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Remastered and beautifully restored, the first two feature films of the most beloved comedy team in movie history are making their Blu-ray debut from ClassicFlix in Laurel and Hardy - The Restored Features, Volume 1.

During the mid-1920s, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were both hard working comedians for producer Hal Roach making silent movie audiences laugh—but doing so as individual actors. The duo started performing as a team in 1927s Putting Pants on Philip, and before long their two-reel comedies were leading the pack at Roach fueled by their great popularity with moviegoers. Four years later, Roach gave the pair a shot at features and this collection contains their first two: Pardon Us (1931, theatrical version) and Pack Up Your Troubles (1932).

Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, Pack Up Your Troubles finds The Boys overseas during World War I and letting loose with their patented brand of comic mayhem. Their favorite nemesis (Finlayson) returns, and is joined by Don Dillaway, Jacquie Lynn, Mary Carr, Richard Cramer, Tom Kennedy, Charles Middleton, Grady Sutton, Billy Gilbert, as well as co-director George Marshall who makes an on-screen appearance as a vengeful Army chef!"

FEATURES:

• Color/B&W: B/W
• Rating: NR
• Region: 1
• Subtitles: English
• Genre: Comedy
• # Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
• Runtime: 120 minutes
• Theatrical Year: 1931-32

Special Features:

• Opening title sequence of the preview version of Pardon Us (which had the working title of Their First Mistake) featuring the “talking titles” with the Crane twins. Never-before-seen alternate ending for Pardon Us (no audio) Pardon Us alternate audio track without incidental music

Laurel and Hardy - The Restored Features, Volume 1