Now, thanks to the untiring efforts of Richard Bann, the Roach library has been treated right on this 10-disc set. That nicely-packaged collection also included colorized editions, which most fans wouldn’t bother to watch. I know many people who were so desperate to have this material that they purchased all-region DVD players just so they could play the British boxed set of L&H comedies some years ago.
(A handful of these films were released several years ago, but in slipshod fashion, using syndicated TV masters with fade-outs for commercial breaks!) It includes all of the team’s talkie shorts-including the ones they made in foreign languages for the international market-and most of their feature films for producer Hal Roach. Therefore, I’m happy to report that Laurel & Hardy The Essential Collection (Vivendi) fully lives up to its name. It’s a cultural crime that the greatest comedy team of all time has been so forsaken on DVD…until now. MovieFanFare is thrilled to have Leonard Maltin returning for another guest post today:
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