Comedies involving Stan Laurel
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This section is for comedies involving Stan Laurel as an actor, director or writer. By default the movies are presented starting with those ranking highest on the laugh-o-meter, but you can also sort them by year, title or IMDB rating.
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Stan Laurel is said to have been born on Monday 16 June 1890 and to have died on Tuesday 23 February 1965, at the age of 74 years, 8 months and 6 days.
Titles involving Stan Laurel sorted by Laugh-o-meter (descending)
Stan Laurel was credited as
actor in the following film.
At the time, he would have been about
39 years old.
Liberty
1929 |
USA | Laughs: 9.2 (Laugh Out Loud) |
imdb: 7.6
wikipedia |
who was involved?
For me, this short film (all of twenty minutes) is the funniest by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy by far. Like Harold Lloyd's
Safety Last (only six years later), it's humor in high places… and I have a severe fear of heights! One of the few Laurel & Hardy films that doesn't rely on violence for comic effect. Intoxicating: I'm still laughing as I watch this. From reading
other reviews, it seems the film has the same effect on others.
(Last viewed: July 2010)
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Stan Laurel was credited as
actor in the following film.
At the time, he would have been about
48 years old.
Block-Heads
1938 |
USA | Laughs: 8.1 (Laugh and Smile) |
imdb: 7.6
wikipedia |
who was involved?
Brought back from the trenches twenty years after the war, Stan Laurel enters the apartment of his old friend Oliver Hardy on the day of his first wedding anniversary. Everything goes delightfully wrong. The funniest Laurel & Hardy movie I've watched, by far. I like that this film is not as violent as most others by Laurel & Hardy, films whose humor largely relies on Oliver getting hurt.
(Last viewed: February 2010)
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Stan Laurel was credited as
writer and
actor in the following film.
At the time, he would have been about
43 years old.
Sons of the Desert
1933 |
USA | Laughs: 5.7 (Watch Once) |
imdb: 7.6
wikipedia |
who was involved?
This is supposed to be one of Laurel & Hardy's funniest feature films (with
Way out West and
Block Heads), and it's worth a watch, if only for historical reasons. Two men lie to their wives to travel to Chicago for the national convention of their men's club, "Sons of the Desert". There's not a lot to make you laugh, but there's a lot to make you smile. I guess thick caricatures have had their day in the sun—maybe we've moved a bit past that. I did laugh in the last minute, when you see the different fate that awaits the two husbands. As Stan explains, "honesty is the best politics".
(Last viewed: September 2010)
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Stan Laurel was credited as
actor in the following film.
At the time, he would have been about
47 years old.
Way Out West
1937 |
USA | Laughs: 5.7 (Watch Once) |
imdb: 7.6
wikipedia |
who was involved?
Two companions travel to a pioneer town to find the daughter of a deceased miner and give her the deed to her father's gold mine. They get swindled by an unscrupulous couple. Produced by Stan Laurel, this film is probably one of the best "Laurel & Hardy" features (though far behind
Block Heads). There is not much to laugh at, but there is lots to make you smile, from the cute music scenes to the flying mule and the ignitable thumb. I also appreciate that it is not as violent as most Laurel & Hardy shorts. Only an hour long, worth a watch.
(Last viewed: September 2010)
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Stan Laurel was credited as
actor in the following film.
At the time, he would have been about
38 years old.
The Finishing Touch and Other Laurel & Hardy Shorts
1928 |
USA | Laughs: 5.6 (Watch Once) |
imdb: 7.3
wikipedia |
who was involved?
The humor in most Laurel & Hardy shorts rests on Hardy getting poked in the eye, and that doesn't really make me laugh. However, five of these shorts stand above the rest (no pun intended). The first,
Liberty, is on my list of funniest comedies ever, and will keep you laughing into your golden years. The four others bear watching once:
The Finishing Touch, where Laurel and Hardy are hired to finish building a house;
Hog Wild, for the scene where Hardy balances at the top of a ladder;
Them Thar Hills, where the pair goes camping in a caravan; and
Tit for Tat, where they open an electrical shop and run into trouble with the neighboring grocer, whom they had already met in
Them Thar Hills.
(Last viewed: July 2010)
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