's the personalities of the comedians. Thus, Stan's dimwitted innocence and Ollie's perpetually exasperated reactions (raised to an exquisite art by Hardy's comprehensive glances at the camera, assuring the audience's complicity in his misery) are the essence of their success. Some films are great, some merely passable, but all stick blissfully to character. This is on glorious display through these Roach pictures, whether it's the boys sharing one small train berth in Berth Marks, executing their famous synchronized dance in Way Out West, or laboring to get that piano up a very steep flight of stairs in the Oscar-winning The Music Box.
The films look as good as movies from 1929 to 1940 can reasonably be expected to look. Included in the boxed set are seven foreign-language films (six in Spanish, one in French), shot in order to keep the duo popular in overseas markets, before dubbing made that goal easier. Fascinatingly, these films often extend the English-language films they are ostensibly adapted from, with different gags and plot turns--and it's fun to hear Stan and Ollie speaking in another language. Special features include a ho-hum 40-minute tribute with testimonials from fellow comedians (especially talkative are Dick Van Dyke and Jerry Lewis); an ""Interactive Map"" with Los Angeles location sites from their movies; three Roach shorts in which L&H pop up in cameos; and a 1942 short produced for the Department of Agriculture (another L&H cameo). A few (not many) films have commentaries that include the informed Laurel and Hardy buff Richard W. Bann; Sons of the Desert has a track with Tim Conway and Chuck McCann, who don't seem to know how a commentary track works but have a nice time watching the movie. --Robert Horton"
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
- Audio Description: : English
- Item model number : 883476060217
- Director : John G. Blystone, William A. Seiter, James Parrott, James W. Horne, Gordon Douglas
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Box set, Black & White, NTSC, Dolby, Full Screen
- Run time : 32 hours and 21 minutes
- Release date : October 25, 2011
- Actors : Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Tim Conway, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : RHI Entertainment
- ASIN : B005BYBZKY
- Number of discs : 10
- Best Sellers Rank: #61,769 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #41,503 in DVD
- Customer Reviews:
Videos
Videos for this product
1:20
Click to play video
Laurel & Hardy Trailer
Merchant Video
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on AmazonReviews with images
-
Top reviews
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
This 10-disc set includes most of Laurel & Hardy's talkie shorts and features produced by Hal Roach between 1929 and 1940. These are among the funniest comedies ever made, as many vintage-film buffs will agree. Laurel & Hardy were often capable of carrying the action almost entirely by themselves: BRATS has Stan and Ollie as themselves and their own sons (with giant sets and trick photography); THE MUSIC BOX is the Oscar-winning featurette with the boys as the world's worst piano movers; HELPMATES has Stan helping Ollie to clean house after a wild party; THEIR FIRST MISTAKE has our heroes adopting a baby; TOWED IN A HOLE has them rehabbing a boat; BUSY BODIES turns them loose in a carpentry shop. You'll see dozens of examples of how inventive they were with pantomime and dialogue. Their short subjects were so successful that they branched out into full-length features, including their famous hits WAY OUT WEST and SONS OF THE DESERT, the prison comedy PARDON US, the "gypsy" comedy THE BOHEMIAN GIRL, the hour-of-sight-gags BLOCK-HEADS and SAPS AT SEA, and several others, including both versions of A CHUMP AT OXFORD (the standard 63-minute print of 1940, and the 42-minute, differently edited "streamliner" released in 1943). The supporting casts read like a who's-who of familiar faces: Edgar Kennedy, Billy Gilbert, Charlie Hall, James Finlayson, Mae Busch, Anita Garvin, Walter Long, Harry Bernard, Eddie Dunn, Daphne Pollard, and a host of others. You'll be laughing through 58 L & H comedies.
The wonderful news about this set is that the DVDs are presented in high definition, from the original surviving 35mm film elements. They are NOT taken from RHI's tape transfers that aired on AMC in the 1990s, or the broadcast masters prepared in 1986 for TV's "Laurel & Hardy Show" (some of which are still playing on TCM, and often in shortened form). The DVD producers went back to the source materials, meaning that the vintage Laurel & Hardy comedies have never looked or sounded better on video. The DVD producers have taken some pains with the restoration: picture and sound have been cleaned up digitally; most of the subjects feature the attractive, seldom-seen original titles; and even individual shots cut short in current prints have been restored to their original lengths.
In the early days of sound films, before the advent of voice dubbing, some American producers made international versions of their films, with the actors speaking each foreign language phonetically. Laurel & Hardy made several of these multilingual versions, and seven of them are included in this set. These versions offer some surprises, with many of the "American" gags extended, and even some entirely new scenes unique to the continental prints.
This set differs from the European 21-disc set in that the silent films and the colorized TV editions have been omitted, which cuts the disc space down to a manageable and economical 10 discs. The total running time averages out to a little over three hours per disc, perhaps not the ideal compression rate but about par for the "double-feature" DVDs on the market today.
