Himself (voice)
The first religious film about Laurel and Hardy.
Thanks
Stan y Ollie, conocidos en castellano como "El gordo y el flaco", se embarcan en su gira de despedida ahora que su época dorada parece haber quedado anclada en el pasado. Con la ayuda de sus respectivas mujeres, Lucille e Ida, ambos logran conquistar al público de las salas de Reino Unido gracias a su peculiar manera de interpretar y de entender el mundo. Este biopic ahonda en la personalidad de ambos personajes y en las circunstancias personales que les convirtieron en figuras cómicas de leyenda.
Self (archive footage)
Documental que se adentra en las vidas del célebre dúo cómico conocido como El Gordo y el Flaco. A través de imágenes inéditas, el reportaje descubre la vidas de Stan Laurel y Oliver Hardy, cuya amistad se trasladó fuera de la pantalla y se mantuvo hasta la muerte.
Self (archive footage)
Documentary about Laurel & Hardy
Himself (archive footage)
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Schauspieler
Self (archive footage)
The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
Oliver
Experience Stan and Ollie in their funniest scenes: whether they build a house as construction workers or try to impress two young ladies as sailors. Watch as Stan fights a superior opponent in the boxing ring and as Ollie is taking an involuntary bath and see where a steadfast friendship between two men can get you...
Ollie
Ollie
Self (archive footage)
A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.
(archive footage)
El tercer documental de la trilogía en el que se pueden ver interesantes tomas falsas protagonizadas por Judy Garland o Lena Horne. Anteriores estrellas musicales de la MGM como Gene Kelly presentan los números musicales.
Ollie / Fanny / Bert (archive footage)
Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
(archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works of Laurel & Hardy, into an original framework action
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Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
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Segunda parte de "Érase una vez en Hollywood". A diferencia del primer documental, sólo hay dos narradores: Gene Kelly y Fred Astaire. Incluye escenas de comedias y dramas en los que intervienen los hermanos Marx, Laurel y Hardy o Katharine Hepburn.
Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Himself (archive footage)
Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. It features interviews with Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Babe London, Marcel Marceau, Lucille Hardy (Ollie's wife), Bob Monkhouse, Hal Roach, Marvin T Hatley, Jack McCabe and many more.
(archive footage)
Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown battling a gum machine, and Hardy is a debaucherous Romeo whose amorous plans are thwarted by Rex, the Wonder Horse. Charley Chase is hampered by hiccups and a female professor, and he fleeces a drunken Oliver Hardy with a mannequin in a nightclub. The third part finds bachelor Buster Keaton desperately trying to get married by 7:00 PM in order to collect a $7-million-dollar inheritance. Keaton is pursued by money-hungry prospects in one of the best chase scenes ever filmed. Narration is provided by Jay Jackson.
A compilation of clips from various Laurel and Hardy films
Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along with clips from many of the shorts that made the duo stars, it includes clips from a 1918 comedy starring Laurel on his own as well as scenes from three shorts Hardy made in 1917 and '18 with his original comedy partner, Billy West. To put the duo's work in context, the film briefly features other comedians who worked with producer Hal Roach.
Self (archive footage)
A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel.
Ollie (archive footage)
Una compilación de cortos de Laurel y Hardy: De la sopa a las nueces, otra vez mal, Poniendo los pantalones a Philip, The Finishing Touch, Sugar Daddies y videos cortos de otros --- además de Max Davidson Call of the Cuckoo y Dumb Daddies, con algunas imágenes de Charley Chase cruzadas, que, junto con "La edad de oro de la comedia" de Robert Youngson, "When Comedy Was King", "Days of Thrills and Laughter", generaron un renovado interés y un renacimiento de la televisión Presentaciones de los pantalones cortos Laurel y Hardy.
Thanks
Aventuras y desventuras de los participantes en una carrera automovilística entre Nueva York y París, a principios del siglo XX. Jack Lemmon y Tony Curtis interpretan a dos excéntricos participantes que, a bordo de sus flamantes vehículos, mantienen una feroz rivalidad entre ellos. Todo tipo de incidentes y situaciones cómicas se irán sucediendo.
Oliver in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy.
archive footage
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
edited from 'Big Business' (archive footage)
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
archive footage
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
Ollie
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
(archive footage)
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold diggers. After managing to clear his name he becomes, with Oliver Hardy, a big comedy star.
Sucker (uncredited)
Un entrenador de hípica que pasa por una mala racha pone toda su confianza en su caballo para la próxima competición. No obstante, éste se escapa de su cuadra. Los problemas se complican cuando el sheriff del condado reclama a Dan su caballo al no haber hecho frente al pago de unas facturas. A medida que se acerca la hora del Derby, cuando tenía previsto competir su caballo "Broadway Bill", los nervios atenazan a Dan Brooks, quien una vez que ha recuperado a su caballo se encuentra con un nuevo imprevisto.
Willie Paine
John Breen es un soldado de Kentucky que regresa desde Nueva Orleans a su tierra. En Alabama, conoce y se enamora de Fleurette De Marchand, hija de un general francés, quien se opone a la relación. John comienza a buscar trabajo en la ciudad y descubre que existe un plan para echar de Alabama a la comunidad francesa y acabar con el padre de su amada.
Ollie
Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.
Oliver
Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal to visiting royalty.
Ollie
During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.
Ollie
Laurel y Hardy dirigen una escuela de danza. Laurel se encarga de los bailes clásicos y Hardy de los modernos. Bob Bailey ha hecho un invento importante, pero no puede casarse con la mujer a la que ama porque el padre de ésta se opone a la boda. Hardy trata de ayudarle en la comercialización del invento y ensaya distintos métodos para hacer dinero. Uno de ellos consiste en suscribir una póliza de seguros a favor de Laurel. Hardy, para cobrar la póliza, se entrevista con una banda de maleantes especialistas en eliminar a personajes asegurados...
