Further Perils of Laurel & Hardy Review

[r***@yahoo.com]

Well, the good news is that it is the full 1967 Robert Youngson
feature, with clips from L&H in their (silent) prime including: Do
Detectives Think?, Flying Elephants, Leave 'em Laughing, Your Darn
Tootin', Should Married Men Go Home?, Sugar Daddies, The Second
Hundred Years, Early to Bed, Habeas Corpus, That's My Wife! and Angora
Love. Chunks of Stan Laurel's Just Rambling Along and Oliver Hardy's
Billy West shorts The Villain, The Hobo and His Day Out are also
included in the early part of the feature. Three Snub Pollard clips
are used: The Anvil Chorus, Stage Struck and Full o' Pep, a Noah Young
clip (title unknown to me), Charley Chase in Young Oldfield and Paul
Parrott (misidentified as brother Charley) in Do Your Stuff.

The bad news is that the source material looks like it was taken a
grainy 16mm print, and the video doesn't look first generation by any
means. The transfer to video must have been originally mastered in
Europe, as the telltale 4% speedup is noticable. It only affects
Youngson's score (always enjoyable, if mostly recycled from Laurel &
Hardy's Roaring Twenties) and Jay Jackson's narration, so it is not a
dealbreaker. No extras or commentary track, but for the cheap price
none were really expected. The chapters are identified by movie
title, which helps the viewer to quickly find favorite clips.

It is a mystery how Wham!USA got the rights to distribute this in the
US, since it is well known that Turner suspended all cable showings
and commercial video releases of L&H's Roaring Twenties under legal
threat from Richard Feiner. Which suggests that if you want to see
one of the rarest titles in the Laurel & Hardy filmography, best to
pick this baby up sooner rather than later. Available at Amazon.com
for just $12.99.

Rob Farr
www.slapsticon.org
July 19-22

[Mister Levity]

Post by r***@yahoo.com
It is a mystery how Wham!USA got the rights to distribute this in the
US, since it is well known that Turner suspended all cable showings
and commercial video releases of L&H's Roaring Twenties under legal
threat from Richard Feiner.

Don't you mean "LAUREL AND HARDY'S LAUGHING 20'S"?

THE FURTHER PERILS OF LAUREL AND HARDY has been available on DVD
from Orbit Media on PAL format Region 0 for many years now. I haven't
watched
this new NTSC relaese yet but it could have been copied from the Orbit
disc.
When I take a look I'll compare it to my PAL disc.

[r***@yahoo.com]

Post by Mister Levity

Post by r***@yahoo.com
It is a mystery how Wham!USA got the rights to distribute this in the
US, since it is well known that Turner suspended all cable showings
and commercial video releases of L&H's Roaring Twenties under legal
threat from Richard Feiner.

Don't you mean "LAUREL AND HARDY'S LAUGHING 20'S"?
THE FURTHER PERILS OF LAUREL AND HARDY has been available on DVD
from Orbit Media on PAL format Region 0 for many years now. I haven't
watched
this new NTSC relaese yet but it could have been copied from the Orbit
disc.
When I take a look I'll compare it to my PAL disc.

You're right, and I also forgot to add that there are two additional
non-L&H clips toward the end: Bryant Washburn in The Unkissed Man and
Charley Chase in The Way of All Pants.

[Shark]

Post by r***@yahoo.com
You're right, and I also forgot to add that there are two additional
non-L&H clips toward the end: Bryant Washburn in The Unkissed Man and
Charley Chase in The Way of All Pants.

In fact...isn't the version of "The Way Of All Pants" on one of the
Image "Lost Films" discs essentially this clip from "Further Perils"
with a cobbled-together Vitaphone score and a "fake" opening title
(identifying the short as a Pathe release when in fact it was an M-G-
M)?

[Mister Levity]

I just checked out the new NTSC DVD release of THE FURTHER PERILS OF
LAUREL AND HARDY from Wham! and compared it with my Orbit Media PAL
disc, and
yeah the Wham! DVD is a copy of the PAL DVD.

I still highly recommend buffs getting this regardless as it's a lot
of fun to watch.