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Review Image Entertainment  / Laurel & Hardy: Finishing Touch (Silent) Release date: 2000-03-28
Run time: 23 min.
Price: $9.98

Review Laurel & Hardy: Finishing Touch (Silent) / Image Entertainment:

A rich guy is looking for two meticulous craftsmen to finish up his fancy new home. Unfortunately for him, he winds up with Laurel and Hardy. When they aren't busy irritating each other, they are busy irritating the nervous occupants of a once-quiet hospital situated just across the street. And, when they aren't busy injuring themselves, they are heaping bruises and indignities upon the local cop on the beat, the always-steaming Edgar Kennedy. A hysterical look at the first of the Laurel and Hardy "laborer" comedies, "The Finishing Touch" is as funny today as it was seven decades ago.

Release date: 1998-08-25
Price: $5.99

Review Charlie Chaplin & The Keystone Cops / Bci Eclipse:


Review Bfs Entertainment  / The Two Ronnies
Actors & Directors
  • Marcus Plantin
  • James Gilbert (IV)
  • Barbara Dickson
  • Peter Whitmore (II)
  • Diana Dors
  • Brian Penders
  • Terry Hughes
Release date: 1998-11-11
Price: $29.98

Review The Two Ronnies / Bfs Entertainment:


Review   / My Best Girl Price: $49.99

Review My Best Girl:

In My Best Girl, Mary Pickford demonstrates the winsome charm that won her the title "America's Sweetheart. " She plays Maggie Johnson, a sensible stockroom girl at Merrill's, a five-and-ten-cent store. This is the heyday of the big five-and-dimes and Robert Merrill (Hobart Bosworth), the store's wealthy owner, is clearly a stand-in for F. W. Woolworth. The opening shot of Maggie displays Pickford's prodigious gift for physical comedy. She stumbles onto the selling floor laden with pots and pans, kicking them out of her way and wearing them like shoes. Then, when a salesgirl takes a break, Maggie is given the chance to be a salesgirl herself for a fateful few moments. Maggie's first and only customer is the owner's son, Joe Merrill, (fresh-faced and sunny Charles "Buddy" Rogers). Maggie has no clue of the young man's pedigree, as he is slumming as "Joe Grant. [+]
" His father has insisted that he work his way up as a humble store clerk without benefit of his famous name. The chemistry between Joe and Maggie is instantly apparent. Maggie takes him down to the stockroom, where he's helpless with the simplest tasks. "You know, you're awfully dumb," she tells him. But thanks to her patient training, he's eventually promoted to the position of her boss. (It's an appealing role reversal of the principals in the "Pygmalion"/"My Fair Lady" tale. ) In the meantime, of course, they fall in love. The moment when Maggie realizes Joe's true identity is stunning. She runs back to her humble family on "Goat Hill": fumbling father, (Lucien Littlefield), lachrymose mother (Sunshine Hart), and reprobate sister (Carmelita Geraghty). Is Maggie and Joe's love affair doomed? Or will they sail away to paradise together? Only those who see My Best Girl can learn the answers to these burning questions. -Laura Mirsky.

Review Kino Video  / Slapstick Encyclopedia Boxed Set 1
Actors & Directors
  • Buster Keaton
  • Vivien Oakland
  • Bruno C. Becker
  • Buster Keaton
  • Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
  • Charles Chaplin
  • Charley Chase
  • Charles Chaplin
  • Al Christie
  • Bert Williams
Release date: 2000-06-27
List Price: $89.95
Price: $39.95

Review Slapstick Encyclopedia Boxed Set 1 / Kino Video:

Free-standing box set contains first four titles from the Slapstick Encyclopedia series: In the Beginning: Film Comedy Pioneers, Keystone Tonight!: The Mack Sennett Comedies, Funny Girls, and Keaton, Arbuckle & St. John.