Ollie
The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.
Ollie
Dos torpes, fracasados como hombres de negocios y guardias de ataques aéreos, se topan con un nido de saboteadores nazis empeñados en volar la planta local de magnesio.
Himself
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries.
Ollie
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
Oliver
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
Ollie
El malogrado Oliver trabaja desde hace tiempo en una factoría de bocinas. Tal trabajo le está costando la salud, ya que padece una extraña excitación que se convierte en delirio cada vez que suena, junto a sus oídos, una trompa o algo parecido. El médico que ha visitado para acabar con su afección le ha recomendado dos cosas: realizar un viaje largo para relajar los nervios y beber leche de cabra para mejorar su estado. Al conocer el estado de Oliver, su inseparable amigo, Stan le comenta que no es necesario realizar una gran travesía para disfrutar del aire marino, y le propone alquilar una pequeña embarcación del muelle. Oli acepta y Stan consigue una cochambrosa barca por cuatro cuartos. Junto a la pareja de amigos, viajan una entrañable cabra que le proporcionará leche a Oliver y un inesperado polizonte, un peligroso asesino que se acaba de fugar de la cárcel
Ollie
Tras varios intentos desesperados de buscar trabajo, Laurel y Hardy terminan trabajando de barrenderos. Sin proponérselo, detienen a un ladrón de bancos, por lo que el director, en agradecimiento, decide pagarles los estudios en la prestigiosa universidad de Oxford. Cuando llegan allí, protagonizan varios enredos y bromas.
Ollie
Un hombre sufre un desengaño cuando descubre que la chica a la que quiere está casada con un soldado. Pretende suicidarse con la ayuda de un amigo, pero mientras lo intenta aparece un oficial de la Legión Extranjera que los anima a alistarse, asegurándoles que en pocos días olvidarán lo sucedido. Una vez allí, las aventuras se sucederán con cómicos resultados.
Dr. Henry Tibbett
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Ollie
La película arranca en las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial, donde un Stan despistado se queda guardando la posición... ¡por veinte años! Al fin, se entera que el conflicto ha terminado. Entretanto, su amigo Ollie se ha casado. El reencuentro supone reiniciar la amistad, pero esto puede traer consecuencias en el matrimonio de Ollie.
Himself
A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie son vendedores de trampas para ratones que esperan mejores negocios en Suiza, con la teoría de Stan de que debido a que hay más queso en Suiza, debería haber más ratones.
Oliver Hardy
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie acuden a Brushwood Gulch para entregarle a la hija de un buscador de oro la escritura de propiedad de la mina. Al ser engañados por el propietario del salón y su mujer, deciden recuperar el documento empleando el procedimiento de los rateros: cuerdas, poleas... ¡y una mula!
Himself
The rarest of Laurel and Hardy films this side of The Rogue Song (1930), That's That is a gag reel made up of alternate takes and bloopers said to have been compiled by film editor Bert Jordan as a present for Stan Laurel's birthday in 1937.
Ollie / Bert Hardy
Los magos del humor, Laurel y Hardy, interpretan a dos marineros encargados de entregar un valioso paquete en el puerto donde, por casualidad, viven sus hermanos gemelos, felizmente casados. Los gemelos y sus dos novias se intercambian, por error, con sus hermanos. Uno de los más divertidos trabajos de los míticos Laurel y Hardy, conocidos en España como El gordo y el flaco. En esta ocasión interpretan dos papeles cada uno, lo que fue posible gracias a los magistrales trucos fotográficos del cámara Rudolph Maté, uno de los grandes directores de fotografía de la historia del cine
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Cameo appearance (hitchhiker)
Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in with two vagabond hitchhikers.
Ollie
Una caravana de gitanos con la que viajan los ladronzuelos Stan y Ollie acampa junto a las murallas del palacio del conde de Arnheim. Un día, la infiel y vengativa esposa de Ollie, enfurecida por el arresto de su amante, secuestra a la hija del Conde, Arline, y huye dejándola con Stan y Ollie, quienes la criarán desconociendo su auténtica identidad. Tras pasar doce años, Arline es detenida en las tierras del palacio y llevada al calabozo, sus torpes amigos armarán un auténtico embrollo tratando de rescatarla.
Cleaner
Promo for MGM's upcoming 1935-36 releases hosted by Laurel & Hardy and Jimmy Finlayson. Brief clips are shown from Rose Marie, Anna Karenina, Broadway Melody, China Seas, The Great Ziegfield and others. Don't miss a few seconds from the 1935 version (now lost) of Tarzan Escapes showing Jane with a great ape; there were no great apes in the 1936 release.
Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
Ollie y Stanley marchan hacia tierras escocesas en busca de fortuna. Lo que allí les lleva no es otra cosa que una herencia de Stan, aquí apellidado MacLaurel. Pero, hete aquí, que cuando recibe la herencia todos sus anhelos se frustran: el montante consiste en unas gafas y una pitillera. Así las cosas, la pareja se enrola en las fuerzas de Su Majestad para luchar en las fronteras de la India.
