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Laurel & Hardy Classic Comedy Shorts
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Laurel and Hardy were a comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. The team was composed of Englishman Stan Laurel and American Oliver Hardy. They became well known during the late 1920s to the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous bully Hardy.

Presented here are some of their best Comedy Shorts.


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Movie: The Lucky Dog (Short 1921) ( 1921 )
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.
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Movie: Mud and Sand (Short 1922) ( 1922 )
Rhubarb enters a bullfighting contest and becomes a local and then a national hero in the Madrid arena. Conflict arises when his lover finds out that he is flirting with alluring Filet de Sole before facing the toughest bull of Spain.
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Movie: Oranges and Lemons (Short 1923) ( 1923 )
After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit into cases. Then he heads to a storage area, and tries to use the machinery to escape his pursuers.
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Movie: Roughest Africa (Short 1923) ( 1923 )
Two explorers travel to Africa to capture and photograph various wildlife.
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Movie: The Soilers (Short 1923) ( 1923 )
During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the mother lode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight.
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Movie: Smithy (Short 1924) ( 1924 )
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds employment at a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amoungst other workers. The constuction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction...Read all
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Movie: West of Hot Dog (Short 1924) ( 1924 )
Greenhorn Stan inherits 'The Last Chance Saloon', but Bad Mike and his cronies try to off him and collect his legacy. Though Stan fears their guns he develops a rolypoly stubbornness in defying their evil schemes.
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Movie: Stick Around (Short 1925) ( 1925 )
Two paperhangers are employed by a sanitarium to hang up some posters. Chaos Ensures.
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Movie: Hop to It! (Short 1925) ( 1925 )
Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel.
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Movie: Wandering Papas (Short 1926) ( 1926 )
A Chef goes to collect food for the bridge workers' dinner.
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Movie: Bromo and Juliet (Short 1926) ( 1926 )
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.
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Movie: Crazy to Act (Short 1927) ( 1927 )
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.
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Movie: Why Girls Love Sailors (Short 1927) ( 1927 )
The Merry Maiden's tough captain sets his sights on the love-smitten Willie Brisling's charming fiancée and kidnaps her. Now, she is a prisoner of love. Will the adulterous sea captain get away with cheating?
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Movie: With Love and Hisses (Short 1927) ( 1927 )
Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble
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Movie: Sugar Daddies (Short 1927) ( 1927 )
Rich oil tycoon (Finlayson) awakens one morning, after a night of carousing, to be told that he was married the night before. His lawyer (Laurel) is called in to straighten things out when a blackmail attempt is made. Wild chases through a dance hall and amusement park ensue.
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Movie: Sailors, Beware! (Short 1927) ( 1927 )
A con artist (Garvin) and her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward (Laurel.)
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Movie: The Second 100 Years (Short 1927) ( 1927 )
Thrown in prison for a hundred years, Little Goofy and Big Goofy finally break free, posing as an anarchic duo of undercover painters. Soon, the boys wind up in a private party as visiting French dignitaries; however, who are they kidding?
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Movie: Hats Off (Short 1927) ( 1927 )
Handymen (Laurel & Hardy) deliver a cumbersome washing machine to a house fronted by a huge flight of stairs.
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Movie: Do Detectives Think? (Short 1927) ( 1927 )
An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
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Movie: Putting Pants on Philip (Short 1927) ( 1927 )
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.
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Movie: The Battle of the Century (Short 1927) ( 1927 )
A scheming fight manager attempts to collect insurance on his puny fighter by causing an accident. Things don't go according to plan, and the situation escalates into a pie-throwing battle of epic proportions.
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Movie: Leave 'em Laughing (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
In the dead of night, a terrible toothache wakes up poor Stan, and after a series of home-made remedies, Ollie takes him to the dentist. There, ample amounts of laughing gas lead to the perfect mess. Will Stan ever visit the dentist again?
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Movie: Flying Elephants (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
Laurel & Hardy, in pre-historic times, vie for the hand of the same Stone Age beauty.
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Movie: The Finishing Touch (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
The boys are contracted to build a house in a day but they have many mishaps and run into trouble with the nearby hospital staff, due to their excessive noise.
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Movie: From Soup to Nuts (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
A pair of inexperienced and bumbling waiters are hired for an upper-class dinner party.
