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Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
7.9 / 10• 1965• 1h 31m•NR• English
Comedy
Storyline
A compilation of primarly Laurel and Hardy shorts---From Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting the Pants on Philip, The Finishing Touch, Sugar Daddies and short clips from others---plus Max Davidson's Call of the Cuckoo and Dumb Daddies, with some cross-over Charley Chase footage, which, along with Robert Youngson's previous "The Golden Age of Comedy", "When Comedy Was King", "Days of Thrills and Laughter", led to a renewed interest in and a revival of television showings of Laurel and Hardy shorts. The cast was billed in order of their appearance: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Vivien Oakland (with a Vivian typo), Glen Tyron, Edna Murphy, Anita Garvin, Tiny Sanford, Jimmy Finlayson, Charlie Chase, Viola Richard, Max Davidson, Del Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Anders Randolf (as Anders Randolph), Edgar Kennedy, Dorothy Coburn, Lillian Elliott and "Spec" O'Donnell.
Cast & Crew
JJ
Jay Jackson
Narrator
Lead
Stan Laurel
Stan (archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
Ollie (archive footage)
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Robert Youngson's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