Ollie
Oliver está en problemas con su esposa después de no hacer un pago de sus muebles, después de haberle dado el dinero a Stanley, quien lo usó para pagarle a la Sra. Hardy su alojamiento y comida. A sugerencia de Stan, Ollie retira los ahorros de la pareja del banco para pagar los muebles y, sin darse cuenta, paga prácticamente la cantidad total en una subasta por un reloj de pie que pronto es aplastado por un camión que pasa. La Sra. Hardy luego, sin querer, causa lesiones graves a Ollie, lo que requiere que lo lleven de urgencia al hospital para una transfusión de sangre. El médico recluta a Stan para que sea el donante de sangre involuntario. Ocurren problemas con la transfusión y cuando Stan y Ollie salen del hospital, parecen haberse transformado el uno en el otro.
Mr. Hardy
Their Night Out - Screen Test Starring Oliver Hardy, Patsy Kelly, and George 'Spanky' McFarland
Ollie
Los vendedores de postales Stan y Ollie llaman a la puerta de una mujer desesperada por la falta de atenciones de su marido. Éstos se ofrecen a ayudarla despertando los celos de éste. El plan resulta exitoso, pero el enfurecido marido reta a duelo al pobre Ollie, que trata de huir con su amigo Stan.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie han abierto su propia tienda de electrodomésticos pero, por desgracia para ellos, la tienda de comestibles de al lado está a cargo del hombre y la mujer que conocieron en "Them Thar Hills" (1935). Stan y Ollie van de visita para ofrecerle la mano de la amistad, pero el tendero nuevamente se convence de que Ollie y su esposa están bromeando.
Ollie Dee
En Toyland vive la pareja formada por Stannie Dum y Ollie Dee. Los dos se encuentran hospedados en la casa de Madre Peep y trabajan en una fábrica de juguetes. En dicho fantástico país el malvado y siniestro Silas Barnaby corteja a la hija de la anciana señora Peep, aunque ella se niega a acceder a sus deseos de matrimonio, puesto que su corazón está entregado a un joven de su entorno. Debido a esta negativa, Barnaby pone en práctica un método de presión…
Ollie
Los trabajadores del mercado de pescado, Stan y Ollie, son persuadidos por un capitán de barco para que recluten hombres en un bar para formar una tripulación.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie viajan a las montañas por la salud de Ollie y estacionan su caravana cerca de un pozo en el que una pandilla de licoreros ha arrojado su alcohol ilegal anteriormente; y los muchachos proceden a saciar su sed pensando que es agua de montaña rica en hierro. Sin embargo, el verdadero problema no comienza hasta que una pareja casada de automovilistas se detiene para pedir prestada gasolina, y el marido, que ya está de mal humor, deja a su esposa sedienta con los niños mientras él se va a llenar el tanque de gasolina vacío de su automóvil. Se hizo una secuela de esta película: TOMA Y DACA, qv
Mr. Hardy
En una sala del tribunal abarrotada, Butch Long jura vengarse de los 'chivatos' Laurel y Hardy, cuyas pruebas ayudaron a enviarlo a prisión. Asustados, los niños planean irse de la ciudad y buscar a alguien para compartir los gastos con ellos. La mujer que responde al anuncio es en realidad la novia de Butch. Mientras tanto, Butch escapa y se esconde en un baúl en el apartamento de su novia, donde queda encerrado. Sin darse cuenta de quién es, Stan y Ollie finalmente logran abrir el baúl y luego Butch se venga.
Ollie
Schnarzan (Jimmy Durante), el héroe del cine de aventuras, está siendo cuestionado por sus falsas y ridículas peleas con animales. Cuando se entera de que el Barón de Munchausen y sus leones amaestrados andan de gira por Hollywood, el actor y el productor organizan una gran fiesta a la que invitan al barón para ver si logran convencerlo de que sus leones aparezcan en su siguiente película.
Ollie
Ollie regentan un salón de peluquería. Mientras esperan que aparezca algún cliente, Stan descubre el anuncio de una rica viuda que busca marido joven. Ambos se retan mutuamente a conquistar el corazón de la misteriosa señora. Hardy hace trampa enviando sólo su carta y resulta ser el candidato elegido. Pronto descubrirá que la viuda es peligrosa y que lo ha elegido únicamente por su nombre... ¡para llevar a cabo una terrible venganza!
Writer
Stan y Ollie se comprometen a asistir a una convención de los “Hijos del Desierto” que coincide con un viaje a las montañas planeado por el matrimonio Hardy. Ollie simula una enfermedad que exige un viaje por mar. Mientras él y Stan disfrutan de la convención, el barco tropieza con una catástrofe.
Oliver 'Ollie' Hardy
Stan y Ollie se comprometen a asistir a una convención de los “Hijos del Desierto” que coincide con un viaje a las montañas planeado por el matrimonio Hardy. Ollie simula una enfermedad que exige un viaje por mar. Mientras él y Stan disfrutan de la convención, el barco tropieza con una catástrofe.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie son deshollinadores que trabajan en la casa del científico loco Profesor Noodle.
Baby
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie trabajan en un aserradero. Pero debido a su incompetencia deben acabar huyendo del iracundo capataz.
Officer Oliver Hardy
Stanley y Oliver son dos polícias novatos y despistados a los que tratan de robar la rueda de recambio de su coche patrulla estando ellos dentro, comiendo. Más tarde, no logran tomar los datos de un atraco y tratan de llamar a la centralita desde el teléfono de una joyería, sin darse cuenta de que en ella se está cometiendo un robo...
Ollio
El Gordo y el Flaco son dos picaruelos delincuentes de la Italia del siglo XVII llamados Stanlio y Ollio. Libre adaptación de la ópera de Auber.
Ollie
El día en que Ollie se va a casar con la hija de su jefe, su amigo y padrino de boda, Stan, llega con un rompecabezas como regalo. El juego no sólo absorberá la atención de los dos compañeros, sino también del mayordomo y del chófer que los ha de llevar a la iglesia. Mientras, la novia y su padre esperan y desesperan...