The set also includes some two hours of bonus features, of special interest to Laurel & Hardy admirers. THE TREE IN A TEST TUBE is gorgeous, in excellent color, and appears to be a first-generation video copy from the U. S. Government source (except for the main title, the source print appears to be uncirculated). The team makes cameo appearances in ON THE LOOSE, ON THE WRONG TREK, and WILD POSES, and all three shorts are included in their entirety.
Print quality on the titles I've seen is superior to any previous video release. For a sample, I went straight to the traditionally battered and bruised titles to check the quality. COME CLEAN, which is usually seen in murky, contrasty prints, is here in much-improved condition, from 35mm with the original main titles. PARDON US, the boys' first feature, is the longer, pre-release preview print, with original main titles and in much better shape than usual (the song "Lazy Moon" has none of the patchwork repairs we're used to seeing). THEIR FIRST MISTAKE is seen at last with the full, original title sequence intact. HOG WILD has usually been seen in slightly soft focus; the video version is an improvement. Keep in mind that some of these 58 comedies won't look like they were photographed yesterday because the negatives have been consulted far more often than is customary. Theatrical reissues, TV revivals, and home-movie reprints have caused the 35mm materials to be run through printing machines again and again over the years, with wear and tear showing in the copies. It is a tribute to the DVD producers that they found and used superior archival materials for this set, and many of the "shopworn" subjects have been upgraded.
Collectors will appreciate many new versions of old favorites. PERFECT DAY is seen in its familiar 1936 form, and (surprise!) in its original 1929 form without the music track. BRATS is also seen with alternate music tracks (but curiously, the "1930" version has vintage-1937 reissue titles, even though the original titles are known to exist). PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES is the longer, original-release print; it includes some unpleasant domestic-abuse scenes that were removed for reissue, but it also includes a longer version of the "Three Bears" bedtime-story sequence.
Bottom line: this long-awaited release is the best boxed set of comedies offered in years. Ideal for family viewing, and these timeless classics can be enjoyed over and over again. Laurel & Hardy are true masters, and you won't be disappointed.
UPDATE: Here's a list of the actual content, as reported by Lou Lumenick for the New York Post:
DISC 1:
UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE 1929
BERTH MARKS 1929
MEN O' WAR 1929
PERFECT DAY 1929 [original 1929 track]
PERFECT DAY 1936 [reissue with musical score]
THEY GO BOOM 1929
THE HOOSE-GOW 1929
NIGHT OWLS 1930
LADRONES (Night Owls, Spanish) 1930
BLOTTO 1930
DISC 2:
LA VIDA NOCTURNA (Blotto, Spanish) 1930
BRATS 1937 [reissue, new LeRoy Shield musical score]
BRATS 1930 [original score of stock jazz-band records]
BELOW ZERO 1930
TIEMBLA Y TITUBEA (Below Zero, Spanish) 1930
HOG WILD 1930
THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE 1930
NOCHE DE DUENDES (The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case & Berth Marks, Spanish) 1930
ANOTHER FINE MESS 1930
DISC 3:
BE BIG! 1931
CHICKENS COME HOME 1931
POLITIQUERIAS (Chickens Come Home, Spanish) 1931
LAUGHING GRAVY 1931
LES CAROTTIERS (Feature: Be Big! & Laughing Gravy, French) 1931
DISC 4:
LOS CALAVERAS (Feature: Be Big! & Laughing Gravy, Spanish) 1931
OUR WIFE 1931
PARDON US (Feature, extended version) 1931
COME CLEAN 1931
ONE GOOD TURN 1931
BEAU HUNKS 1931
DISC 5:
HELPMATES 1932
ANY OLD PORT 1932
THE MUSIC BOX 1932
THE CHIMP 1932
COUNTY HOSPITAL 1932
SCRAM! 1932
PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES (Feature) 1932
THEIR FIRST MISTAKE 1932
DISC 6:
TOWED IN A HOLE 1933
TWICE TWO 1933
ME AND MY PAL 1933
THE MIDNIGHT PATROL 1933
BUSY BODIES 1933
DIRTY WORK 1933
SONS OF THE DESERT (Feature) 1933
OLIVER THE EIGHTH 1934
GOING BYE-BYE! 1934
DISC 7:
THEM THAR HILLS 1934
THE LIVE GHOST 1934
TIT FOR TAT 1935
THE FIXER UPPERS 1935
THICKER THAN WATER 1935
THE BOHEMIAN GIRL (Feature) 1936
DISC 8:
OUR RELATIONS (Feature) 1936
WAY OUT WEST (Feature) 1937
SWISS MISS (Feature) 1938
DISC 9:
BLOCK-HEADS (Feature) 1938
A CHUMP AT OXFORD (42 min.) 1940
A CHUMP AT OXFORD (Feature, 63 min.) 1940
SAPS AT SEA (Feature) 1940
DISC 10:
SPECIAL FEATURES
A Tribute to Laurel & Hardy
On Location with the Boys: tour of set locations and interactive map
Laurel & Hardy Guest Appearances
Laurel & Hardy Trailers
Top reviews from other countries
Reviewed in Italy on December 31, 2019