Air Raid Wardens 1943  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Donald Meek, Stephen McNally, Henry O'Neill, Philip Van Zandt, Nella Walker, Rose Hobart
This movie, filmed during World War II, features Laurel and Hardy as military rejects who become Civil Defense workers and uncover a Nazi plot to gain control of a magnesium company.
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Atoll K 1951  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Utopia
Robinson Crusoeland
Director: Leo Joannon
Cast: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Suzy Delair, Max Elloy, Adriano Rimoldi, Paul Frees, Luigi Tosi, Alec Dalmatoff, Suzet Mais, Roger Legris, Vittorio Caproioli, Lucien Callamand, Robert Vattier, Robert Murzeau
When their yacht runs aground during a storm, Stan and Oliver (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy) are stranded on an atoll with their cook Giovanni Copini (Adriano Rimoldi) and stowaway Antoine (Max Elloy). They are soon joined by a nightclub singer Cherie Lamour (Suzy Delair) who has run away from her domineering fiance. They form their own republic, and life is good–until they discover Uranium on the atoll, word gets out, and the world powers fight for control. This marks Laurel and Hardy's final feature film.
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 Babes in Toyland 1934  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Musical
aka: March of the Wooden Soldiers
Director: Gus Meins, Charley Rogers
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlotte Henry, Felix Knight, Henry Brandon, Florence Roberts, Ferdinand Munier, Virginia Karns, William Burress, Johnny Downs, Marie Wilson, Richard Alexander, Ellen Corby, Jack Hill, Alice Dahl
This very amusing film of Victor Herbert's "Mother Goose" operetta features Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) as apprentice toymakers coming to the aid of Little Bo-Peep (Charlotte Henry). The evil Silas Barnaby (Henry Brandon) is threatening to force Bo-Peep into marrying him if she does not pay her rent. The wedding does occur, but it is Stannie, disguised as Bo-Peep, who marches down the aisle. Barnaby is humiliated and steals one of the Three Little Pigs making it look as if Bo-Peep's boyfriend Tom-Tom Piper (Felix Knight) did the dirty deed. When Stannie and Ollie step in and expose the plot, Barnaby attacks Toyland. But, never fear, the wooden soldiers come to the rescue and save Toyland.
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The Big Noise 1944  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Philip Van Zandt, Francis Ford, Veda Ann Borg, Robert Blake, Frank Fenton, James Bush, Selmer Jackson, Harry Hayden
While delivering a new weapon to Washington, D.C., Laurel and Hardy fend off a gang of thieves in their own inimitable manner. Probably their worst film.
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The Big Parade of Comedy 1969 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Stan Laurel, Lucille Ball, Marie Dressler, Carole Lombard, Lionel Barrymore, Marion Davies, Spencer Tracy, Oliver Hardy
Scenes from comedies are presented in this video made up from great moments in both silent and sound film.
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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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The Bullfighters 1945 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Margo Woode, Richard Lane, Carol Andrews, Diosa Costello, Rory Calhoun, Edward Gargan, Jay Novello, Hank Worden
In their final American feature film (one French movie was made in 1950), Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play detectives in Mexico City. Laurel resembles a famous matador and finds himself substituting for the matador in the bullring.
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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 Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy 1967 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Garry Moore
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Garry Moore
Scenes from past Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy films are presented in this very-watchable film. Hal Roach produced the film and Garry Moore narrates.
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The Dancing Masters 1943 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Trudy Marshall, Bob Bailey, Margaret Dumont, Robert Mitchum, Matt Briggs, Nestor Paiva, Arthur Space, Edward Earle
While failing at operating their dancing school, Laurel and Hardy help a young inventor and end up stuck on a driverless bus while dealing with a gang of hoods.
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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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The Fighting Kentuckian 1949 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
Director: George Waggner
Cast: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Oliver Hardy, Marie Windsor, John Howard, Hugo Haas, Grant Withers, Paul Fix, Odette Myrtil
Following the War of 1812, two frontiersmen (John Wayne and Oliver Hardy), help French refugees in Alabama who are in danger of being tricked out of their land.
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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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The Golden Age of Comedy 1957 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Youngson
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Ben Turpin, Carole Lombard, Will Rogers, Harry Langdon, Jean Harlow, Keystone Cops, Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Murray, Harry Gribbon
Producer/Director Robert Youngson presents some of the greatest moments in silent comedy. Highlights include the physical comedy of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, young starlets Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard, and the versatility of Ben Turpin. The film provides good moments in viewing pleasure.