Ollie / Mrs. Laurel
Un año antes de la primera escena, Stan se casó con la hermana de Ollie y Ollie se casó con la hermana de Stan en una boda doble. Todos viven juntos y Stan y Ollie trabajan en la misma oficina.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie son vendedores ambulantes de pescado. Cuando a Stan se le ocurre una brillante idea para mejorar el negocio, pescando su propios peces, Ollie se lo toma al pie de la letra.
Ollie
Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs Hardy says that she is through if Ollie goes out with Stan again. Stan suggests that Ollie adopts a baby, which he does. Unfortunately, his wife has left their apartment on returning, and a process server delivers a paper informing Ollie that she is suing him for divorce, naming Stan as correspondent. The boys are now left to look after the infant on their own.
Ollie
Mientras Laurel y Hardy luchan en el frente durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un buen amigo suyo resulta gravemente herido y, antes de morir, les pide que busquen a su hija y la lleven a casa de sus abuelos; pero la misión resultará más difícil de lo previsto. En su segundo largometraje, Laurel y Hardy se propusieron suavizar con unas pinceladas de humor un asunto tan serio como la guerra.
Ollie
Ya que en la cárcel no cabe ni un preso más, el juez ordena a los vagabundos Stan y Ollie que abandonen la ciudad antes de una hora. Una vez en la calle y bajo la lluvia, los chicos ayudan a un borracho a recuperar las llaves de su coche. Éste, agradecido, los llevará de vuelta a casa, ¡pero a la casa equivocada!
Himself
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy visit Scotland in the Summer of 1932
Himself
Actors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy visit Tynemouth in North East England.
Ollie
Ollie está en el hospital con una pierna rota. Stan le paga una visita, acompañada de un regalo bien de huevos duros y nueces. Stan causa tantos problemas que una furiosa Dr. Gilbert órdenes paciente y resultados del hospital a la vez. Antes de salir, Stan accidentalmente se sienta en una aguja hipodérmica llena de sedantes. Él intenta volver a casa Ollie, pero es casi dormido al volante, y el coche circula salvajemente por las calles.
Ollie
Los desastres causados por los torpes artistas Stanley y Oliver llevan a la ruina al circo en el que trabajan. Su endeudado propietario decide compensar a los empleados repartiendo el circo entre ellos. A Stanley le toca el circo de pulgas mientras que Oliver se lleva un exótico chimpancé con tutú llamado Ethel...
Ollie
La empresa de mudanzas Laurel & Hardy tiene el cometido de entregar un piano mecánico, que ha de subir por un elevado tramo de escaleras. Entorpecen su labor una enfermera, un policía y, finalmente, el supuesto destinatario del piano. Primera comedia en la historia del cine en obtener un Oscar al mejor cortometraje
Ollie
Ya en puerto, tras una expedición ballenera, Stan y Ollie se hospedan en un hotelucho en el que salvan a una chica de tener que casarse con el rudo propietario del lugar. En su huida, olvidan el dinero ganado. Pronto, Stan se ve convertido en boxeador para conseguir de nuevo dinero.
Ollie
Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.
New Suitor (uncredited)
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie se unen a la Legión Extranjera Francesa después de que la novia de Ollie lo rechace.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie, dos víctimas de la Gran Depresión que recorren América sin apenas pertenencias, agradecen la comida que les ofrece una anciana. Mientras almuerzan en su cocina, oyen como ésta implora a su casero que no la eche. Deciden ayudarla con una subasta sin saber que lo que oyeron fue el ensayo de una obra de teatro.
Ollie
La tranquilidad en casa de los Hardy se ve interrumpida por la llegada de los Laurel. Stan y Ollie salen a comprar helado y por el camino salvan a una mujer de morir ahogada. No tardarán en arrepentirse de su proeza...
Ollie
Encarcelados por vender cerveza casera en tiempos de ley seca, Laurel y Hardy logran el apoyo de un sorprendente aliado para escapar de prisión gracias al voz de pedorreta emitido por Laurel por culpa de un diente flojo.
Ollie
Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" When Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebenezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.
Ollie
Oliver está haciendo planes para casar a su novia Dulcy con Stan como su padrino, pero los planes se frustran cuando el padre de Dulcy ve una foto de Ollie y prohíbe el matrimonio. La pareja planea fugarse y huir a un juez de paz. Después de los típicos errores de Laurel y Hardy, logran escabullirse de la casa de su padre.
Oliver
Ollie se postula para alcalde y un viejo amor amenaza con chantajearlo.
Señor Hardy
Dos vagabundos sin hogar se esconden en una mansión vacía y se hacen pasar por los residentes cuando los arrendatarios potenciales llegan y tratan el alquiler.
Police Driver
Cortometraje promocional lleno de estrellas de la época destinado a recaudar fondos para el sanatorio de tuberculosis National Variety Artists, producido en asociación con una compañía de cigarrillos. La trama sigue la investigación del robo de la joyería de Norma Shearer. Laurel & Hardy aparecen brevemente (como lo hace el resto del elenco) como dos detectives.
Ollie
Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.
Mr. Oliver Hardy
Ollie es candidato a alcalde cuando un viejo amor (Mae Busch) intenta chantajearlo con una foto antigua ("el mismo viejo muchacho con mejillas como manzanas"). Los intentos de Stan por ayudar a mantener a raya a la chantajiste de Ollie hacen incurrir en la ira de la señora Laurel, que se venga con un hacha.
M. Hardy
Having been kicked out by their wives on a wintry night they attempt to smuggle their little dog into an apartment house where dogs are not allowed.
