 Angel 1937  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton, Ernest Cossart, Laura Hope Crews, Herbert Mundin, Ivan Lebedeff, Dennie Moore, Lionel Pape, Gino Corrado, Michael Visaroff, Eric Wilton, Olaf Hytten, James Finlayson
Bored Maria (Marlene Dietrich) feels trapped in a loveless marriage with a British nobleman (Herbert Marshall). So off she goes to Paris for a vacation and falls in love with an American (Melvyn Douglas). Despite the fine cast, this is far from Lubitsch's or Dietrich's best.
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Block-Heads 1938  N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John G. Blystone
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell, James Finlayson, Billy Gilbert, William Royle, Zeffie Tilbury, Huntz Hall, Harry Strang
World War I had ended years ago, but Stan Laurel was still sitting it out on the Western Front until Oliver Hardy found him and–mistakenly believing Laurel unable to walk as the result of war injuries–takes him home where the fun really begins.
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 The Bohemian Girl 1936 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James W. Horne
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Antonio Moreno, Julie Bishop, Darla Hood, Mae Busch, James Finlayson, Thelma Todd, Zeffie Tilbury, James C. Morton
Laurel and Hardy play 18th-century Gypsies who kidnap Princess Arline (Darla Hood) and teach her the tricks of their pickpocketing trade.
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Bonnie Scotland 1935  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James W. Horne
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anne Grey, David Torrence, June Lang, William Janney, James Finlayson, Vernon Steele, James T. Mack, Mary Gordon, Maurice Black, Daphne Pollard, Lionel Belmore
Stan MacLaurel (Stan Laurel) and Oliver Hardy (Oliver Hardy) stow away on a cattle boat headed for Scotland so that Stan can claim his share of an inheritance left by his uncle. Stan's inheritance amounts only to a set of bagpipes and a snuff box. Penniless, Stan and Oliver make a wrong move and end up enlisted in the British Army on their way to India. All ends well when they put an end to a native uprising–but not without the help of a number of overturned bee hives.
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A Chump at Oxford 1940 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred Goulding
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Forrester Harvey, Wilfred Lucas, Forbes Murray, Frank(1) Baker, Eddie Borden, Peter Cushing, James Finlayson
As a reward for heroic action during a bank robbery, Laurel and Hardy are granted entrance into Oxford University.
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 The Dawn Patrol 1930 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Flight Commander
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Neil Hamilton, William Janney, James Finlayson, Clyde Cook, Edmund Breon, Frank McHugh
British World War I aviators are enthralled with the romance of their missions. However, as talk turns into reality, the danger loses its romantic quality. In Director Howard Hawks' first talkie, he presents some dramatic aerial scenes. John Monk Saunders won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Story).
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The Devil's Brother 1933 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Bogus Bandits
Fra Diavolo
The Virtuous Tramps
Director: Hal Roach
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd, James Finlayson, Lucile Browne, Arthur Pierson, Henry Armetta, Lane Chandler, Matt McHugh
Looking for potential victims, a thief (Dennis King) pretends to be a marquis in order to get closer to the action. Laurel and Hardy play his inept assistants in this comedy/operetta.
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Down Memory Lane 1949 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Steve Allen, Donald Novis, Gloria Swanson, Ben Turpin, Franklin Pangborn, Irving Bacon, James Finlayson, Mack Sennett
Steve Allen introduces classic Mack Sennett comedies and presents film clips from the sound through silent eras.
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Feet First 1930 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Clyde Bruckman
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Robert McWade, Lillian Leighton, Barbara Kent, Alec B. Francis, Noah Young, Henry Hall, Arthur Housman, Willie Best, Noah Beery, Buster Phelps, Leo Willis, James Finlayson
While on a cruise to Honolulu, shoe salesman Harold Horne (Harold Lloyd) falls in love with heiress Barbara Carson (Barbara Kent) who believes that Harold is a millionaire. While trying to hide the deceit, Harold becomes tied up in a mail sack and lands on a builder's hoist near a skyscraper. Now, he must find a way to climb down the building–and the acrobatic fun begins.