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Great Guns 1941 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Monty Banks
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan, Dick Nelson, Charles Trowbridge, Paul Harvey, Alan Ladd, Edmund MacDonald, Mae Marsh, Ethel Griffies, Pierre Watkin, Charles Arnt
As army recruits serving under a strict drill sergeant, Laurel and Hardy provide laughs for their ineptitude as cavalrymen. Far from their best effort.
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Hollywood Party 1934 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charles Butterworth, Polly Moran, Robert Young, Lupe Velez, Three Stooges, Tom Kennedy, George Givot
Jimmy Schnarzan (Jimmy Durante) throws a party to get people interested in his failing jungle series. The result is splashy musical numbers and appearances by comedians of the day.
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 Jitterbugs 1943 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivian Blaine, Bob Bailey, Douglas Fowley, Noel Madison, Lee Patrick, Robert Emmett Keane, Francis Ford, Charles Halton
When Susan Cowan (Vivian Blaine) is cheated out of her family estate, Laurel and Hardy pretend to be a socialite and a Southern Colonel to help retrieve Susan's inheritance.
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 Nothing But Trouble 1944 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sam Taylor
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Boland, Philip Merivale, Henry O'Neill, Paul Porcasi, Matthew Boulton, Ray Teal, Eddie Dunn, Connie Gilchrist
When a young prince (Philip Merivale) visits the home of their socialite employer (Mary Boland), Laurel and Hardy use their positions as cook and butler to rescue the regent from an assassination attempt.
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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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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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Sons of the Desert 1933 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch, Dorothy Christy, Lucien Littlefield, John Elliott, Robert Cummings, Charlita, Bob Burns
This is one of the funniest of the Laurel and Hardy films as they play husbands who invent many alibis to their wives so they can attend their lodge convention.
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Swiss Miss 1938 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John G. Blystone
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler, Walter Woolf King, George Sorel, Eric Blore, Adia Kuznetzoff, Charles Judels, Ludovico Tomarchio, Jean De Briac
Laurel and Hardy portray a pair of salesmen who head to the Alps to sell mousetraps. Their premise is that since cheese is being made there, rodents must not be far behind!
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Three Ages 1923 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast: Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Joe(2) Roberts, Lillian Lawrence, Blanche Payson, Kewpie Morgan, Lionel Belmore, Oliver Hardy, Louise Emmons
The great comic Buster Keaton provides three comedic love stories–one each in the Stone Age, Roman Empire, and the 1920s. In all three, the roles of the boy (Keaton) , the girl (Margaret Leahy), and the villain (Wallace Beery) (who also is after the girl) are played by the same actors. A good silent film.
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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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 The Wizard of Oz 1925 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Larry Semon
Cast: Dorothy Dwan, Larry Semon, Oliver Hardy, Bryant Washburn, Virginia Pearson, Charles Murray, Mary Carr, Josef Swickard, Frank Alexander, Otto Lederer
Slapstick comedy–including Oliver Hardy playing the role of the Tin Woodsman–prevails in this silent version of L. Frank Baum's classic tale.
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Zenobia 1939 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Oliver Hardy, Billie Burke, Stepin Fetchit, Harry Langdon, Alice Brady, James Ellison, Hattie McDaniel, June Lang, Olin Howland, J. Farrell MacDonald
Oliver Hardy–without Stan Laurel–stars in this film about a doctor who treats an ailing elephant. Following its recovery, the elephant will not forget the man who saved him, and the poor doctor finds that the elephant has become his shadow.
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| 1. 4 Clowns (1970)
2. A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
3. Air Raid Wardens (1943)
4. Atoll K (1951)
aka: Utopia
aka: Robinson Crusoeland
5. Babes in Toyland (1934)
aka: March of the Wooden Soldiers
6. Big Business (1929)
7. The Big Noise (1944)
8. The Big Parade of Comedy (1969)
9. Block-Heads (1938)
10. The Bohemian Girl (1936)
11. Bonnie Scotland (1935)
12. The Bullfighters (1945)
13. A Chump at Oxford (1940)
14. The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy (1967)
15. The Dancing Masters (1943)
16. The Devil's Brother (1933)
aka: Bogus Bandits
aka: Fra Diavolo
aka: The Virtuous Tramps
17. The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
18. The Flying Deuces (1939)
19. The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
20. Great Guns (1941)
21. Hollywood Party (1934)
22. Jitterbugs (1943)
23. Laurel & Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965)
24. Nothing But Trouble (1944)
25. Our Relations (1936)
26. Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
27. Pardon Us (1931)
28. Riding High (1943)
29. Saps at Sea (1940)
30. Sons of the Desert (1933)
31. Swiss Miss (1938)
32. Three Ages (1923)
33. Way Out West (1937)
34. The Wizard of Oz (1925)
35. Zenobia (1939)
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