Ollie
Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from a lodge buddy telling him that a stag party is taking place that night in their honor. Ollie pretends to be sick and sends the wives on ahead, promising that he and Stan will meet them in the morning. The pair dress in their lodge gear, but their wives return having missed their train. With no obvious escape route, Stan and Ollie take to a bed in fear and in response to Stan's plea of "What'll I do?", Ollie replies "Be big!".
Ollie
Dos vagabundos sin hogar se esconden en una mansión vacía y se hacen pasar por los residentes cuando los arrendatarios potenciales llegan y tratan el alquiler.
Ollie
Noche de duendes es la versión española de 1930 de dos cortometrajes de Stan Laurel y Oliver Hardy (Stanlio y Ollio): Concierto para violonchelo (1929) y los vagabundos (1930), dirigido por James Parrott. La película ve los dos cortometrajes unidos entre sí, con diálogos cambiados, como si se tratara de un solo medio largometraje.
Ollie
Ollie da con una nota del periódico en la que se reclama la presencia de los herederos de Ebeneezer Laurel, de Chicago, que falleció dejando una herencia de 3.000.000 millones de dólares. Éste convence a Stan de que debe asistir pretendiendo ser un familiar y hacerse con el legado. Tras un tremendo viaje en tren, llegan a la residencia del difunto y se encuentran metidos en una trama de asesinato...
Ollie
Ollie no puede encontrar su sombrero, para diversión de su esposa y su criada. Luego, Ollie y Stan intentan instalar una antena de radio en la azotea.
Ollie
Los músicos callejeros Stan y Ollie no tienen éxito en ganar dinero en pleno invierno en un barrio malo. Sus instrumentos se destruyen en una discusión con una mujer, pero su suerte parece cambiar cuando Stan encuentra una billetera.
Ollie
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.
Ollie
Stan le miente a su esposa acerca de ir a un club nocturno con Ollie, pero la Sra. Laurel escucha el complot y los engaña a ambos.
Ollie Sr. / Oliver Jr.
Stanley y Oliver están tratando de pasar una noche tranquila en casa jugando a las damas, pero las travesuras de sus hijos traviesos no paran de interrumpir sus actividades recreativas.
Ollie
Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting wife's liquor, but she overhears his plans.
Murza-Bek
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
Versión bilingüe y extendida del cortometraje "Night Owls" (1930), rodada simultáneamente con su predecesora para el mercado español.
Ollie
Policeman Edgar Kennedy is told by his chief he better stop a string of burglaries that have been happening on his watch or else he will get the sack. He persuades vagrants Stan and Ollie to rob the chief's house so he can regain his reputation by catching them. The policeman promises to later get the boys off. Things do not go as planned.
Ollie
Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord.
Self
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie son arrestados “por estar viendo un robo”. Ya en prisión, el guardia los pilla intentando escapar y como castigo son enviados a realizar trabajos forzados en una carretera. Allí recibirán una visita de inspección del Gobernador.
Oliver
Laurel and Hardy are debt collectors trying to repossess a console radio.
Ollie
Los extravagantes y accidentados intentos de Stanley de curar el resfriado de su amigo Oliver provocan la ira del casero de la pensión donde viven. Las cosas empeoran desbordantemente, ¡al igual que el colchón inflable sobre el que duermen!
Ollie
Los planes de picnic de las familias Laurel y Hardy parecen verse frustrados incluso antes de partir. Para empezar, Stan y Ollie destruyen los emparedados con sus disparatadas riñas y, a continuación, su vehículo sufre una serie de averías que provocan un hilarante entrar y salir del coche de toda la troupe con tío Edgar incluido.
Ollie
Los marinos Stan y Ollie conocen a dos chicas en el parque. Después de una agradable visita a una heladería, deciden ir al lago a remar, allí comenzarán los líos.
Ollie
The story involves Stan and Ollie as two musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville. It was only their second sound film, but a silent version was also made for cinemas at the time that were not equipped to show talkies.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie causan estragos en un hotel de clase alta en sus trabajos como lacayo (Hardy) y portero (Laurel). Desvisten parcialmente a la bomba rubia Jean Harlow (en una breve aparición) y escoltan repetidamente a un noble estirado hasta el hueco de un ascensor vacío.
Oliver Hardy
La señora Hardy se marcha enojada cuando Ollie invita a su amigo Stan a cenar. Los torpes intentos culinarios de éstos atraen a una atractiva vecina, la Señora Kennedy, a la cual le acabará ardiendo el vestido por accidente en el momento menos oportuno.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie tratan de vender un arbol de Navidad a un cliente gruñon.Un malentendido provoca que se origine una colosal batalla en la que Stan y Ollie destruyen la casa del cliente y este a su vez el coche de los dos.
Ollie
Oliver heredará una gran fortuna de su rico tío Bernal, con la condición de que esté felizmente casado. Pero cuando la Sra. Hardy se va justo antes de que el tío Bernal venga de visita, Stanley se ve obligado a cumplir su deber (y arrastrarse) para hacerse pasar por la amada esposa de Oliver.
Ollie
Los mozos de cuadra Stan y Ollie cuidan un pura sangre llamado "Blue Boy". Pero cuando escuchan a dos hombres hablar sobre una recompensa de $ 5000 por la devolución del "Blue Boy" robado, se pierden la parte de que es la pintura, no el caballo. Llevan el caballo a la casa del dueño para reclamar la recompensa. El propietario les indica que pongan "Blue Boy" en el piano y Ollie explica que "estos millonarios son peculiares".
Ollie
Mientras se cambiaban de ropa en un auto de fuga, los convictos fugados Stan y Ollie se pusieron los pantalones por error. Pasan el resto de la película tratando de intercambiar pantalones en varios escenarios poco probables.
