WRONG AGAIN (1929)

Among the horses stable hands Stanley and Oliver are tending is a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being the painting, not the horse. They get the owner's address, though, and bring the horse along to claim the reward. They wonder at the rich man's instructions to put "Blue Boy" on the piano but, Oliver explains, "these millionaires are peculiar."

Shooting the film.

BLOCKHEADS (1938)

It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old chum's picture in the paper and goes to visit Stan at the Soldier's Home. Thinking Stan is disabled (it's just that he's sitting on his leg), Oliver takes pity on him and takes him home for a nice home-cooked meal. But Oliver's wife has other ideas and leaves him to fend for himself. After blowing up the kitchen, Oliver is helped by his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Gilbert... until the big-game hunting Mr. Gilbert comes home unexpectedly, carrying a shotgun.

This was supposed to have been Stan and Ollie's farewell film with the Hal Roach Studios. Roach was moving into more serious films, and felt the Laurel and Hardy films had done their course. The problem is that Laurel and Hardy were under separate contracts, and when Stan's contract expired, he refused to sign on again unless Roach signed both he and Ollie together as a team, and separate contract players. Roach refused, Stan left while Ollie was still under contract. Roach tried to team Ollie with Harry Langdon (Langdon and Hardy) the following year in a film call Zenobia. The audiences didn't accept this and Laurel and Hardy returned to Roach for a two feature deal in 1940, after making an independent feature in 1939 called "The Flying Deuces."

Stan celebrates his birthday with a cake presented to him by the cast of Blockheads.

Between takes, Ollie has his hand prints taken by a palmist.

Shooting the 'kitchen' scene.

Preparing for the 'dump truck' scene.

Minna Gombell visits the boys on the 'Blockheads' set.

with Harry Langdon on the 'Blockheads' set.

Meeting young fans and signing autographs while on location filming 'Blockheads'.




Stan with child actress Patsy May.

THE BULLFIGHTERS (1945)

The boys are detectives working in Mexico. Laurel happens to resemble a famous matador who has disappeared, and he is enlisted to replace him in the bullring.

Stan Laurel's daughter Lois with her dad on the set of The Bullfighters.

Stan Laurel's daughter Lois with her dad, best friend Julia Baker (daughter of Clyde Cook) and Oliver Hardy on the set of The Bullfighters.

TOWED IN A HOLE (1932)

Laurel and Hardy are in the fish business. They drive around town seeing if they can sell any. Stan suggests they catch their own fish and could keep all the profits when selling them to people. Ollie likes the idea so they buy a boat at the junk yard and try, sometimes unsuccessfully, to fix it up. When the boat is finally fixed up, the whole operation goes south.

Director George Marshall with Laurel and Hardy filming the puddle scene at the Arnaz ranch.

The boys enjoy a coffee break between takes.

Waiting to film a scene.

Larking around off camera with director George Marshall.

THE FLYING DEUCES (1939)

Oliver is heartbroken when he finds that Georgette, the inkeeper's daughter he's fallen in love with, is already married to dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. To forget her, he joins the Legion, taking Stanley with him. Their bumbling eventually gets them charged with desertion and sentenced to a firing squad. They manage to escape in a stolen airplane, but crash after a wild ride.

In the Summer of 1939, a Nebraska college group took a field trip to Hollywood to visit the great motion picture empire of the West. One of the most memorable stops they made was at the General Studios in Hollywood, where Laurel and Hardy’s newest feature The Flying Deuces was being filmed. Student Bob Lichty had the foresight to have his camera at the ready, and snapped a few great shots of Stan and Babe - as well as one of the evil Commandant Charles Middleton. He took the opportunity to get a photo with an old friend of the boys who was visiting the set, too - former Roach employee Harold Lloyd.

Oliver Hardy chatting to producer Boris Morris during a shooting break.

Stan changing into foreign legion costume for the next scene.

Stan working on a routine with gag-man Charley Rogers and producer Boris Morros.

Oliver Hardy on set during the shooting of the final scenes (when Ollie is resurrected as a horse).

The boys pose with an unknown military officer on set. Possibly the pilot from the flight scenes.

Between scenes

Charles Middleton

Harold Lloyd on set

WAY OUT WEST (1937)

Stan and Ollie are headed for the western town of Brushwood Gulch. Their mission is to find a woman named Mary Roberts in order to deliver her a deed to a valuable gold mine left to her by her father. Unfortunately, their problems start as soon as they arrive in town when they realize they upset the wife of the town's Sheriff while on the coach they hitch a ride on, and they must catch the next coach out of town...or else. Their problems continue when Mickey Finn, Mary's guardian, learns why they're here, and has his wife, Lola Marcel, play Mary in order to hijack the deed from them. However, before leaving town, they encounter the real Mary Roberts and are forced to get the deed back. What ensues from there is more hilarity then you could ever image.

Shooting in front of the projection screen.

Rehearsing their famous soft shoe dance.

Stan's daughter Lois visits the set.

Preparing to shoot a scene with Rosina Lawrence. Rosina also provided the female voice heard when Stan sings 'Trail Of The Lonesome Pine'.

Charlie Chaplins valet/bodyguard Toraichi Kono, visits Laurel and Hardy on set.

SHOULD MARRIED MEN GO HOME (1928)

When Laurel visits Hardy at home, hi-jinx occur and the Mrs. orders them out. They go to a golf course where they try to impress two young ladies and wind up in a mud-slinging fight with other golfers.

NEWLY RELEASED FOOTAGE

On location with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy during the making of "Should Married Men Go Home." George Mann of the comedic dance act Barto and Mann shot the film.

Learning something new with James Parrott

OUR RELATIONS (1936)

Unbeknownst to Stanley and Oliver, their long-lost twin brothers, sailors Alfie and Bert are in town on shore leave carrying a valuable pearl ring entrusted to them by their ship's captain. All four get involved in multiple cases of mistaken identity as a gang of hoodlums try to steal the ring Stanley and Oliver wind up with their feet in cement, about to be dumped into the harbor.

Stan and Ollie playing around on set with Our Gang kids Spanky McFarland and Darla Hood.

Stan messes around with a film editors magnifying glass.

The boys watching a scene being filmed.

On set with Hal Roach .

with director Harry Lachman and cinematographer Rudolph Maté.

Shooting the famous 'window' scene.

Barbara Kent, formerly a reigning movie queen visits Laurel and Hardy on the set of ‘Our Relations’ at the Hal Roach Studios.

with Patsy Kelly, Lyda Roberti, film director Gus Meins and L.A. French, supervisor of the Laurel-Hardy company.

Preparing to shoot the famous telephone box scene.