Any other great Laurel & Hardy SILENT shorts beside "Big Business", "Bacon Grabber"...

I really liked those two!

I also watched "The Music Box". It's great, and I adore their voices, but I thought there was too much over-the-top physical violence in it. Like I found the violent gestures between L & H to be sometimes gratuitous, unwarranted. I thought the acting and dynamics between the two in the silent ones I watched were more subtle, like they're friends in fact (and so won't poke each other in the eyes!)...

 

I would suggest "The Finishing Touch", probably my second favorite of the silents behind "Big Business". Ollie definitely takes a pounding, but I wouldn't call it violence (more like consequences of stupidity).

 

Two Tars! Two Tars!

 

Speaking of pants (and destruction thereof), you can't go wrong with You're Darn Tootin'.

 

Seconded!

 

I love Double Whoopee

 

That was terrific! The pants business is hilarious and somewhat risqué! The skyscraper shooting is wonderful - I understand from a review at IMDb that there was a safety platform or something atop an existing house. You fear for the actors/characters because back in those days, that stuntless stuff just may have been likely!

 

Any silent L&H is worth viewing in my opinion - comedy gold. Hopefully these films will be fully restored to the extent possible and be released to DVD. I have the Image releases but that are a mixed bag with absurdly low bit rates.

 

BRATS where they play themselves as both parents and children.

 

Always loved Laughing Gravy, I even named one of my dogs after it.

 

Yes, I agree, "Liberty" was pretty incredible...its easy to see why the audiences of the 20s and 30s went wild for L&H.

As for the Safety aspect of that shoot, I'm sure they had a safety platform beneath them, but in some points of the film, it looks like they were beyond it. Hopefully it was just the angle of the camera.

I really liked the scene of the record store.....Wind up Record players!! The good old days.

 

Wrong Again.

 

OOPS! That's what happens when you post before the first coffee of the morning...

 

Their Purple Moment.

Just yesterday I digitized my L&H laserdiscs and plan to watch them on DVD.

 

There is a silent version of the Laughing Gravy story but with a goat. Angora Love (1929)

 

>>Free records with this machine<< lol!

Smart marketing!

 

Even the titles put a smile on my face. With Love and Hisses, Laughing Gravy, Double Whoopee, We Faw Down, etc. I've dropped "Double Whoopee" into a sentence a few times this week to the bemused puzzlement of coworkers.

 

Stolen Jools is also great

 

I just watched this one having the morning coffee. First time since childhood; it played often in one of those late PM tv shows for the kids back from school, and I loved it! Still do!

 

"Slipping Wives", though straying from the L&H-as-pals-on-the-road formula, ain't so bad. Watch Ollie giving Stan a bath... LOL!