Product Details

• Format: Black & White, Silent, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: March 28, 2000
• Run Time: 23 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004REP3
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #44,841 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)

  #40 in	Video > Classics > Silent Films > Comedy
  #18 in	Video > Comedy > By Year > 1920-1929

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

A rich guy is looking for two meticulous craftsmen to finish up his fancy new home. Unfortunately for him, he winds up with Laurel and Hardy. When they aren't busy irritating each other, they are busy irritating the nervous occupants of a once-quiet hospital situated just across the street. And, when they aren't busy injuring themselves, they are heaping bruises and indignities upon the local cop on the beat, the always-steaming Edgar Kennedy. A hysterical look at the first of the Laurel and Hardy "laborer" comedies, "The Finishing Touch" is as funny today as it was seven decades ago.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The finishing touch - a touch of comedy, June 15, 2000

By	Mr. Bill Burgess (Alliance, OHio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Laurel & Hardy: Finishing Touch (Silent) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The film is wonderful and worth seeing - the quality and price are just right for my collection of L&H films.

The boys build a house - if you can call it that.

Released Febraury 25, 1928 the film is not dated in the fact that builders are builders even today.

With side kick Edgar Kennedy as a cop the boys are at their best. Their usual method of destruction with comic over tones can be seen here with the throwing of rocks and stepping and swollowing of nails. It is an above average entry rated 3 out of 4 derbies by the L&H books and rates high also by the scholars. Of many of the newer releases it is an average print quality and can be easy on the eyes unlike some of the films I've viewed that are of this same era.

For fans of the team this is a Great addition.

5.0 out of 5 stars The house that Laurel & Hardy built, January 9, 2010

By	M. Shepherd "Midwest" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Laurel & Hardy: Finishing Touch (Silent) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

How would you like to live in a house built by Laurel & Hardy? There are some really good gags in this silent film. For example
you see Stan go past the camera with one end of a very long board, and much to Ollie`s amazement Stan is also lugging the other
end of it.
The boys have a couple of run ins along the way with everyone`s favorite keystone cop, Edger Kennedy, and with a very unhappy
nurse from the local hospital who thinks they are making too much noise.
Dispite their best efforts the house is somehow completed on time and the happy owner gives them the bonus he promised them.
Then all look on in horror as a bird lands on the house and it colapses into ruin.
A very funny L&H silent film. It`s a pitty that the silent Laurel & Hardy`s are so hard to find. Many of them are outstanding
comedies.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Complete Part of their Laughing 20s, January 31, 2006

By	John Profetto (Hamilton, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Laurel & Hardy: Finishing Touch (Silent) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is definetly one of their best films.I have a large poster on my bedroom wall that shows Stan and Ollie in a scene from this very film.