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The Flying Deuces 1939 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Charles Middleton, Jean Del Val, Crane Whitley, James Finlayson, Richard Cramer, Michael Visaroff, Billy Engle, Sam Lufkin
After Ollie (Oliver Hardy) has been rejected by his lady love Georgette (Jean Parker) because she is already married to Francois (Reginald Gardiner), he and Stan (Stan Laurel) join the Foreign Legion to help Ollie forget his troubles. But, their ineptness leads to them being charged with desertion. They escape in a stolen airplane that crashes.
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Grand Canyon Trail 1948 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Western
Director: William Witney
Cast: Roy Rogers, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Robert Livingston, Roy Barcroft, Emmett Lynn, James Finlayson, Charles Coleman, Ken Terrell, Foy Willing, Tommy Coats, Zon Murray
Thanks to hayseed "Cookie" Bullfincher (Andy Devine), Roy Rogers and friends have invested in a silver mine, and now they are being told that the mine is worthless. Meanwhile, crooked mining engineer Bill Regan (Robert Livingston) suspects that there is silver in the mine and is determined to get the silver for himself. Will the bad guys win out? Not with Roy around!
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Pack Up Your Troubles 1932 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway, Jacquie Lyn, Grady Sutton, Tom Kennedy, Paulette Goddard, Billy Gilbert, C. Montague Shaw, James Finlayson
Laurel and Hardy are inept soldiers, involved in espionage, who look for a certain Mr. and Mrs. Smith using no other clues than the telephone book. Look for Paulette Goddard in a bit part.
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Pardon Us 1931 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Parrott
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilfred Lucas, Walter Long, James Finlayson, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin, Boris Karloff, Hal Roach, Eddie Dunn
In Laurel and Hardy's first full-length feature film, they become "bootleggers" when they sell their home-brewed beer. As a result, they end up in jail.
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The Perils of Pauline 1947 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest, Constance Collier, Frank Faylen, William Farnum, James Finlayson, Creighton Hale, Chester Conklin
Silent-film star Pearl White underwent many perilous moments in her films; Betty Hutton takes on the role of the former star in this slapstick biography.
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Royal Wedding 1951 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill, Keenan Wynn, Albert Sharpe, James Finlayson, Mae Clarke, Henri Letondal, Alex Frazer
Fred Astaire performs his famous dance on the ceiling in this film about brother/sister stars–Tom (Fred Astaire) and Ellen Bowen (Jane Powell)–who perform in London during the exciting time of Queen Elizabeth's wedding and become involved in romances of their own.
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Saps at Sea 1940 N/R, 57 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, Ben Turpin, Richard Cramer, Eddie Conrad, Harry Hayden, Mary Gordon, Sam Lufkin, Charlie Hall
Worn out from work, Ollie gets Stan to take a boat trip with him, and, from that point on, the fun really begins as their mishaps include a run-in with an escaped convict.
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She-Wolf of London 1946  N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Curse of the Allenbys
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden, Jan Wiley, Lloyd Corrigan, Dennis Hoey, Martin Kosleck, Eily Malyon, Frederick Worlock, James Finlayson
A series of grisly murders have the authorities baffled in early-1900s London. Phyllis Allenby (June Lockhart) is convinced that she is the perpetrator, since she is an ancestor of a family that had a werewolf curse. Her fiance (Don Porter) sets out to prove her innocence.
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 Way Out West 1937  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James W. Horne
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Sharon Lynn, Jim Mason, James C. Morton, Mary Gordon, Stanley Fields, Chill Wills, Sam Lufkin
Laurel and Hardy are at their best in this film about the perils of searching for gold in the West.
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| 1. All Over Town (1937)
2. Angel (1937)
3. Big Business (1929)
4. Block-Heads (1938)
5. The Bohemian Girl (1936)
6. Bonnie Scotland (1935)
7. A Chump at Oxford (1940)
8. The Dawn Patrol (1930)
aka: Flight Commander
9. The Devil's Brother (1933)
aka: Bogus Bandits
aka: Fra Diavolo
aka: The Virtuous Tramps
10. Down Memory Lane (1949)
11. Feet First (1930)
12. The Flying Deuces (1939)
13. Grand Canyon Trail (1948)
14. Laurel & Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965)
15. Our Relations (1936)
16. Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
17. Pardon Us (1931)
18. The Perils of Pauline (1947)
19. Royal Wedding (1951)
20. Saps at Sea (1940)
21. She-Wolf of London (1946)
aka: The Curse of the Allenbys
22. Way Out West (1937)
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