Ollie
Stan y Ollie intentan engañar a sus esposas escabulléndose a un juego de póquer, pero en cambio se involucran con dos mujeres coquetas, una de las cuales es la novia de un boxeador celoso.
Ollie
Loony scientist hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.
Ollie
Dos marineros dejan en tierra alquilar un coche y salen a dar una vuelta con sus citas, pero pronto se ven envueltos en un enorme atasco de tráfico con decenas de automovilistas malhumorados. Una colisión menor desencadena una serie creciente de represalias.
Ollie
Oliver hereda una fortuna y contrata a Stan como su mayordomo y procede a atormentarlo. Stan finalmente se rebela y se enfurece, destruyendo los elegantes muebles de Oliver.
Ollie
Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.
Ollie
The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys run up a huge tab treating a couple of girls to dinner at a snazzy nightclub and much trouble ensues.
Ollie, French horn player
Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor.
Hired butler
Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.
Ollie
Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the house and it collapses. Naturally, the owner wants his money back.
Mighty Giant
Cavemen Stan and Ollie vie for the affections of a stone-age beauty.
Ollie
Stan complains of a toothache and he and Ollie visit the dentist. Ollie gets his teeth pulled by mistake. Under the influence of laughing gas, they leave and cause much commotion on the road annoying a traffic cop.
Manager
El gerente de pelea contrata una póliza de seguro para su pugilista insignificante y luego procede a tratar de arreglar un accidente para que pueda cobrar.
J. Piedmont Mumblethunder
Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.
Sherlock Pinkham
An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
'Happy' Hopey
A pair of gold prospectors (Max Davidson, Oliver Hardy) try to make their way in the big city. *Only reconstructed fragments exists.
Ollie
Stan and Ollie are salesmen attempting to sell a washing machine; they fail constantly after several near misses. One would-be sale has them carrying the machine up a large flight of steps, only to find out that a young lady wants them to post a letter for her. The boys later get into an argument knocking off each other's hats, which eventually involves scores of others. A police van eventually carts all those involved away except Stan and Ollie, who afterwards try to find their own headgear amongst the hundreds of others lying on the street.
Asylum Inmate
Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
Big Goofy
Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.
Policeman
This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up again in the '90's. So half of the movie can be seen. It's a fast paced slapstick comedy with also a good comical story about a man (Charley Chase) who is being prosecuted for shooting his wife (Edna Marion).
Purser Cryder
A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.
Brittle's butler
James Finlayson es un rico hombre de negocios que un día se despierta sin recordar que se ha casado la noche anterior. Su abogado (Laurel) y el mayordomo (Hardy) tratarán de ayudarle a salir de esta situación.
Top Sergeant Banner
Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.
First Mate
Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's wife fires off a parting shot.
Ice Man
Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.
Big Bill
A Charley le gusta la buena vida. Conoce a una chica de buena familia pero su padre no soporta a los juerguistas, así que se hace pasar como un honrado trabajador y entra a trabajar como chófer del padre. Big Bill (Oliver Hardy) es un malhechor que chantajea al padre y Charley le promete solucionar el asunto.
Judge Chigger
Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a friend to keep her away from his home and wife.
Gordon Bagley
Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set.
Sharkey Nye
A wild stallion (Rex the Wonder Horse) becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter as two thugs plot to steal their claim.
The Butler
Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a wanted thief who has stolen a valuable brooch.
Butler
Priscilla está casada con un artista llamado León. Sin embargo Leon no está mostrando mucho interés por ella. A si que trama un plan para darle celos con Stan que es un vendedor de pintura.Ollie lo viste para que cene esa noche con Priscila y engañar a Leon..pero todo se enredara...
Maltravers
Huyendo de un grupo de guardabosques, que están reuniendo vagabundos para servir de bomberos, se refugian en una mansión. El propietario se ha ido de vacaciones y los sirvientes están ausentes, por lo que Hardy pretende ser el propietario y le ofrece alquilar la casa a una pareja inglesa. Hardy consigue que Laurel se haga pasar por la criada. Desafortunadamente, el propietario regresa y le dice a los posibles inquilinos que él es el propietario de la casa; Laurel y Hardy luego huyen de nuevo y son atrapados por los guardabosques y obligados a combatir incendios forestales.
Policeman
A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
The Cop (as Babe Hardy)
The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couples, the Browns (Glenn Tryon & Vivien Oakland) and the Dazzles (Tyler Brooke & Anita Garvin). The two couples have apartments across the hall from one another, and all four plan to attend a costume ball together. But after each husband expresses unhappiness with his wife's costume the women angrily refuse to go to the party. The two husbands decide to go "stag" and pick up dates, but when Mrs. Brown changes her mind about attending, and Mr. Dazzle and Mr. Brown switch costumes, mix-ups result.
Party Guest at Punch Bowl
Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually grinning Creighton Hale. Mabel seems a little livelier in this film than in some of her other late works. In the very first scene we find her hitch-hiking, and she's forced to make a mad dash for cover when Hale's car nearly hits her. Soon they team up and crash a swanky party in a mansion to steal a jewel from the host's safe.
Hotel Detective
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
Jazz band drummer
Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.
Oswald Schwartzkopple
Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, her attorney, sees a way to solve both their problems, and keep control of her $2 million.
Cab Driver
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Charley's Victim (uncredited)
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan.
Mr. Vincent Belcher - the First Husband
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
Officer (as Oliver Babe Hardy)
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Sheriff Bill
The story is motivated by a long-standing feud, which comes to a head when each of the warring families tries to adopt an orphan girl who is about to receive a huge inheritance.
