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.
Audience Member (uncredited)
아마츄어 쇼 코미디언인 돈 록우드(진 켈리)와 코스모(도날드 오코너)는 공연을 하며 이곳저곳을 떠돌아다니다 뜻대로 되지않자 새 일자리를 얻기위해 헐리우드로 온다. 그런데 우연찮게 돈 록우드는 마뉴멘탈 영화사의 스턴트맨 역을 따내게 되고, 당시 최고의 인기를 누리고 있던 여배우인 리나 레이먼트(쟌 하겐)와 함께 다수의 영화에 출연함으로써 단연 스타로 급부상하게 된다. 그러나 화려한 영광도 잠시, 헐리웃 영화계가 무성영화에서 유성영화 체제로 전환됨으로써 목소리 연기가 너무나 형편없는 리나 레이먼트 때문에 영화를 완전히 망치게 되는데...
Fanny Vandercoop
Doris Rogers, half owner of a dude ranch, as Jimmy Wakely, "Lasses" White and Dusty Smith to help run it. U.S. Marshal Tom Logan, posing as a stage driver, is killed during a mock holdup of new arrivals to the ranch. Brenda Amers and Horatio Pennypacker, eastern jewel thieves, bring their loot to Roy Williams, who owns the other half of the ranch as a blind for his gang which resells stolen jewels. Vaughn, the desk clerk, re-cuts the jewels in a secret room in the ice house. Fearing he will be caught, Brenda refuses Williams her stolen diamonds and hides them in a bar of soap.
Sally Hampton (uncredited)
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
Blonde Woman (uncredited)
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Customer (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Wife (uncredited)
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Bridesmaid (uncredited)
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
Woman Waiting for 3 Hours (Uncredited)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Katie, the cook
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
Beer Garden Waitress (uncredited)
An American goes to Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
Woman (uncredited)
시카모어 가족은 사업가였지만 인생을 즐기는 것에 역점을 두기 시작 한 반더호프 할아버지에 의해 이끌어지는 별난 가족이다. 시카모어 가족 일원은 누구나 자신들이 하고 싶은 것을 하며 산다. 할아버지의 딸인 페니 시카모어는 우연히 집으로 타자기가 배달된 것을 계기로 소설가가 되는가 하면 페니의 남편은 지하실에서 폭죽을 만드는 것에 열을 올리고, 또 그 두 부부의 딸인 에씨는 발레 지도 선생의 평가와는 달리 자신이 최고의 발레리나라고 꿈꾸는가 하면, 에씨의 남편 에드는 일보다는 실로폰을 연주하거나 에씨가 만든 사탕을 하나하나 포장지에 싸서 파는 것으로 시간을 보낸다. 시카모어 가족에서 정상적인 단 한 사람 앨리스 시카모어는 부유한 토니 커비와 사랑에 빠지는데, 고루하고 거만한 커비 일가가 시카모어 가족의 집에 저녁 식사를 하러 오면서 재앙 같은 사건이 벌어진다.
Pub Singer
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.
Barmaid (uncredited)
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
Barmaid
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Dolores Deslys (uncredited)
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
Frances - Barmaid McGinnis Flirts With
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
Kay
Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself look bad. He refuses to shave, wears his friend's old suit and even eats garlic. Unfortunately for him, however, his date turns out to be the lovely Thelma Todd.
A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.
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.
Miss Deslys
Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
A butler impersonates his tippler boss and falls for a beautiful young maid. However, a notorious gold-digger, who thinks the butler is the wealthy young man he's impersonating, sets her sights on him.
Apartment House Tenant (uncredited)
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
Mrs. Hardy
Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.
The Crying Wife (uncredited)
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
Little Oscar's Mother
Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again. This film survives only in very fragmentary form.
Kelly's girlfriend
Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
Mrs. Hardy (uncredited)
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.
Mr. Pincher's Girlfriend
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.
Mrs. Phipps
For his birthday, Charley gets a cigarette lighter, but it won't light. He works on it with ill-suited tools amidst his family all giving advice. Finally, he unwisely fuels it with gasoline, which gets it lit, but soon, so is his house.
Big Bill's girl
Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. In the mean time, her father tries to retrieve a compromising letter.
Skater (uncredited)
A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.
Landlord's wife
Charley has several dilemmas facing him at Christmas, all posed by his greedy, heartless landlord Noah and his family.
Big Bertha
During World War I, an American soldier is captured and taken prisoner by the Germans. However, instead of being placed in a prisoner-of-war camp, he is assigned to the small farm of a young woman and her son to help raise crops to help feed the German army and people.
Dance Hall Queen (uncredited)
A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
Melvin's Chubby Date (as Kay de Lys)
Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns.
Georgia's Friend (uncredited)
금광을 찾아 알래스카에 온 찰리는 살인범 블랙의 오두막에서 금광을 찾았다는 멕케이를 만난다. 산속에 갖힌 이들은 원조를 청하는 제비뽑기를 한다. 블랙이 길을 떠나지만 추격중이던 경찰을 만나 죽고,찰리와 맥케이는 너무 배가 고파 구두를 끓여 먹기도 한다. 간신히 마을에 도착한 찰리는 조지아라는 무희에게 반한다. 그녀는 추근거리는 남자들을 따돌리기 위해 찰리와 춤을 추지만, 어느날 그가 자신을 좋아하고 있음을 눈치챈다. 한편 자신이 발견한 금광의 위치를 잊어버린 멕케이는 찰리와 함께 구사일생으로 금광을 다시 찾고 이들은 백만 장자가 되는데...
Mrs. Stutts