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Movie: You're Darn Tootin' (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
Stan and Ollie are musicians whose antics at a band concert end in their employment being terminated, and they must turn to busking to make ends meet. However, playing on street corners proves to be more perilous than they had imagined.
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Movie: Their Purple Moment (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
Stan and Ollie hold out money from their paychecks from their shrewish wives so they can enjoy a night out on the town... with predictable results.
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Movie: Should Married Men Go Home? (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
When Laurel visits Hardy at home, hi-jinx occur and the Mrs. orders them out. They go to a golf course where they try to impress two young ladies and wind up in a mud-slinging fight with other golfers.
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Movie: Early to Bed (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
Oliver inherits a fortune and hires Stan as his butler and proceeds to torment him. Stan finally rebels and goes on a rampage, destroying Oliver's fancy furnishings.
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Movie: Two Tars (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
At a rail crossing, a small fender-bender incident turns into a major tit-for-tat retaliatory war among various motorists.
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Movie: Habeas Corpus (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
Loony scientist (Carle) hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.
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Movie: We Faw Down (Short 1928) ( 1928 )
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.
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Movie: Liberty (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
With the police hot on their trail, Stan and Ollie attempt to change clothes in their getaway car, only to find themselves struggling to balance atop the girders of an unfinished skyscraper. Will they return to ground level in one piece?
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Movie: Wrong Again (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
Laurel and Hardy work at horse stables where a stallion named Blue Boy is kept. When they hear Gainsborough's famous painting, The Blue Boy, has been stolen, the duo rush to collect the offered reward.
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Movie: That's My Wife (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich uncle, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs Hardy walks out just before the uncle is due to visit, Stanley is pressed into impersonating Oliver's loving spouse.
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Movie: Big Business (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner.
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Movie: Unaccustomed As We Are (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
When Mrs. Hardy refuses to cook supper, Mr. Hardy decides to cook it for himself and Mr. Laurel, but things go wrong during a jealous mix-up with the next-door married couple.
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Movie: Double Whoopee (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
Stanley and Oliver, in their new jobs as footman and doorman at a ritzy hotel, wreak their usual havoc on the guests, including partially undressing a swanky blonde guest and repeatedly escorting a haughty Prussian nobleman into an empty elevator shaft.
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Movie: Berth Marks (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
Taking the train to a show in Pottsville, musicians Stanley and Oliver run into trouble once settled in their sleeping car berth.
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Movie: Men O'War (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
On shore leave from the Navy, seamen Stanley and Oliver want to treat two attractive single girls to a glass of soda in the park but only have enough change for three sodas.
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Movie: Perfect Day (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
The boys and their wives are preparing for a drive to a Sunday picnic but infighting is ruining their plans and a sudden feud with a next-door neighbor completes the disaster.
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Movie: They Go Boom! (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
Stanley's attempts to treat Oliver's cold include dropping a swab down his friend's throat, applying a mustard plaster to his rump, and inflating the air mattress from the gas jet until it has Oliver pressed against the ceiling.
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Movie: Bacon Grabbers (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
The novice repo men, Stan and Ollie, are sent to serve a summons to a tough customer who hasn't paid for a radio, as canines, a rifle, and a steamroller threaten to put an end to their ambitions. Just how hard is it to get the job done?
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Movie: The Hoose-Gow (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
Swept up in a police raid, Stan and Ollie are sentenced to jail and land in a jail labor camp. The governor visits, accompanied by two flappers, where the duo accidentally create rice pudding for a food fight.
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Movie: Angora Love (Short 1929) ( 1929 )
Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord. Attempts to bathe the smelly animal result in a waterlogged free-for-all.
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Movie: Une nuit extravagante (Short 1930)
Spanish-language version of Blotto (1931).
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Movie: Feu mon oncle ( 1930 )
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Movie: Pêle-Mêle ( 1930 )
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Movie: Night Owls (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
After far too many break-ins on his watch, an ineffective policeman approaches the unsuspecting vagabonds, Laurel and Hardy, with a preposterous proposition; one that would get him off the hook. But, are the boys up to the task?
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Movie: Ladrones (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
An expanded remake in Spanish of the Laurel and Hardy Night Owls (1930)
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Movie: Blotto (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
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.
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Movie: Brats (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
Laurel and Hardy's bid for a quiet evening of checkers and pool is constantly interrupted by their squabbling brats, little Ollie and little Stanley.