The Prime Minister's Assistant
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man--but the man is pardoned.
Hector - the Floorwalker
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.
Captain Schmaltz
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.
Camp Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into contact with a mad hermit, who hates anybody seeing his daughter, before returning to cook dinner
The Taxi Driver
A Bankrupt Honeymoon is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring Harold Goodwin and featuring Oliver Hardy.
Babe Mulligan
A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
Doctor
They All Fall is a 1925 American slapstick comedy film featuring Bobby Ray & Oliver Hardy.
Her former sweetheart
Nanette sends a letter to her family telling of her new husband, Hillory. When Hillory arrives to meet the family, he gets insulted by each member, including the dog, and loses his wig. After having dinner with the family, Nanette's former lover returns, and Hillory must confront him
Remington - the Brother-in-Law (as 'Babe' Hardy)
Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
A bellhop (as Babe Hardy)
Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.
A clumsy fiddler plays at an audition with a grouchy teathrical impresario, played by Oliver Hardy.
Wilbert Perkins
Billy West comedy produced by Cumberland and distributed by Arrow.
Theatre manager
FIDDLIN AROUND' (1925) (Starring Babe Hardy).
The Rival
A 1925 silent comedy.
A Rival Taxi Driver
Paperhanger (as Babe Hardy)
A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the asylum interrupt and complicate the work, and, to the dismay of the lazy boss, a nurse is attracted to the helper. Amidst all the paste, ladders, brushes, and the images of circus and jungle animals on the wallpaper, is there any way this job gets done to the satisfaction of the sanitarium's director?
Farmhand
Una campesina se entera de que es una princesa y es arrastrada por un tornado a la tierra de Oz.
Short comedy featuring Oliver Hardy and a lion
Dangerous Dan McGraw
Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in love with DuPoys's daughter. DuPoys suggests that whoever wins the race will have the opportunity to visit his daughter every Wednesday night. An action-packed race commences, with one competitor doing more than usual to win the race.
Killer Kid
Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
Bootlegger
(unconfirmed)
Jimmy Jump appears as a female impersonator in an amateur show who is forced to wear his costume home. He meets with varied experiences, and is such an attractive looking "woman" that the men all want to make dates with him.
Dynamite Duffy
A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato--winds up in the ring with him but, with the aid of some strategically placed horseshoes, manages to knock the boxer out. When he comes to and finds out what happened, the outraged boxer sets out after Larry.
Oliver, the Other Suitor
The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love just before the Semon film was due to come out. Albert E. Smith noticed the similarities and on September 5, 1923 attempted to have the Fox film pulled from the exhibitors.
Store manager
Here we have 'The Gown Shop', very much in Semon's usual style but with fewer laughs than usual. Semon plays his default character, a grotesque hard-working incompetent. (I'm going to be using the word 'grotesque' a lot in this particular review.) This time round, he blunders into a boutique. After causing some damage he can't pay for, Larry is put to work as a general dogsbody. Mayhem ensues.
Farm Hand
Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their hands on the property, by force if necessary. Lay Zee, who knows that oil has been found on nearby farms, convinces the farmer not to sell, and the swindlers enlist the help of another farmhand, who is jealous of Lay Zee's relationship with the girl.
Oliver, an Impetuous Suitor
The Midnight Cabaret is a 1923 American film directed by Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy.
Writer
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina suspected of being the headquarters of the dope ring.
The Girl's Father
Larry arrives at his girlfriend's house to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Her father, who is in the middle of winning a chess game for the first time in 20 years, immediately throws Larry out the window. Meanwhile, the girl is kidnapped by a Chinese servant, who is secretly the henchman of a gangster who has developed a sleeping potion he wants to try out on an unsuspecting woman. Larry finds out, and he sets out to rescue his girlfriend and try not to get thrown out of a window by her father again.
Gaston Gilligan
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face.
'Bull' Mulligan
Robert Ware takes it upon himself to tame wild girl, Mag, to prove to his doubting friend Arnold, he can turn her into a graceful young lady. Later, when Arnold is in the war, he meets a pretty nurse who greatly impresses him. Back home he recalls the pleasant encounter to Robert, telling him of the gentle beauty he never forgot. Mag, now Margaret, overhears the story and reveals to Arnold, she was the nurse. The surprised Arnold now has to admit that Robert was right about gentling the little wild cat.
The neighbor
Comedy on the golf links.
General Alarm
A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
Stage manager / Audience Member (as Babe Hardy)
A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
The Foreman
A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.
Masked bandit who confronts Laurel
In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.
Hotel manager
A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
Gentleman Joe, alias Black Bart (as Babe Hardy)
Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.
Foreman (as Babe Hardy)
Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
The Big Boss (as Babe Hardy)
The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
The Life Saver
Jimmy Aubrey comedy produced by Vitagraph.
Thug
Jimmy Aubrey lets the kids in the alley shoot arrows at him. After he grows tired of this, he treats them like satchels to get them out of his way. A policeman shows up and he is terrified; later, disguised as a policeman, he encounters Oliver Hardy, who is in brutal mode here.
Her Father (as Babe Hardy)
Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope but the near-sighted father mistakes her for the twin brother and all chaos follows.
Audience member (uncredited)
Babe, a millionaire
Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy comedy produced by Vitagraph.
Mr. Peeble Ford (as Babe Hardy)
Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.
Al K. Hall
Vitagraph comedy with Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy.
A Janitor
Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.
Solomon Soop(as Babe Hardy)
Two hotel bell hops get into all kinds of shenanigans between dames, baths and bags of loot.
Head Waiter (as Babe Hardy)
A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he will have to work.
A German customer
A devoted husband (as Babe Hardy)
A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.
