THE LOST FILMS OF LAUREL AND HARDY BIG BUSINESS & LIBERTY RARE LASER DISC
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:8406351 | Format: Laserdisc |
| Edition: Full Screen | Non-Domestic Product: No |
| Special Features: Black & White | Modified Item: No |
| Genre: Comedy | Actor: Laurel and Hardy |
| Sub-Genre: Slapstick |
THIS IS A LASERDISCThis is the laser disc edition of:
"THE LOST FILMS OF LAUREL AND HARDY"
"BIG BUSINESS" & "LIBERTY"
LIBERTY:
This Laurel and Hardy short film has a thin plot but plenty of laughs. The two have escaped from prison, but the guards are hot on their tail. Some confederates pick them up, and Stan and Ollie change out of their prison uniforms in the car while a motorcycle policeman pursues them. In their haste, they put on the wrong pants, but the...y manage to elude the police. For most of the rest of the film, they try to find a inconspicuous place to switch their pants. Future star Jean Harlow has an early bit part as a lady who attempts to enter a taxi while the boys are without trousers. They finally get their pants switched, but find themselves on a construction elevator which takes them up to the top of a skyscraper. Now, they have to find their way back down to the ground without falling.
BIG BUSINESS:
Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) are selling Christmas trees door-to-door. Stan unintentionally insults their first customer (a single woman) when he asks, "If you had a husband, would he buy a tree?" The second house has a sign up that says "No Peddlers." Ollie rings the bell anyway and gets a couple of knocks on the head with a hammer. When they come to Jimmy Finlayson's (James Finlayson) house, he tells them that he doesn't want a tree, and he closes the door -- on a tree branch. They ring the bell again, and Finlayson says that he still doesn't want a tree. He closes the door again, and Stan's coat is stuck in it. So they ring the bell again. Soon, tempers begin to flare, and the orgy of destruction starts small. Finlayson chops their tree in half and cuts Ollie's tie with scissors. Laurel and Hardy rip out Finlayson's phone and the doorbell. By the end of the movie, Finlayson has destroyed our boys' trees and their car. They have smashed his furniture, dug up his yard, and cut down all of his landscaping, as a crowd forms to watch the spectacle.
One disc and jacket in near mint condition (minimal shelf wear, several minor spine bends, still in open shrink wrap -- see photo.)
Presented in a fullscreen B&W transfer.
$5.50 for Media Mail shipping with Tracking. Shipped in a laserdisc cardboard mailer.
Combined shipping available on laser discs, add $0.50 per disc to the shipping cost of the first item.
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"THE LOST FILMS OF LAUREL AND HARDY"
"BIG BUSINESS" & "LIBERTY"
LIBERTY:
This Laurel and Hardy short film has a thin plot but plenty of laughs. The two have escaped from prison, but the guards are hot on their tail. Some confederates pick them up, and Stan and Ollie change out of their prison uniforms in the car while a motorcycle policeman pursues them. In their haste, they put on the wrong pants, but the...y manage to elude the police. For most of the rest of the film, they try to find a inconspicuous place to switch their pants. Future star Jean Harlow has an early bit part as a lady who attempts to enter a taxi while the boys are without trousers. They finally get their pants switched, but find themselves on a construction elevator which takes them up to the top of a skyscraper. Now, they have to find their way back down to the ground without falling.
BIG BUSINESS:
Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) are selling Christmas trees door-to-door. Stan unintentionally insults their first customer (a single woman) when he asks, "If you had a husband, would he buy a tree?" The second house has a sign up that says "No Peddlers." Ollie rings the bell anyway and gets a couple of knocks on the head with a hammer. When they come to Jimmy Finlayson's (James Finlayson) house, he tells them that he doesn't want a tree, and he closes the door -- on a tree branch. They ring the bell again, and Finlayson says that he still doesn't want a tree. He closes the door again, and Stan's coat is stuck in it. So they ring the bell again. Soon, tempers begin to flare, and the orgy of destruction starts small. Finlayson chops their tree in half and cuts Ollie's tie with scissors. Laurel and Hardy rip out Finlayson's phone and the doorbell. By the end of the movie, Finlayson has destroyed our boys' trees and their car. They have smashed his furniture, dug up his yard, and cut down all of his landscaping, as a crowd forms to watch the spectacle.
One disc and jacket in near mint condition (minimal shelf wear, several minor spine bends, still in open shrink wrap -- see photo.)
Presented in a fullscreen B&W transfer.
$5.50 for Media Mail shipping with Tracking. Shipped in a laserdisc cardboard mailer.
Combined shipping available on laser discs, add $0.50 per disc to the shipping cost of the first item.
00107
