Randy Skretvedt: Laurel and Hardy: The Magic behind the Movies. Teamed for keeps during the latter 1920s as a silent-screen partnership, the nervous Englishman, Stanley Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson), and the jovial but easily exasperated Deep Southerner, Oliver Norvell Hardy, made a graceful transition to the "talkies," the added dimension of sound enhancing their routines beyond expectations. Wenn Hardy in Verlegenheit gert etwa wenn er sich irgendwo vorstellt oder in Kontakt. In fact, prison sets were borrowed from M-G-M’s blockbuster hit, THE BIG HOUSE. That "Dracula" has only recently been issued as a videocassette attraction (MCA Home Video $14.95) and become an unanticipated best seller.Īs the Depression deepened, Hal Roach's independent, MGM-affiliated film company found its greatest domestic and international cash cow to be the Laurel & Hardy act. DE BOTE EN BOTE (meaning from cell to cell) is the re-filmed adaptation, in Spanish, of the initial Laurel & Hardy feature film, PARDON US (in some countries known as JAILBIRDS), a spoof of the prison films cycle so popular at the time. Universal Pictures, for example, filmed a separate "Dracula" (1931) in Spanish. When a ritzy couple shows up as prospective tenants, Ollie poses as the grandiose owner, while Stan demonstrates his versatility. There is also an alternative colourised version of this film. Fleeing from a policeman, two vagrants duck into a deserted mansion. So in quite a few instances, the Hollywood studios, anxious to maintain the lucrative export market, would shoot distinct, simultaneous remakes of their likelier hits. 6: Murder in the Air - Classic shorts The Laurel - Hardy Murder Case - 1930- Very nice version with original titles, clear sound and picture. And subtitling was an unfashionable hangover from the silent screen.
Soundtrack dubbing, after all, was a treacherous craft in the primitive phase of widespread sound-on-film technology, the early 1930s.
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