Laurel and Hardy Movies: The Music Box, Way Out West

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

Saturday, August 23, highlights on Turner Classic Movies:

There are some who find Laurel and Hardy painfully funny. There are others who find them merely painful. I belong to the latter group.

TCM premieres include Night Owls (1930), Brats (1930), Hog Wild (1930), Be Big! (1931), Laughing Gravy (1931), Our Wife, and The Chimp (1932).

Come next Saturday, Laurel and Hardy fans will be spending all day in front of their TV sets. I’ll be elsewhere.

23 Saturday

3:00 AM Short Film: Night Owls (1930)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy.
Director: James Parrott.
B&W. 20m

3:25 AM Short Film: Blotto (1930)
Stan steals his wife’s secret bottle of liquor so he can have a wild night out at the Rainbow club with Ollie. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-26m

3:55 AM Short Film: Brats (1930)
Two fathers try to spend a quiet night despite their raucous offspring. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. Director: James Parrott. B&W. 20m

4:20 AM Short Film: Hog Wild (1930)
Two friends try to install a radio antenna, with disastrous results. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Fay Holderness. Director: James Parrott. B&W. 19m

4:45 AM Short Film: Be Big (1931)
Two married men feign illness so they can ditch their wives and attend a lodge party. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin. Director: James Parrott. B&W. 28m

5:15 AM Short Film: Laughing Gravy (1931)
Roommates try to hide a dog from their grouchy landlord. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall. Director: James W. Home. B&W. 20m

5:50 AM Short Film: Our Wife (1931)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Babe London. Director: James W. Horne. B&W. 20m

6:15 AM Short Film: Pardon Us (1931)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe. Director: James Parrott. B&W. 64m

7:30 AM Short Film: One Good Turn (1931)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr. Director: James W. Horne. B&W. 20m

7:55 AM Short Film: Beau Hunks (1931)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy BW-37m

8:35 AM Short Film: Helpmates (1932)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns. Director: James Parrott. B&W. 20m

9:00 AM Bonnie Scotland (1935)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Director: James Horne. B&W. 81m

10:25 AM Short Film: The Fixer Uppers (1935)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy. Director: Charles Rogers BW-20m

10:50 AM Them Thar Hills (1934)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Director: Charles Rogers. B&W. 20m

11:15 AM Tit For Tat (1935)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Director: Charles Rogers. B&W. 19m

11:40 AM The Live Ghost (1934)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy.
Director: Charles Rogers.
B&W. 20m

12:05 PM The Devil’s Brother (1933)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd. Director: Hal Roach. B&W. 90m

1:40 PM Me and My Pal (1933)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson. Director: Lloyd French, Charley Rogers. B&W. 20m

2:10 PM Their First Mistake (1932)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch. Director: George Marshall. B&W. 21m

2:35 PM Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway. Director: George Marshall, Ray McCarey. B&W. 66m

3:45 PM Scram! (1932)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer. Director: Ray McCarey. B&W. 20m

4:10 PM County Hospital (1932)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Director: James Parrott. B&W. 19m

4:30 PM The Chimp (1932)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Director: James Parrott. B&W. 25m

5:00 PM The Music Box (1932)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. Director: James Parrott. B&W. 29m

5:35 PM Sons of the Desert (1933)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase. Director: William A. Seiter. B&W. 65m

6:45 PM Way Out West (1938)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynne. Director: James W. Horne. B&W. 64m

8:00 PM Swiss Miss (1938)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Walter Woolf King. Director: John G. Blystone. B&W. 65m

9:15 PM Block-Heads (1938)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Minna Gombell. Director: John G. Blystone. B&W. 57m

10:15 PM The Flying Deuces (1939)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker. Director: A. Edward Sutherland. B&W. 65m

11:25 PM A Chump at Oxford (1939)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardey, Wilfred Lucas. Director: Alfred J. Goulding. B&W. 63m

12:30 AM Saps at Sea (1940)
Cast: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, James Finlayson. Director: Gordon M. Douglas. B&W. 58m

1:30 AM Air Raid Wardens (1943)
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy. Director: Edward Sedgwick. B&W. 67m

notes

Laurel and Hardy movie schedule via the TCM website.