The Stan Laurel Collection 2 (Slapstick Symposium) (2 disc) George Jeske Digital Life DVD

The Stan Laurel Collection 2 (Slapstick Symposium) (2 disc)
starring: Stan Laurel, Larry Semon
directed by: George Jeske

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329061623
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Manufacturer: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 03, 2008
Running Time: 355 minutes
Sales Rank: 58142
Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL

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Twenty-One Comedy Shorts From 1918-1926 on Two DVDs.

Prior to forming a fruitful partnership with funny man Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel was a slapstick headliner in his own right. This two-DVD set continues Kino International s monumental tribute to Stan Laurel with twenty-one slapstick classics, painstakingly restored by Paris s Lobster Films. Beginning with Huns and Hyphens (1918, in which Laurel plays a supporting role to Larry Semon), the collection follows Laurel s rapid rise to stardom, passing through Hal Roach s stable of master comedians to carve out his own big-screen niche. In addition to playing the inept everyman wreaking havoc in a variety of domestic and professional situations, Laurel often starred in elaborate parodies of popular films, including Mud and Sand (1922, posing as Rhubarb Vaselino), the desert adventure Under Two Jags (1923) and Rupert of Hee-Haw (1924, spoofing the now-forgotten Rupert of Hentzau).

DVD 1

Huns and Hyphens - 1918 - 19 Min.
Just Rambling Along - 1918 - 9 Min.
Frauds and Frenzies - 1918 - 21 Min.
Do You Love Your Wife? - 1919 - 13 Min.
Hustling for Health 1919 - 12 Min.
The Egg 1922 - 22 Min.
Mud and Sand - 1922 - 29 Min.
The Noon Whistle - 1923 - 11 Min.
White Wings - 1923 - 11 Min.
Under Two Jags - 1923 - 11 Min.
Pick and Shovel - 1923 - 13 Min.
Kill or Cure - 1923 - 13 Min.

DVD 2

Short Orders - 1923 - 12 Min.
A Man About Town - 1923 - 12 Min.
Smithy - 1924 - 24 Min.
Rupert of Hee Haw - 1924 - 23 Min.
Mandarin Mix-Up - 1924 - 21 Min.
Detained - 1924 - 14 Min.
Somewhere in Wrong - 1925 - 22 Min.
Pie-Eyed - 1925 - 20 Min.
Get Em Young - 1926 - 23 Min.

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- "Stan Laurel alone with his crazy self."
I borrowed this set from Netflix in early September, following the Laurel and Hardy marathon Saturday on Turner Classic Movies in late August. I couldn't resist, and had to order my own dvd set. Boy, am I glad I own them!

As you already know from the reviews here, these two-reelers feature Stan Laurel before his later teaming with Oliver Hardy. Although I prefer Laurel together with Hardy, his solo turns here are quite funny. And his persona is more on the manic, crazy side before becoming the calmer, dim-witted crybaby Stan we all know and love. This solo Stan Laurel is quite loveable, too. In many of the shorts, Stan often smiles broadly, flashing those cute large teeth of his. I like to nickname him 'Toothy' as he constantly laughs at himself and his mishaps.

Stan is a pretty good physical comedian, too. His pratfalls come close to Buster Keaton's - although Buster had that ... Read More

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- More Stan Laurel Treasures to savour!
This is Volume#2(two disc set) of the Kino "Slapstick Emporium" series,featuring the great Stan Laurel.Lobster films of France who produced not only Volume#1 of this series but also the highly recommended special edition "Flying Deuces",has again gone to great pains to bring out a product both they and the buying public can be proud of.There are 21 shorts here ranging from 1918 up to 1926 and most are in the best shape I have ever seen them in.The majority(as in Vol#1)delightfully come with most of their original title and inter-title cards in tact;just great to see.
The only entry of lesser distinction,technically speaking, is "Mud and Sand" the take off on the Valentino film "Blood and Sand".This print is just about the same as I have ever seen it.It seems to be a poor dupe of a multi generational print,but Lobster films has at least tried to improve the contrast and detail as much as it will allow.
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- Better Than The First Set.
Kino's new 2 disc set of Stan Laurel comedies in their ongoing SLAPSTICK SYMPOSIUM series is better than the earlier set which was released in 2004. Whereas that set concentrated on the mid 1920s comedies, this one features a broader overview of Stan's career starting in 1918 and chronologically going up to 1926 just before his teaming with Oliver Hardy. By doing this we get to watch Stan evolve from supporting then star comic Larry Semon (who would later use Oliver Hardy) to one of the best gag comedians in the business.

The early Semon shorts (HUNS AND HYPHENS, FRAUDS AND FRENZIES) introduce the derby hatted Stan who in F&F is very much like his later self. We then go through the Hal Roach Pathe' series and the Joe Rock produced Stan Laurel Comedies and get to witness the recycling of gags that would reach their final form with Laurel & Hardy. In particular there are a number of construction gags ... Read More

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- Solo Stan
By the time the last short in this two-disc set was released, that is, 1926, 36 year-old Arthur Stanley Jefferson (aka Stan Laurel), fearing his acting career was going nowhere, had signed on as writer/director at Hal Roach studios. And so he might have remained, if not for a kitchen injury to a Roach contract player named Oliver Hardy. Because of this accident, Stan was asked to go back in front of the camera. Soon after, he and Hardy made their first official appearance as a team, in DUCK SOUP (1927). The film's success, as well as the many other Roach shorts to follow, brought Stan and Ollie international fame.

KINO's STAN LAUREL COLLECTION presents almost a third of the 65 comedies Laurel appeared in prior to his teaming with Mr. Hardy. The pantomimic skills and unique facial expressions evident throughout these somewhat ordinary shorts give no indication of the superstardom that awaited Stan.

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