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Three classic films starring comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver
Hardy. In 'The Dancing Masters' (1943), Stan (Laurel) and Ollie
(Hardy) are owners of a dance school, but are evicted for
non-payment of rent. To raise money, Ollie tries an insurance scam
which involves inflicting injuries on Stan, but the inept pair soon
find themselves mixed up with local gangsters. Watch out for
appearances by long-running Marx Brothers' foil Margaret Dumont and
a youthful Robert Mitchum. In 'A-haunting We Will Go' (1942),
Laurel and Hardy unknowingly offer to help a bunch of crooks
smuggle a wanted man past the police in a coffin. Unfortunately,
the casket gets mixed up with one used by a stage musician, leading
to a comic chase. Finally, in 'The Bullfighters' (1945), Stan and
Ollie are two detectives looking for a female criminal in Mexico.
Stan gets mistaken for a famous matador and is forced to show his
prowess in the bullring.
This box set contains three classic movies of the legendary
comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. 'In Great Guns' (1941),
Stan and Ollie play a butler and chauffeur of wealthy young Dan
Forrester (Dick Nelson). Tired of being pampered and coddled by his
overprotective aunts, Dan is delighted when he is drafted into the
Army. Stan and Ollie also don uniform and accompany Dan to US
Cavalry training camp to make certain that no harm will befall
their 'delicate' master. While the boys get mixed up in one
disaster after another-at one point, Dan pursues a romance with
photo-shop proprietor Ginger Hammond. Convinced that Ginger is a
gold-digger, Stan and Ollie try to break up the romance, to no
avail. 'Jitterbugs' (1943) is considered the best of the Laurel and
Hardy projects filmed at Twentieth Century Fox. Stan and Ollie are
stars of the Zoot Suit Band, who form an unlikely partnership with
a genial con man (Bob Bailey) who allegedly can turn water into
gasoline with an invented pill. When the trio joins a carnival,
they meet Susan, a naive young singer (Vivian Blaine), whose mother
has been swindled by fraudsters. Suddenly gallant, the three
organise a sting operation, with Stan disguised as a wealthy
elderly lady and Ollie as a rich Texan and aim to get the woman's
money back. Although things don't go as planned, the inimitable
comedy duo provides nonstop laughs from start to finish. In 'The
Big Noise' 1944) Stan and Ollie play janitors of a detective agency
who pose as super-sleuths and are hired to protect inventor Alva P.
Hartley (Arthur Space). They move to his house which is loaded with
crazy contraptions which entrap, baffle and bamboozle the
protectors. Meanwhile Hartley's next door neighbors Charlton (Frank
Fenton), Hartman (James Bush), Dutchy (Phil Van Zandt) and Mayme
(Veda Ann Borg) reveal themselves as the biggest threat of all, a
gang of crooks determined to get their hands on the inventor's
deadly creation, a super-bomb called 'The Big Noise'. Stan and
Ollie escape with the bomb to the War Department in Washington,
D.C. just one step ahead of the criminals. Through a series of
crazy misadventures, the heroic duo end up in a remote-controlled
airplane, along with the bomb, and head straight for trouble.
A compilation of some of the funniest moments starring the
legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. Produced by Robert Youngson,
it traces the development of the pair's career, beginning with
their early solo work and examining all the phases along the way.
It also provides a context for their work by setting it alongside
that of their contemporaries.
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