Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years 1929 (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray] (Masters of Cinema)

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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star in this collection of their final silent comedy shorts filmed in 1929 as they transitioned from silent films to sound. The shorts are: 'Liberty', 'Wrong Again', 'That's My Wife', 'Big Business', 'Unaccustomed As We Are', 'Double Whoopee', 'Berth Marks', 'Bacon Grabbers' and 'Angora Love'.

Region B

This is a UK import. As Australia and New Zealand share Region B with the UK, it will play on any standard Blu-ray player in Australia and New Zealand.
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Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Director: Clyde Bruckman, Emmett J. Flynn, Fred L. Guiol, Edgar Kennedy, Leo McCarey, James Parrott
Format: Blu-ray
Languages: Silent - English intertitles
Subtitles:
Number of Discs: 2
Run Time: 181 minutes
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 20 July 2026

  • Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Scott Saslow
  • Limited edition collector's booklet featuring newly written notes on each film by writer and comedian Paul Merton and a new essay on frequent Laurel & Hardy collaborator James Finlayson by silent cinema expert Chris Grosvenor
  • 1080p HD presentations on Blu-ray from 2K restorations by Blackhawk Films of Liberty, Wrong Again, That's My Wife, Big Business, Unaccustomed as We Are, Double Whoopee, Berth Marks, Bacon Grabbers and Angora Love
  • Scores by Robert Israel (Angora Love, Big Business and Double Whoopee), Neil Brand (Bacon Grabbers, Wrong Again and That's My Wife), Andreas Benz (That's My Wife, Unaccustomed as We Are and Berth Marks), Maud Nelissen (Big Business, Liberty) and Gaylord Carter (Big Business)
  • New audio commentaries on Liberty and Berth Marks by film writer Chris Seguin and Kyp Harness, author of The Art of Laurel & Hardy: Graceful Calamity in the Films
  • New audio commentaries on Double Whoopee, Unaccustomed As We Are and Wrong Again by film historian and writer David Kalat
  • New audio commentaries on Big Business and Angora Love by silent film accompanist Neil Brand
  • New audio commentaries on That's My Wife and Bacon Grabbers by Glenn Mitchell, author of The Laurel and Hardy Encyclopedia
  • Audio commentaries on Angora Love and Unaccustomed As We Are by Chris Seguin and Patrick Vasey, editor of The Laurel & Hardy Magazine and host of The Laurel & Hardy Podcast
  • Alternate musical scores on select shorts including the Robert Youngson score for Liberty, newly restored by Stephen Horne
  • Unaccustomed As We Are alternate sound version
  • Alternate dubbed version of Double Whoopee
  • 1929 sound shorts They Go Boom! and The Hoose-Gow, with optional audio commentaries by Chris Seguin and Kyp Harness
  • Glorious Disaster (49 mins) – new documentary by David Cairns and Fiona Watson
  • The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (excerpt)
  • Spanish Version of Berth Marks (fragment)
  • The Tree in a Test Tube – 1942 short film featuring Laurel & Hardy, with optional audio commentary by Chris Seguin
  • Hop to It! – 1925 silent short featuring Oliver Hardy, with optional audio commentary by David Kalat
  • From Silent to Radio – archive of Laurel & Hardy audio appearances including "The Wedding Night" (1943), "Mr Slater's Poultry Market" (1944) and an advert for the National War Disabled Association (1947)
  • Crazy Heights – alternate Super 8 version of Liberty
  • Super 8 versions of Big Business, Double Whoopee, Angora Love and The Hoose-Gow
  • 16mm silent version of Unaccustomed as We Are
  • Newsreel footage of Laurel & Hardy
  • Stills Galleries

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