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Movie: La vida nocturna (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and outsmarts them both.
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Movie: Below Zero (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
In winter-time, the boys fail to earn any money by playing their musical instruments in a bad neighborhood but their luck seems to improve when they find a wallet full of money on the street.
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Movie: Tiembla y Titubea (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
Spanish version of Below Zero
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Movie: Hog Wild (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
Ollie can't find his hat, much to the amusement of his wife and maid. Then Ollie and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.
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Movie: Radiomanía (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
Laurel and Hardy attempt to put up an aerial with disastrous results.
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Movie: The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
In order to claim an inheritance, the boys present themselves at a creaky, bat-filled mansion on a stormy night.
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Movie: Laughing Gravy (Short 1930)
Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.
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Movie: Another Fine Mess (Short 1930) ( 1930 )
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
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Movie: Noche de duendes ( 1931 )
Laurel and Hardy Spanish language version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and the film Berth Marks combined.
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Movie: Be Big! (Short 1931) ( 1931 )
In order to secretly attend a stag party in their honor, the boys urge their wives to travel ahead alone on a jointly-planned Atlantic City vacation by invoking Oliver's fake migraine as an excuse to remain behind.
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Movie: Chickens Come Home (Short 1931) ( 1931 )
Mr. Hardy is running for mayor but an old flame of ill repute shows up to blackmail him with an old naughty photograph.
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Movie: Los calaveras ( 1931 )
An expanded remake in Spanish of Be Big. (1931) and Laughing Gravy (1930) by Laurel and Hardy.
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Movie: Politiquerías ( 1931 )
A remake in Spanish of the Laurel and Hardy short Chickens Come Home (1931) , expanded into a feature by adding scenes of a magician and a regurgitator performing.
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Movie: Our Wife (Short 1931) ( 1931 )
Oliver's plans to marry his hefty sweetheart go awry when the girl's father gets a load of her intended groom. They then elope in a tiny car much too small for their combined dimensions, not to mention the accompanying Stan. They find a Justice of the Peace to perform he ceremony, but the official's cross-eyed condition results in unintended consequences.
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Movie: Pardon Us ( 1931 )
Two guys end up in prison after attempting to sell beer to a policeman during Prohibition.
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Movie: Pardon Us ( 1931 )
French language version of Pardon us (1931) - currently thought to be a lost film.
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Movie: Hinter Schloss und Riegel (Short 1931) ( 1931 )
It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman. In prison, Stan's loose tooth keeps getting him in trouble, because it sounds like he's giving everybody a rasp- berry. But it earns him the respect of The Tiger, a rough prisoner, and the boys manage to slip away during The Tiger's escape attempt. They dis...Read all
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Movie: Come Clean (Short 1931) ( 1931 )
Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Laurel send their husbands to the store to buy ice-cream but on the way back home the boys rescue from drowning a suicidal woman who's wanted by the police.
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Movie: Los presidiarios ( 1931 )
Spanish-language version of Pardon Us (1931).
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Movie: One Good Turn (Short 1931) ( 1931 )
A kindly old widow serves a free meal to the penniless boys but her greedy landlord wants to evict her for non payment of her mortgage, prompting the boys to come to her rescue.
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Movie: Beau Hunks (Short 1931) ( 1931 )
Jilted by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver joins the Foreign Legion to forget, bringing Stanley along with him. They wilt under the scorching desert sun and under the harsh discipline of the Commandant. On a long march to reinforce remote Fort Arid, the boys get lost in the sands, finally reaching the Fort only to find it besieged by the fearsome Riffs.
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Movie: Helpmates (Short 1932) ( 1932 )
After a messy house party while his wife is away, Oliver asks Stanley to help him clean up the place, but free help isn't always a bargain.
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Movie: Any Old Port! (Short 1932) ( 1932 )
In need of funds, Hardy happens to meet an old friend, now a boxing promoter, and volunteers "Battling Laurel" as the team's prizefighter, only to discover their opponent in the ring is a fearsome old nemesis.
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Movie: The Music Box (Short 1932) ( 1932 )
Like the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.
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Movie: The Chimp (Short 1932) ( 1932 )
Two bumbling circus performers inadvertently help drive the circus into ruin and then end up in possession of a flea circus and an oversized chimp.
