Laurel And Hardy - No. 8 - Blackmail - Classic Shorts (DVD)

Comedy with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Chickens Come Home (b/w) Chickens Come Home (colourised) Politiquerias (Chickens Come Home in an extended Spanish-language edition, with Laurel & Hardy speaking their own Spanish dialogue!) Come Clean (b/w) Love 'Em and Weep (b/w, silent with music score) Sugar Daddies (b/w, silent with music score) Early to Bed (b/w, silent with music score) A collection of classic Laurel & Hardy shorts based around the theme of blackmail - actual or implied! In one of the team's best shorts, 'Chickens Come Home', Ollie is a candidate for Mayor whose campaign is endangered by the reappearance of a girl from his past. Alongside the familiar version of this film is its feature-length Spanish equivalent 'Politiquerias', with L&H speaking their own foreign dialogue, plus the early silent short, 'Love `Em And Weep', on which it was based. Another early silent, 'Sugar Daddies', provides a variant on the idea (plus the same climactic gag!), while in the sound short 'Come Clean', regular foil Mae Busch - the blackmailer in 'Love `Em And Weep' and its remake - is once again demanding money from Stan and Ollie. In the classic silent 'Early To Bed', Ollie has money to spare - and this time it's Stan who learns the power of blackmail!

Colourised version of Chickens Come Home
Regions 2/4.