Movies: Oliver Hardy

Experience Stan and Ollie in their funniest scenes: whether they build a house as construction workers or try to impress two young ladies as sailors. Watch as Stan fights a superior opponent in the boxing ring and as Ollie is taking an involuntary ba...

Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a wanted thief who has stolen a valuable brooch....

Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy....

A tramp enters a cabaret and orders a drink, but then is thrown out when he cannot pay for it. After trying again, he is told by the manager that if he wants to avoid being charged and sent to jail, he will have to work....

This film, with Larry as a dry agent, pokes fun at the situations which the Prohibition Act produced throughout the country....

Only known footage of the German language version of Pardon Us (1931) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy....

The film opens in the lobby of a small hotel, where the desk clerk/owner (Budd Ross) is addressing three members of staff: the cook, the waiter and the bellboy. It is obvious from their reactions, particularly the cook (Leo White) that whatever was ...

A 1915 silent comedy....

Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief...

A comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin's "Easy Street" (1917)....

Promo for MGM's upcoming 1935-36 releases hosted by Laurel & Hardy and Jimmy Finlayson. Brief clips are shown from Rose Marie, Anna Karenina, Broadway Melody, China Seas, The Great Ziegfield and others. Don't miss a few seconds from the 1935 version ...

A compilation of some of Laurel and Hardy's best gags, including scenes from "Angora Love" (1929)," "You're Darn Tootin'" (1928), "Liberty" (1929), "The Battle Of The Century" (1927), with updated scores and sound effects....

Lucien Littlefield is a dentist who believes in giving generous doses of laughing gas to the patients. On this occasion when a girl arrives at his office with an aching molar, he administers even more than the usual quantity. Under the influence of t...

A 1925 silent comedy....

Ollie is a love-struck private who is drilled by his unsympathetic lieutenant at reveille. The colonel of the regiment wants his daughter to marry the lieutenant but she has her heart set on the chubby-faced Hardy, who himself is in love with another...

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in g...

They All Fall is a 1925 American slapstick comedy film featuring Bobby Ray & Oliver Hardy. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007....

A millionaire acquires a large diamond, said to be cursed. Despite the best efforts of his dutiful but fearful black valet (Oliver Hardy), it is stolen and kidnapped for ransom....

Here we have 'The Gown Shop', very much in Semon's usual style but with fewer laughs than usual. Semon plays his default character, a grotesque hard-working incompetent. (I'm going to be using the word 'grotesque' a lot in this particular review.) Th...

A 1916 silent comedy....