The Laurel & Hardy Project

Around 5:30 AM a couple months ago, I caught a showing of the Laurel & Hardy short Two Tars on TCM and absolutely loved it.  The guys play a couple of sailors who cause a great deal of destruction at a traffic jam for no particular reason other than the pure joy of creating chaos.  This struck a chord with my newborn-addled mind and, after some helpful advice from this davekehr.com thread (where a commenter provides this brilliant explanation of the boys to his young daughter: "They're both dumb, but the fat one thinks he's smart"), I went and bought this massive Laurel & Hardy boxset from amazon.uk.  It's bigger than the American DVD collection as it includes their silent films as well as their talkies.  My task then, is to watch all the film in the set, in chronological order and write about them here.  This is the list of the films, along with disc number and release date as provided by a helpful commenter at the amazon site, with links to the reviews added as I write them:

1. Thundering Fleas (21) 04.07.1926 

2. Along Came Auntie (9) 25.07.1926 

3. 45 Minutes from Hollywood (12) 26.12.1926 

4. Duck Soup (12) 13.03.1927 

5. Slipping Wives (10) 03.04.1927 

6. Jewish Prudence (21) 08.05.1927 

7. Love 'Em and Weep (8) 12.06.1927 

8. Fluttering Hearts (21) 19.06.1927 

9. Why Girls Love Sailors (16) 17.07.1927 

10. With Love and Hisses (7) 28.08.1927 

11. Sugar Daddies (8) 10.09.1927 

12. Sailors, Beware! (16) 25.09.1927 

13. The Second Hundred Years (12) 08.10.1927 

14. Call of the Cuckoo (12) 15.10.1927 

15. Do Detectives Think? (20) 20.11.1927 

16. Putting Pants on Philip (15) 03.12.1927 

17. The Battle of the Century (19) 31.12.1927 

18. Leave 'Em Laughing (2) 28.01.1928 

19. Flying Elephants (17) 12.02.1928 

20. The Finishing Touch (14) 25.02.1928 

21. From Soup to Nuts (1) 24.03.1928 

22. You're Darn Tootin' (11) 21.04.1928 

23. Their Purple Moment (13) 19.05.1928 

24. Should Married Men Go Home? (7) 08.09.1928 

25. Early to Bed (8) 06.10.1928 

26. Two Tars (16) 03.11.1928 

27. Habeas Corpus (20) 01.12.1928 

28. We Faw Down (13) 29.12.1928 

29. Liberty (20) 26.01.1929 

30. Wrong Again (20) 23.02.1929 

31. That's My Wife (9) 23.03.1929 

32. Big Business (12) 20.04.1929 

33. Unaccustomed As We Are (7) 04.05.1929 

34. Double Whoopee (14) 18.05.1929 

35. Berth Marks (6) 01.06.1929 

36. Men O'War (16) 29.06.1929 

37. Perfect Day (2) 10.08.1929 

38. They Go Boom! (2) 21.09.1929 

39. Bacon Grabbers (20) 19.10.1929 

40. The Hoose-Gow (19) 16.11.1929 

41. Angora Love (20) 14.12.1929 

42. Night Owls (12) 04.01.1930 

43. Blotto (18) 08.02.1930 

44. Brats (5/21) 22.03.1930 

45. Below Zero (11) 26.04.1930 

46. Hog Wild (14) 31.05.1930 

47. The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (6) 06.09.1930 

48. Another Fine Mess (1) 29.11.1930 

49. Be Big! (18) 07.02.1931 

50. Chickens Come Home (8) 21.02.1931 

51. Laughing Gravy (10) 04.04.1931 

52. Our Wife (4) 16.05.1931 

53. Come Clean (8) 19.09.1931 

54. Pardon Us (19) 15.10.1931 

55. One Good Turn (3) 31.10.1931 

56. Beau Hunks (4) 12.12.1931 

57. On the Loose (9) 26.12.1931 

58. Helpmates (4) 23.01.1932 

59. Any Old Port! (16) 05.03.1932 

60. The Music Box (14) 16.04.1932 

61. The Chimp (17) 21.05.1932 

62. County Hospital (2) 25.06.1932 

63. Scram! (12) 10.09.1932 

64. Pack Up Your Troubles (15) 17.09.1932 

65. Their First Mistake (15) 05.11.1932 

66. Towed in a Hole (16) 31.12.1932 

67. Twice Two (5) 25.02.1933 

68. Me and My Pal (4) 22.04.1933 

69. The Midnight Patrol (20) 03.08.1933 

70. Busy Bodies (14) 07.10.1933 

71. Dirty Work (14) 25.11.1933 

72. Sons of the Desert (13) 29.12.1933 

73. Oliver the Eighth (6) 13.01.1934 

74. Going Bye-Bye! (20) 23.06.1934 

75. Them Thar Hills (2) 21.07.1934 

76. The Live Ghost (16) 08.12.1934 

77. Tit for Tat (2) 05.01.1935 

78. The Fixer Uppers (10) 09.02.1935 

79. Thicker Than Water (3) 16.03.1935 

80. The Bohemian Girl (9) 14.02.1936 

81. On the Wrong Trek (13) 18.04.1936 

82. Our Relations (5) 30.10.1936 

83. Way Out West (3) 16.04.1937 

84. Swiss Miss (17) 20.05.1938 

85. Block-Heads (7) 19.08.1938 

86. A Chump at Oxford (1) 25.01.1940 

87. Saps at Sea (11) 29.04.1940