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The Lost Films of
Laurel and Hardy
Volume Six
(1923-1929)

Contents: The Soilers (1923), Crazy Like a Fox (1926), 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926), Putting Pants on Philip (1927), Flying Elephants (1929) and That’s My Wife (1929).

Hal Roach Studios
2000 DVD edition

The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, The Complete Collection, Volume Six (1923-1929), black & white, 121 minutes total, not rated, including The Soilers (1923), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Crazy Like a Fox (1926), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926), black & white, 33 minutes, not rated, Putting Pants on Philip (1927), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Flying Elephants (1929), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, and That’s My Wife (1929), black & white, 19 minutes, not rated.

Hal Roach Studios, distributed by Image Entertainment,
HRS4796, UPC 0-14381-47962-1.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 4.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; snapper DVD case (reissued in standard DVD keepcase); $29.99.
Release date: 25 April 2000.
Country of origin: USA •

This DVD collection has been mastered from 35mm print elements. We have seen some of the films on laserdisc and VHS videotape, and we have seen other DVD releases in this series. Our hipshot opinion of the DVD, sight unseen, is that some films will look very-good (transferred from the original 35mm negatives) and others may be passable at best, usually films transferred from the best surviving material in the possession of Hal Roach Studios.

For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our 45 Minutes from Hollywood on home video, Putting Pants on Philip on home video and The Soilers on home video pages.