Laurel & Hardy - The Knockabout Collection DVD
The Big Noise:
The duo play janitors accidentally hired as sleuths to protect a new super-bomb destined for the War Department in Washington, D.C. However, the bomb's inventor has loaded his house with crazy contraptions that entrap and confuse the protectors. Meanwhile, next door is the biggest threat of all - a gang of crooks determined to get their hands on the inventor's deadly creation. Through a series of crazy misadventures, our heroes end up in a remote-controlled airplane, along with the bomb, and headed straight for trouble!
Jitterbugs:
Stan and Oliver star as a traveling two-man jitterbug band, who operate out of a dilapidated jalopy and form an unlikely partnership with a likable con man (Bob Bailey). When the trio joins a carnival, they meet Susan, a naive young singer (Vivian Blaine), whose mother has been swindled by grifters. Suddenly chivalrous, the three orchestrate a sting operation using disguises - with Laurel dressed as Susan's disheveled aunt and Hardy as a rich Texan - to get the woman's money back. Although things don't go as planned, the inimitable comedy duo provide nonstop laughs from start to finish in this delightful caper.
Great Guns:
In Great Guns, the comic team play a chauffeur and a gardener whose hypochondriac employer (Dick Nelson), a wealthy young man with little experience, is drafted. Convinced that he needs them in order to survive in the service, they join up as well. Of course, the Texas cavalry post to which they're all assigned is made far worse for the wear by the presence of these well-meaning troublemakers, and there is never a dull moment in this classic featuring two of the cinema's most revered comic actors!
The duo play janitors accidentally hired as sleuths to protect a new super-bomb destined for the War Department in Washington, D.C. However, the bomb's inventor has loaded his house with crazy contraptions that entrap and confuse the protectors. Meanwhile, next door is the biggest threat of all - a gang of crooks determined to get their hands on the inventor's deadly creation. Through a series of crazy misadventures, our heroes end up in a remote-controlled airplane, along with the bomb, and headed straight for trouble!
Jitterbugs:
Stan and Oliver star as a traveling two-man jitterbug band, who operate out of a dilapidated jalopy and form an unlikely partnership with a likable con man (Bob Bailey). When the trio joins a carnival, they meet Susan, a naive young singer (Vivian Blaine), whose mother has been swindled by grifters. Suddenly chivalrous, the three orchestrate a sting operation using disguises - with Laurel dressed as Susan's disheveled aunt and Hardy as a rich Texan - to get the woman's money back. Although things don't go as planned, the inimitable comedy duo provide nonstop laughs from start to finish in this delightful caper.
Great Guns:
In Great Guns, the comic team play a chauffeur and a gardener whose hypochondriac employer (Dick Nelson), a wealthy young man with little experience, is drafted. Convinced that he needs them in order to survive in the service, they join up as well. Of course, the Texas cavalry post to which they're all assigned is made far worse for the wear by the presence of these well-meaning troublemakers, and there is never a dull moment in this classic featuring two of the cinema's most revered comic actors!
Specifications | |
Aspect Ratio | 1.33:1 |
Audio | English Stereo 2.0, English Psuedo Stereo 2.0, English Mono 2.0, French Mono 2.0, Italian Mono Hybrid 2.0 |
BBFC | U |
Case Type | Boxset Amaray |
Cast | Doris Merrick,Douglas Fowley,Edmund MacDonald,Ethel Griffies,Ludwig Stossel,Mae Marsh,Russell Hicks,Sheila Ryan,Stan Laurel,Kane Richmond,Lee Patrick,Irving Bacon,James Bush,Veda Ann Borg,Vivian Blaine,Noel Madison,Oliver Hardy,Paul Harvey,Pierre Watkin,Robert Bailey,Robert Blake,Robert Emmett Keane,Arthur Space,Charles Arnt,Charles Trowbridge,Dick Nelson |
Colour | Black & White |
Director | Malcolm St Clair,Monty Banks |
Discs | 3 |
Format | DVD |
HOH (Hard of Hearing) | Yes |
IFCO | G |
Language | English |
Language | French |
Language | Italian |
Region | DVD 2 |
Released | 2011-10-03 |
Run Time | 211 |
Subtitle | Danish |
Subtitle | Dutch |
Subtitle | English |
Subtitle | Finnish |
Subtitle | French |
Subtitle | Italian |
Subtitle | Norwegian |
Subtitle | Portuguese |
Subtitle | Spanish |
Subtitle | Swedish |
Subtitle | Turkish |
Year | 1941 |