"Director: Charley Rogers"

• Laurel And Hardy - March Of The Wooden Soldiers | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The most lavish feature built around Laurel and Hardy, 1934's March of the Wooden Soldiers is also the most bizarre. Opening unpromisingly with one of several mawkish numbers derived from Victor Herbert's musical Babes in Toyland, the antics of toyshop labourers Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee are worked into a scenario midway between Lewis Carroll and The Brothers Grimm. Nursery-rhyme characters come and go in a surreal fantasy, with the evil Mr Barnaby threatening to evict Widow Peep from her shoe unless he receives her daughter Bo in marriage. The movie culminates in a full-scale invasion of Toyland by the yeti-ish Bogeymen and their defeat by the 100 six-foot wooden soldiers that Stan and Ollie have built by mistake. Henry Brandon gives a characterful performance, while 1930s child star Charlotte Henry is an appealing heroine. Directors Gus Meins and Charles R Rogers milk the slapstick to an increasingly unnerving degree. Reputedly Hardy's favourite among the double act's features, March of the Wooden Soldiers emerges now as their most audacious screen appearance. On the DVD: March of the Wooden Soldiers on disc reproduces the original black and white print in 4:3 ratio with pristine clarity; the mono soundtrack has similarly worn well. The potted biographies of Laurel and Hardy are too brief to be worthwhile, but the inclusion of the 1915 short Hustling for Health--among the earliest of Stan Laurel's film appearances--is a valuable bonus. --Richard Whitehouse

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• The Laurel And Hardy Collection | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A selection of the comedy duo's films.... Lucky Dog (1921) Be Big (1931) March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) Flying Deuces (1939) Utopia (1950) their appearance on This Is Your Life (1952) and Laurel and Hardy at the Movies.

• Laurel And Hardy - Bohemian Girl | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £3.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (351.76%)   |  RRP £8.99

  In this film Laurel & Hardy play a couple of gypsies who spend most of their time playing 'fingers' and picking pockets. They find themselves camped outside a Counts palace.... Olivers' wife kidnaps the Counts daughter and abandons Oliver for her lover leaving him with the child. Years pass and once again they are camping in the palace grounds when the daughter now a woman is caught tresspassing and thrown in the dungeons. Unaware of her noble birth Oliver and 'uncle' Stanley must

• Laurel And Hardy Collection | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (32.50%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Bohemian Girl (Dirs. James W. Horne & Charley Rogers 1936): In this film Laurel & Hardy play a couple of gypsies who spend most of their time playing ""fingers"" and picking pockets. Laurel & Hardy's Laughing 20's (Dir. Robert Youngson 1965): This documentary renewed an interest in Laurel & Hardy and led to a revival in television showings of their classic comedy shorts. The Flying Deuces (Dir. A. Edward Sutherland 1939): Ollie's broken heart lands Laurel &

• Laurel Hardy 4 Disc Set | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  March of the Wooden Soldiers Evil old Silas Barnaby threatens to evict Widow Peep who lives in a shoe unless she lets him marry her daughter Bo-Beep who is in love with the dashing young Tom-Tom. Silas seeks revenge by banishing Tom-Tom to Bogeyland but with the help of Stan Ollie and a mouse Tom-Tom and Bo-Peep are saved and the monsters of Bogeyland chased out of Toyland. Flying Deuces Stan and Ollie are holidaying in Paris. Ollie intends to remain in France to marry Georgette (Jean Parker) the innkeeper's daughter but she refuses his proposal. Ollie decides instead to jump into the Seine along with Stan but Fran''ois (Reginald Gardiner) a Foreign Legion officer who is actually Georgette's husband offers an alternative. Utopia The last film Laurel and Hardy made together Stan and Ollie fly to London for the reading of Stan's late uncle's will. After Stan's uncle's cash is used to pay the solicitors death duties and tax the only things left are a yacht--and a South Sea island. Hilarious hijinks ensue... Disc 4 also includes Hustling for Health One Too Many and The Lucky Dog

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  Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee are lodging at Mother Widow Peep's house and resolve to help her clear her mortgage with Silas Barnaby. When they find they have insufficient saved up they decide to borrow the rest against their wages from the Toymaker. Unfortunately Stannie has mixed up an order for Santa Claus building him 100 six foot tall soldiers instead of 600 one foot tall soldiers which leads to their dismissal. They are then banished from Toyland to Bogeyland on trumped up burglary charges which are eventually dropped on the proviso that Little Bo Peep agrees to marry Silas Barnaby. Stannie dresses up as the bride and tricks Silas Barnaby long enough for the mortgage deed to be handed over but an enraged Barnaby frames Tom Tom (Little Bo Peep's true love) for pignapping and gets him banished to Bogeyland. Barnaby eventually leads the Bogeymen of Bogeyland on an invasion of Toyland with only Stannie and Ollie and their hundred soldiers standing in their way.