“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
Let’s enjoy the last week of 2024 by spending twenty minutes a day with Laurel and Hardy in the late 1920s. If you love L&H (and lets face it, you have to be a bit of a hard case not too) you undoubtedly know their early-to-mid 1930s sound shorts. Since
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
‘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
Sorry to have skipped a day, but not doing stuff is what Boxing Day is all about, right? Anyway, here’s a 1928 Laurel & Hardy silent called ‘The Finishing Touch’. The plot is beyond simple. L&H have inexplicably been hired to build a house. A cop and a woman who
‘That’s My Wife’ (1929), a late silent L&H short, traffics not only in cross-dressing but also in simulated male on she-male sex and some hard-core early punk dance grooves. I can’t explain it any further. Watch and enjoy an immaculately restored print of this wildly inappropriate outing as we continue