A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917).
The Boss
Billy West as does fairly random series of gags as a bellboy in a rather poor hotel run by Oliver Hardy.
The Superintendent
Short King Bee Studios slapstick comedy featuring Billy West and Oliver Hardy
Cafe Owner
'The Rogue' casts West as the slavey in a boarding-house (not a very Chaplinesque role) overseen by a landlady who seems to be a cross between Alice Davenport and Marie Dressler, with a dash of Hattie Jacques. He crosses paths with a counterfeit count (White) and a stolen violin worth $20,000.
Ollie
Imagine this, and you are in the world of Billy West, who looks like Chaplin, and acts something like Chaplin, but does not think like him, or come close to moving like him. In this film, West escapes a couple of cops, and fights for the Mabel Normand imitation with Oliver Hardy (who in this film is an Eric Campbell imitation). The dynamic between West in Hardy is more Popeye and Bluto (without the funny gags). The only original jokes involve our heroine's romantic assaults on Hardy's mustache.
Oliver, the saloonkeeper
After a luckless prospecting trip, Billy starts homeward across the desert, mounted on his little burro with his pick, shovel and pack strapped up behind him. Finally he comes in sight of Red Dog Gulch and, hungry and thirsty, he pushes on toward the city. Susie is the daughter of the town drunkard. She starts out on her horse for a little ride, and a little way from town is attacked by Pedro and Little Casino, two Mexicans, who try to steal her horse. Billy happens along, runs the Mexicans off and takes Susie back to town.
The Pest (aka The Freeloader) is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy and starring Billy West in one of his "Charlie Chaplin" rip-off roles.
Harold (as Babe Hardy)
Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
Rival Proprietor
A Fake Chaplin movie with Billy West as the tramp.
Babe (as Babe Hardy)
The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and the bellboy. It is obvious from their reactions, particularly the cook (Leo White) that whatever was said did not go down too well. His animated arms knock down the man standing behind him repeatedly until all three servants simultaneously quit. They storm off into the adjoining kitchen where a slavery maid (Blanche White) is on the floor scrubbing the floor. The men all trip over her, moan briefly and then leave.
Nell
In The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He's still imitating Chaplin, but this time he's playing the wicked, top-hatted Charlie found in some of his earliest Keystone appearances (e.g. Mabel at the Wheel), the ones where Charlie himself seemed to be imitating the studio's recently departed Ford Sterling. Throughout this short there is much spoofing of old-time melodramas, a frequent motif of Sterling's comedies.
Poor Artist
A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy artist living across the hall, and takes unorthodox measures to find out what's going on.
The Hero is a 1917 silent comedy film featuring Billy West & Oliver Hardy.
Little Nell
Billy West tries to court/swindle Little Nell (big Oliver Hardy in drags). but her father is in the way.
Babe
The Guilty Ones is a 1916 Oliver Hardy film.
Director
The Guilty Ones is a 1916 Oliver Hardy film.
Plump (as Babe Hardy)
A 1926 silent comedy.
Pvt. Plump
Ollie is a love-struck private who is drilled by his unsympathetic lieutenant at reveille. The colonel of the regiment wants his daughter to marry the lieutenant but she has her heart set on the chubby-faced Hardy, who himself is in love with another woman. He is thrown into a cell for disobeying orders, where he later escapes with the assistance of his sweetheart, and a casual touch of assault when he bumps the guard with his large stomach. The final chase scene ends with everyone getting what they want.
Maggie Murphy
A young man proposes a lottery with himself as the prize in marriage. However he finds himself very much in love with a woman other than the winner.
Plump (as Babe Hardy)
Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump marries her.
Plump
Plump and Runt are on opposite sides of a mountain feud. Then government revenue agents arrive and both families join together to run off the common enemy.
Plump (as Babe Hardy)
Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.
Plump
When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.
The Grocer
A woman passes a construction site and gets dirt in her eye, which causes her to wink involuntarily. Soon she has a trail of suitors.
Burglar (as O.N. Hardy)
A 1925 silent comedy.
Bill, the Grocer's Boy
Lucy works for the Grouch family, and is used to being overworked and abused. But when Mr. Grouch punches her sweetheart, Bill, she has had enough. She grabs a knife and chases Mr. Grouch until he apologizes to Bill.
Paul Simmons
Jack goes from business to business, trying to sell ad space in his newspaper. At each stop he catches the boss in a compromising position with a secretary. He writes an editorial about the practice, hinting that he could expose prominent businessmen. Suddenly everyone wants to buy ads in his paper.
Bill Myers
Bill is a rich miner but wants a wife. He advertises in an Eastern paper and receives a response from Nellie and Eleanor, but doesn't know it was sent as a joke. When he travels East to meet them, they have the cook pose as the writer of the response.
Jack
At college, Jack is spending his dad's money and not studying. When dad comes for a visit, Jack gets one of his friends to dress as a woman and flirt with his father. Another friend pretends to be the jealous husband, forcing dad to buy his way out of trouble.
Pedestrian
Two tramps look so much alike that they can outfox the police time after time. When one of them is locked in a shack, the police manage to catch the other one and expose the trick.
Ikie is always abused by the other schoolboys. Finally he and his father get even.
Cy (as Babe Hardy)
A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another telegram telling her the inheritances is only $25. All her new 'friends' desert her, except her poor boyfriend.
Percival Pilkins (as Babe Hardy)
Percival is a spoiled mama's boy. When two toughs make time with his girlfriend he sends a telegram to his mother for help.
A cat gets caught under a hat and walks around, frightening everyone in town.
The funniest moments from Laurel and Hardy's most hilarious films
