Laurel & Hardy’s Laughing 20’s is a compilation of some of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s short films. It’s only 90 minutes long, but jam-packed with laughs! Highly recommended.
The Short films are:
- From Soup to Nuts
- Wrong Again
- Putting the Pants on Philip
- The Finishing Touch
- Sugar Daddies
- Short clips from others
- Fatty’s Fatal Fun (Oliver Hardy)
- Kill or Cure (Stan Laurel)
- 45 Minutes from Hollywood (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy)
- Liberty
- Double Whoopee
- Leave ‘Em Laughing
- Two Tars
- Habeas Corpus
- Second Hundred Years
- You’re Darn Tootin
- The Battle of the Century
- We Faw Down
- Max Davidson’s Call of the Cuckoo and Dumb Daddies
- As well as some cross-over Charley Chase footage
- Never the Dames Shall Meet
It’s a very funny compilation, with some things I’d not seen before. You can rent it from Amazon, or watch it for free on Tubi TV.
Cast of characters
- Oliver Hardy (Pack Up Your Troubles) … Ollie
- Jay Jackson (Days of Thrills and Laughter) … Narrator
- Stan Laurel (Angora Love) … Stan
- Vivien Oakland (We Faw Down)
- Glenn Tryon (The Lost Films of Laurel & Hardy: volume 3)
- Anita Garvin (From Soup to Nuts)
- Tiny Sandford (The Hoose-Gow, Modern Times)
- James Finlayson (Block-Heads)
- Charley Chase (Those Love Pangs) … (archive footage)
- Viola Richard
- Max Davidson
- Anders Randolf
- Dorothy Coburn (The Battle of the Century)
- Edgar Kennedy (The Star Boarder)
- Lillian Elliott
- Spec O’Donnell
Trivia
There was so much prime material from Laurel and Hardy’s silent shorts that Robert Youngson prepared a second compilation feature “The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy” (1967). More Laurel and Hardy footage created a second follow up, “4 Clowns” (1970) (adding Buster Keaton and more footage of Charley Chase). These three compilations of Laurel and Hardy’s silent comedy would be the final work for Robert Youngson who would pass away four years later.
Editorial review of Laurel & Hardy’s Laughing 20’s courtesy of Amazon.com
A compilation of primarly Laurel and Hardy shorts—From Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting the Pants on Philip, The Finishing Touch, Sugar Daddies and short clips from others—plus Max Davidson’s Call of the Cuckoo and Dumb Daddies, with some cross-over Charley Chase footage, which, along with Robert Youngson’s previous “The Golden Age of Comedy“, “When Comedy Was King“, “Days of Thrills and Laughter“, led to a renewed interest in and a revival of television showings of Laurel and Hardy shorts.
The cast was billed in order of their appearance: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Vivien Oakland (with a Vivian typo), Glen Tyron, Edna Murphy, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sanford, Jimmy Finlayson, Charlie Chase, Viola Richard, Max Davidson, Del Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Anders Randolf (as Anders Randolph), Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Lillian Elliott and “Spec” O’Donnell.