One Too Many: This zippy and fun short from 1916 - the time when Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle were the big names in comedy - features the young Oliver Hardy as a ne er-do-well who has to quickly impress his wealthy uncle by producing a wife and baby for his visit. Stan falls foul of them again when he steals their food to give to his new friends and is finally left outside in the yard mooning over the neighbours daughter in a downpour. None too pleased they cause mayhem dragging the neighbours into the argument as Stan throws rubbish into their award winning garden. Hustling for Health: Our down at heel hero Stan is befriended by a stranger at a train depot and brought back to the family home where his wife is having a suffragette meeting. Only Stan survives - but an earlier musing on reincarnation produces a bizarre postscript. They manage to escape in a stolen airplane but crash after a wild ride. When they try to leave after Ollie has recovered from being jilted they are charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. Ollie decides instead to jump into the Seine, along with Stan, but they are talked out of it by François who suggests they join the Legion. Ollie intends to remain in France to marry Georgette (Jean Parker), the innkeeper s daughter, but is heartbroken when he finds that she s fallen in love with and has married dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois (Reginald Gardiner). Laurel and Hardy are rescued and finally arrive at the island Laurel inherited, only to have their land and supplies impounded for failure to pay back taxes! Flying Deuces: Stan and Ollie are holidaying in Paris. Before the execution, however, another storm strikes and submerges the island. People from all over the world flock to the island, but soon the situation turns chaotic when a revolt seeks to overthrow and execute the island s original inhabitants. All goes well until the singer s fiancee arrives to reveal that the new island is rich with uranium deposits. Along with their cook, a stowaway and a girl who is fleeing her fiancé, they set up their own government on the atoll. Utopia: Heading for a newly inherited island, the boys are shipwrecked and marooned on an atoll which has just emerged from the sea. They empty the darts into a cannon but decide instead to unleash the toy soldiers on their enemy. Stan and Ollie run and hide in the toy shop where they discover a box of darts to battle the Bogeymen. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stannie Dum instead of Bo Peep. Our heroes try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on the shoe and to keep Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee (played by Laurel and Hardy) live in a shoe which is owned by the villainous Silas Barnaby who is looking to marry Bo Peep. This lavishly illustrated book, packed with rare photographs and trivia, is the perfect complement to the accompanying six DVDs which feature an incredible selection of Laurel & Hardy material.March of the Wooden Soldiers: The film s story takes place in Toyland which is inhabited by Mother Goose and other well known fairy tale characters. With an appeal that transcends time, age and language, they enjoy a universal popularity that has never been topped. Straddling the worlds of silent cinema, talkies, shorts, feature films and even cartoons, their talent is undeniable. Stan and Ollie were true showbiz legends who featured in hundred of films before teaming up together. Laurel & Hardy: Premium Collector's Editionįrom their separate careers as comic actors in the early years of silent filmmaking, to the formation of the comedy duo that saw them conquer the globe, this is the true story of Arthur Stanley Jefferson and Norvell 'Babe' Hardy, the world's greatest comedy double act better known to us all as Laurel & Hardy!
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