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Laurel & Hardy Classic Collection - Spooktacular [VHS]

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SPOOKTACULARS showcases four shorts from Laurel & Hardy's golden Hal Roach Studios years. (VHS only)

In DIRTY WORK, they're chimney sweeps who manage to destroy a professor's living room.

In THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE, Stan's deceased uncle leaves him a huge estate. When the boys arrive for the will reading, they learn that Stan is a prime suspect in the old man's mysterious demise.

THE LIVE GHOST is a seafaring yarn of a hijacked crew on a haunted ship piloted by a captain willing to do bodily harm to the first man who says the word "ghost." A drunken swab falls into a vat of whitewash, causing Stan & Ollie to shout out the "magic" word.

OLIVER THE EIGHTH is the unsuspecting Ollie, who answers a personal ad placed by a rich but crazy widow with a penchant for bumping off husbands named "Oliver."

BONUS: Home movie footage and photos of the boys at work and play, collected and narrated by Stan's daughter, Lois Laurel. (Note: this material is primarily Stan's amateur films of a kids' birthday party and such.)


LAUREL & HARDY CLASSICS COLLECTION - ON THE LAM features these shorts: Another Fine Mess (1930), Going Bye Bye (1934), One Good Turn (1931), Scram! (1932). (VHS only)


Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.

(7.5) Dirty Work (1933) - Stan Laurel/Oliver Hardy (uncredited: Lucien Littlefield/Sam Adams)

(7.1) The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) - Stan Laurel/Oliver Hardy/Fred Kelsey/Dell Henderson/Frank Austin/Tiny Sandford/Stanley Blystone

(7.2) The Live Ghost (1934) - Stan Laurel/Oliver Hardy/Walter Long/Mae Busch/Charlie Hall/Arthur Housman/Leo Willis

(7.1) Oliver the Eighth (1934) - Stan Laurel/Oliver Hardy/Mae Busch/Jack Barty

The Live Ghost finds the boys on a ghost ship. The action really starts when they (mistakenly) believe that they accidently
killed one of the crew.

In Dirty Work the boys are hired to clean a chimny. This one has some great gags in it. Including Stan brutally murdering a clock
with a shovel. The rest of the house, and Ollie don`t fare too much better.

Oliver The Eighth finds Ollie involved with a crazy woman who kills men named Oliver. He is to be her 8th victim. But don`t worry,
he has Stan to protect him.

The Laurel & Hardy Murder Case is one of their weakest films. But even this one has some good laughs in it.

I ordered this for a friend who does not have a computer. He has enjoyed the movie.