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Movie: County Hospital (Short 1932) ( 1932 )
In the hospital with a broken leg Ollie is visited by Stan, who brings him hard-boiled eggs, nuts, and total mayhem.
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Movie: Scram! (Short 1932) ( 1932 )
Commanded to "scram" out of town by a cantankerous judge, poor vagabonds, Stan and Ollie, slip into something more comfortable to spend the night at a sympathetic inebriate's home; however, is this the right house?
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Movie: Pack Up Your Troubles ( 1932 )
Two war veterans help an orphaned child find her grandfather.
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Movie: Their First Mistake (Short 1932) ( 1932 )
Stan convinces Oliver to adopt a baby to placate his wife, but upon returning home with the infant, they find a process server with a divorce summons, leaving the two buffoons to care for the squealing baby.
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Movie: Towed in a Hole (Short 1932) ( 1932 )
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy is not an easy task.
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Movie: Twice Two (Short 1933) ( 1933 )
Stan and Ollie, married to each other's sisters, plan a dinner party to celebrate their mutual anniversaries.
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Movie: Me and My Pal (Short 1933) ( 1933 )
On his wedding day, Oliver and his best man Stanley become absorbed in a jigsaw puzzle. Eventually the taxi driver, the butler, a policeman and a messenger boy all get involved with the puzzle, making them late for the wedding.
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Movie: The Midnight Patrol (Short 1933) ( 1933 )
Laurel and Hardy patrol the streets as the city's newest cops. This can't possibly end well--except for the criminals who can now safely commit crime.
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Movie: Busy Bodies (Short 1933) ( 1933 )
Stan and Ollie do battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at the sawmill.
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Movie: Dirty Work (Short 1933) ( 1933 )
Hired to sweep the chimney at Professor Noodle's house, the boys wreck the living-room and end-up in the mad scientist's laboratory where they interact with a rejuvenation potion.
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Movie: Sons of the Desert ( 1933 )
When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
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Movie: Oliver the Eighth (Short 1934) ( 1934 )
Keen to climb the social ladder by marrying a rich widow, Oliver finds the nerve to cheat on his partner Stanley. What he doesn't know is that her favorite hobby is murder--and it looks like he's next. Who can save Oliver the Eighth?
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Movie: Hollywood Party ( 1934 )
Jimmy Durante's movie star Schnarzan faces competition when Baron Munchausen arrives with real man-eating lions. Durante hosts a party to use the lions in his next film, but his rival tries to buy the lions first, leading to a conflict.
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Movie: Going Bye-Bye! (Short 1934) ( 1934 )
After testifying in court against a dangerous criminal, the boys plan to skip town, but the criminal escapes prison and comes after them.
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Movie: Them Thar Hills (Short 1934) ( 1934 )
Stan and Ollie take a trip into the mountains ('the high multitude') so that Ollie can recover from gout. Bootleggers have dumped their moonshine in the well from which the boys sample their 'healthy' mountain water.
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Movie: The Live Ghost (Short 1934) ( 1934 )
A gruff sea captain, who absolutely detests the word "ghost," is having trouble manning his ship because of the rumor it's...well...haunted. He inveigles Stanley and Oliver into helping him shanghai a crew from the sailors at a dockside bar. The comic duo accomplish this by using one of the funniest devices ever put into a movie, and of course it all goes wrong. Once ...Read all
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Movie: March of the Wooden Soldiers ( 1934 )
Opposing the evil Barnaby, Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.
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Movie: MGM 1935 Promo Reel (Short 1935)
A promotional film for MGM studios where we see all the stars and latest films introduced by Laurel and Hardy.
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Movie: Tit for Tat (Short 1935) ( 1935 )
After the events in Them Thar Hills (1934), Stan and Ollie encounter their old nemesis, whose grocery shop is next to their home-appliances store. Nobody can let bygones be bygones, and a war breaks out. Will those tit-for-tat battles ever end?
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Movie: The Fixer Uppers (Short 1935) ( 1935 )
A serious case of emotional neglect brings door-to-door Christmas cards salesmen, Stan and Ollie, at the house of an inconsolable wife who is convinced that her artist husband doesn't love her anymore.
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Movie: Thicker Than Water (Short 1935) ( 1935 )
After an endless cycle of dish washing, Ollie makes a withdrawal, ending up in the hospital after buying a grandfather clock. Only a generous blood transfusion can help him bounce back; however, is modern medicine prepared for the outcome?