Movies 'Til Dawn Blog

LAUREL & HARDY SILENT-FEST; ‘ANGORA LOVE’

‘Angora Love’ (1929) was Laurel and Hardy’s last silent film and, was, in fact, the last silent film released by MGM. (Garbo’s ‘The Kiss’ was the last silent feature the studio released, one month prior to this film). Shot in March of 1929, the release was inexplicably delayed until all

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LAUREL & HARDY SILENT-FEST; ‘THE FINISHING TOUCH’

The Finishing Touch was filmed in November and December 1927 in an area undergoing real estate development ; its wide open spaces provide a sense of a more pastoral Los Angeles that would soon vanish as more structures filled it in. We are on location in the neighborhood of Cheviot Hills, Los

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LAUREL & HARDY SILENT-FEST; ‘BIG BUSINESS’

There are certain movie sets of the past that I yearn to be a visitor on. ‘Kane’, of course. ‘Casablanca’, most definitely. But if I were to choose a silent film to watch being filmed it would without a doubt be ‘Big Business’. The film is probably L&H’s most famous

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LAUREL & HARDY SILENT-FEST; ‘DUCK SOUP’

How I love ‘lost films’. Especially when they resurface! There’s something so ghostly, so other-worldly, about a vanished movie that is, in fact, waiting patiently somewhere bizarre to be rediscovered. Many lost films turn up in New Zealand of all places. That’s because that was the last stop for prints

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LAUREL & HARDY SILENT-FEST: ‘HABEUS CORPUS’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgGhc2PglO0 ‘Habeus Ciorpus’ co-directed by Leo McCarey and James Parrott was filmed on July 16–24 and 30–31, 1928. Since the jerk-offf who posted the film disabled the sharing of it on other websites you’ll have to click the above ‘watch on Youtube’ link to see it.  It’s worth the not

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LAUREL & HARDY SILENT-FEST #3: ‘TWO TARS’

“Two Tars” (1928) is, for my money, the teams greatest silent film and requires two viewings. To that end, I’ve posted two different versions of ‘Two Tars’. The above is of lesser picture quality but uses the original synchronized score/effects track which is far superior to the re-do on the

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LAUREL & HARDY SILENT-FEST DAY 3; “HATS OFF”

“Hats Off”, a silent 1927 Laurel and Hardy comedy, is a lost film. It was last seen in Germany in 1930, where it presumably retired itself to the countryside and hopefully didn’t wind up a victim of the coming war. Why the film vanished is a mystery–there are no other

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LAUREL & HARDY SILENT-FEST (DAY 7!)

Yesterday I posted ‘Putting Pants On Phillip’ (1927),, the first film in which Laurel and Hardy are paired as a team even though they play characters unassociated with each other prior to their on-screen meeting. Today’s silent L&H, ‘Do Detectives Think?’ (also 1927) is their following film and the first

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LAUREL AND HARDY SILENT-FEST–DAY 6

‘Putting Pants On Phillip’ (1927) is the first official teaming of Laurel and Hardy, though they had appeared in a handful of films together prior to this (but not as a team). They’re not really a team here either which makes this silent comedy a real curiosity. Laurel plays a

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