Review Kino Video  / Happiness
Actors & Directors
  • Pyotr Zinovyev
  • Mikhail Gipsi
  • Aleksandr Medvedkin
  • Yelena Yegorova
  • Nikolai Cherkasov
  • Viktor Kulakov
Release date: 2000-06-27
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Aleksandr Medvedkin
Price: $29.95

Review Happiness / Kino Video:


Review Kino Video  / The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
Actors & Directors
  • Igor Ilyinsky
  • Yuliya Solntseva
  • Leonid Baratov
  • Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
  • Nikolai Tsereteli
  • Anna Dmokhovskaya
Release date: 2000-06-27
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Fyodor Otsep
Price: $29.95

Review The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom / Kino Video:


Review MGM (Warner)  / Show People
Actors & Directors
  • George K. Arthur
  • Charles Chaplin
  • King Vidor
  • Sidney Bracey
  • Lew Cody
  • Albert Conti
Release date: 1998-09-01
Run time: 82 min.
Price: $29.98

Review Show People / MGM (Warner):


Review BBC Warner  / Two Ronnies: Best of
Actors & Directors
  • Diana Dors
  • Barbara Dickson
  • James Gilbert (IV)
  • Peter Whitmore (II)
  • Marcus Plantin
  • Brian Penders
  • Terry Hughes
Release date: 2000-07-19
List Price: $4.96
Price: $99.99

Review Two Ronnies: Best of / BBC Warner:

A non-stop cavalcade of the most brilliant monologues, sketches, "news briefs" and musical extravaganzas from the Two Ronnies, Barker and Corbett.

Review Image Entertainment  / Laurel & Hardy: Slipping Wives
Actors & Directors
  • Fred Guiol
  • Herbert Rawlinson
  • Priscilla Dean
  • Albert Conti
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Stan Laurel
Release date: 2001-12-18
Run time: 23 min.
Creator: H.M. Walker
Price: $9.98

Review Laurel & Hardy: Slipping Wives / Image Entertainment:

Priscilla Dean is feeling unwanted by her husband and hires Stan Laurel as her paramour to make her husband jealous. Unfortunately for Stan, the couple's butler, Oliver Hardy, takes an immediate dislike to the dimwitted rival, making his life miserable.

Review Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)  / Laurel & Hardy: Angora Love (Silent)
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Bernard
  • Edgar Kennedy
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Lewis R. Foster
  • Charlie Hall
  • Stan Laurel
Release date: 1998-12-15
Run time: 21 min.
Creator: Leo McCarey
List Price: $9.98
Price: $20.00

Review Laurel & Hardy: Angora Love (Silent) / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM):


Release date: 1998-08-25
List Price: $5.99
Price: $59.99

Review Silent Stage: Charlie Chaplin / Bci Eclipse:


Release date: 2000-06-13
Run time: 141 min.
Price: $18.09

Review Master of the House / Homevision; Silent Movie titled in English:


Review Hbo Home Video  / Buster Keaton - A Hard Act to Follow: Genius Recognized
Actors & Directors
  • Lindsay Anderson
  • Buster Keaton
  • David Gill
  • Loyal T. Lucas
  • Bill Cox
  • Charles Lamont
  • Kevin Brownlow
Release date: 1998-01-01
Creator: Kevin Brownlow
Price: $19.98

Review Buster Keaton - A Hard Act to Follow: Genius Recognized / Hbo Home Video:


Review Mark Allan Productions  / Roping Fool
Actors & Directors
  • Clarence G. Badger
  • Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
  • Russ Powell
  • Will Rogers
  • John Ince
  • Irene Rich
Release date: 1993-10-01
Run time: 22 min.
Creator: Will Rogers
Price: $14.95

Review Roping Fool / Mark Allan Productions:


Review Kino Video  / The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Actors & Directors
  • Boris Barnet
  • Porfiri Podobed
  • Lev Kuleshov
  • Sergei Komarov
  • Aleksandra Khokhlova
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin
Release date: 2000-06-27
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Nikolai Aseyev
Price: $29.95

Review The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks / Kino Video:


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Laurel & Hardy: Finishing Touch (Silent), Charlie Chaplin & The Keystone Cops, The Two Ronnies, My Best Girl, Slapstick Encyclopedia Boxed Set 1, Happiness, The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom, Show People, Two Ronnies: Best of, Laurel & Hardy: Slipping Wives, Laurel & Hardy: Angora Love (Silent), Silent Stage: Charlie Chaplin, Master of the House, Buster Keaton - A Hard Act to Follow: Genius Recognized, Roping Fool, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

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