New on Blu-ray: LAUREL AND HARDY - THE RESTORED FEATURES VOL. 1 (Pardon Us / Pack Up Your Troubles)

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Product Description: Remastered and beautifully restored, the first two feature films of the most beloved comedy team in movie history are making their Blu-ray debut from ClassicFlix in Laurel and Hardy - The Restored Features, Volume 1.

During the mid-1920s, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were both hard working comedians for producer Hal Roach making silent movie audiences laugh—but doing so as individual actors. The duo started performing as a team in 1927s Putting Pants on Philip, and before long their two-reel comedies were leading the pack at Roach fueled by their great popularity with moviegoers. Four years later, Roach gave the pair a shot at features and this collection contains their first two: Pardon Us (1931, theatrical version) and Pack Up Your Troubles (1932).

Restored by ClassicFlix, Pardon Us finds Stan and Ollie as guests of the state (prison) after foolishly selling a policeman some of their homemade beer. A spoof of the acclaimed MGM prison drama The Big House (1930), Pardon features many of the wonderful supporting actors who worked on the Roach lot including June Marlowe, James Finlayson, Walter Long, Wilfred Lucas, Tiny Sandford, Harry Bernard, Otto Fries and Charlie Hall.

Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, Pack Up Your Troubles finds The Boys overseas during World War I and letting loose with their patented brand of comic mayhem. Their favorite nemesis (Finlayson) returns, and is joined by Don Dillaway, Jacquie Lynn, Mary Carr, Richard Cramer, Tom Kennedy, Charles Middleton, Grady Sutton, Billy Gilbert, as well as co-director George Marshall who makes an on-screen appearance as a vengeful Army chef!

NOTE: Over the decades, Pardon Us has been available in many different cuts and lengths, while the 55 minute original theatrical version has been missing on home video and proved to be the Holy Grail to many Laurel and Hardy fans. The version presented in this volume is the original theatrical version, cut-by-cut, exactly as released to theaters in 1931.

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STAN & OLLIE (2018) - Trailers, TV Spots, Clips, Featurettes, Images and Posters

"Stan & Ollie" is a biopic directed by Jon S. Baird ("Filth") from a screenplay by Academy Award-nominted writer Jeff Pope ("Philomena"). The film is based on the later years of the lives of legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, played by Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, and it focuses on their grueling variety hall tour of Britain in 1953. Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston, Nina Arianda and Rufus Jones co-star.

"Stan & Ollie" opened in limited release in theaters on December 28, 2018 in the U.S., followed by its debut in the U.K. on January 11, 2019. John C. Reilly was nominated at the 76th Golden Globe Awards for his performance, and the film also received three BAFTA nominations, including Best British Film.

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