Friday, August 22, 2008

TCM: Saturday All Day Laurel & Hardy UPDATED

Tomorrow (Saturday) Turner Classic Movies presents Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shorts & features all day long. The films are uncut and uninterrupted (and, usually, the best darn print available).

Below is a clip of Laurel & Hardy dancing from WAY OUT WEST. Look at the pacing. It's just a couple of minutes where no plot is moved forward, no explosions, no getting hit in the crotch -- it all reminds me of a far off time as I watch these two relaxed professional icons (wearing, of course, their suits & bowler hats in the wild west), dance a dance that's equal parts silly and elegant. (The look that Stan gives is to their off-screen mule --unseen in this clip -- who has begun tapping his hoof to the music.)



Here's the schedule of movie showings (all times EST) for the day:



6:00 AM Short Film: Night Owls (1930)

Two vagrants try to help a police officer save his reputation. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy. Dir: James Parrott. BW-21 mins,
6:25 AM Short Film: Blotto (1930)

Stan steals his wife's secret bottle of liquor so he can have a wild night out at the Rainbow club with Ollie. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-26 mins,
6:55 AM Short Film: Brats (1930)

Two fathers try to spend a quiet night despite their raucous offspring. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. Dir: James Parrott. BW-21 mins,
7:20 AM Short Film: Hog Wild (1930)

Two friends try to install a radio antenna, with disastrous results. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Fay Holderness. Dir: James Parrott. BW-19 mins,
7:45 AM Short Film: Be Big! (1931)

Two married men feign illness so they can ditch their wives and attend a lodge party. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin. Dir: James Parrott. BW-28 mins,
8:15 AM Short Film: Laughing Gravy (1931)

Roommates try to hide a dog from their grouchy landlord. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall. Dir: James W. Home. BW-31 mins,
8:50 AM Short Film: Our Wife (1931)

A man tries to help his best friend elope. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Babe London. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-21 mins,
9:15 AM Short Film: Pardon Us (1931)

Selling homemade beer lands a two friends in prison together. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe. Dir: James Parrott. BW-55 mins,
10:30 AM Short Film: One Good Turn (1931)

Two vagrants try to repay the kindly old lady who helped them. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-21 mins,
10:55 AM Short Film: Beau Hunks (1931)

After being dumped by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver makes Laurel join the Foreign Legion with him. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-37 mins,
11:35 AM Short Film: Helpmates (1932)

A married man has to get his house back in order before his wife returns. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns. Dir: James Parrott. BW-21 mins,
12:00 PM Bonnie Scotland (1935)

Two Americans in search of a Scottish inheritance wind up serving with the British in India. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Dir: James Horne. BW-81 mins, TV-G, CC
1:25 PM Short Film: Fixer Uppers, The (1935)

Comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have a no fail plan to help a jealous wife woo her husband, but somehow things go wrong. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins,
1:50 PM Them Thar Hills (1934)

When they go to the mountains for a rest to cure Ollie's gout, the two accidentally get high on moonshine dumped into the well by local moonshiners trying to evade the law. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers. BW-20 mins,
2:15 PM Tit For Tat (1935)

A Laurel and Hardy sequel to Them Thar Hills - they open an electrical repair shop and discover that their neighbor/grocer are the same couple they had a run in with in Them Thar Hills. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: Charles Rogers. BW-19 mins,
2:40 PM Short Film: Live Ghost, The (1934)

A sea captain hires comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to trick sailors into working on his supposedly haunted boat. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Dir: Charles Rogers BW-20 mins,
3:05 PM Devil's Brother, The (1933)

Two wannabe bandits are hired as servants by the real thing. Cast: Laurel & Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd. Dir: Hal Roach. BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC
4:40 PM Short Film: Me and My Pal (1933)

A groom and his best man get preoccupied with a jigsaw puzzle on their way to the wedding. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Dir: Lloyd French, Charley Rogers. BW-20 mins,
5:10 PM Short Film: Their First Mistake (1932)

After adopting a baby to save his marriage, a man discovers his wife has left him. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Dir: George Marshall. BW-21 mins,
5:35 PM Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)

Two World War I veterans try help a comrade's orphaned daughter find her family. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway. Dir: George Marshall, Ray McCarey. BW-66 mins, TV-G
6:45 PM Short Film: Scram! (1932)

Two vagrants ordered out of town take up with a drunken tycoon. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer. Dir: Ray McCarey. BW-20 mins,
7:10 PM Short Film: County Hospital (1932)

A hospital visitor wreaks havoc during a routine visit. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-19 mins,
7:30 PM Short Film: Chimp, The (1932)

A jealous husband thinks two tenants sneaking a pet chimp into their apartment are carrying on with his wife. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-25 mins,
8:00 PM Music Box, The (1932)

Two men running a moving company have to get a large piano up a daunting flight of stairs. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Dir: James Parrott. BW-29 mins, TV-G
8:35 PM Sons of the Desert (1933)

Two friends hatch a harebrained scheme to attend a lodge convention over their wives' objections. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-65 mins, TV-G
9:45 PM Way Out West (1938)

A pair of tenderfeet try to get the deed to a gold mine to its rightful owner. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynne. Dir: James W. Horne. BW-64 mins, TV-G, CC
11:00 PM Swiss Miss (1938)

When they're swindled, two salesmen have to work off their debts in a Swiss hotel. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Walter Woolf King. Dir: John G. Blystone. BW-65 mins, TV-G
12:15 AM Block-Heads (1938)

Chaos erupts when a man tries to help an old war buddy. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Minna Gombell. Dir: John G. Blystone. BW-57 mins, TV-G
1:15 AM Flying Deuces, The (1939)

Two bumblers join the Foreign Legion to forget a beautiful woman. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker. Dir: A. Edward Sutherland. BW-65 mins, TV-G
2:25 AM Chump at Oxford, A (1939)

When they accidentally capture a bank robber, two street cleaners are given a scholarship to Oxford. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardey, Wilfred Lucas. Dir: Alfred J. Goulding. BW-63 mins, TV-G, CC
3:30 AM Saps at Sea (1940)

Two factory workers accidentally set sail with an escaped killer. Cast: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, James Finlayson. Dir: Gordon M. Douglas. BW-58 mins, TV-G, CC
4:30 AM Air Raid Wardens (1943)

A pair of bumblers stumble upon Nazi spies on the home front. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy. Dir: Edward Sedgwick. BW-67 mins, TV-G, CC



UPDATE: The one and only Mark Evanier (a L&H uber-fan) posted all about this as well. He's much more knowledgeable about "the boys" than I am and he adds his own notes on all of the film descrips. Go look.

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