The best Stan Laurel’s comedy movies

Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel

16/06/1890- 23/02/1965
Today we present the best Stan Laurel’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Stan Laurel’s movies.
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Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland
7.1/10
Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
7.4/10
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.

Great Guns

Great Guns
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1941
  • Character: Stan
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.

Our Relations

Our Relations
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/09/1936
  • Character: Stan / Alf Laurel
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDocumentary
  • Release: 02/09/1964
  • Character: Stan in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Brats

Brats
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/03/1930
  • Character: Stan Sr. / Stanley Jr.
Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.

The Flying Deuces

The Flying Deuces
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 03/11/1939
  • Character: Stan
Ollie is in love with a woman. When he discovers that she is already married, he tries to kill himself. Of course, the suicide is avoided and the boys join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. Finally, they are arrested for trying to desert the Legion and to escape the firing squad by stealing a plane.

Pack Up Your Troubles

Pack Up Your Troubles
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 16/09/1932
  • Character: Stan
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.

Busy Bodies

Busy Bodies
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/10/1933
  • Character: Stan
In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.

Way Out West

Way Out West
7.6/10
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

Big Business

Big Business
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/04/1929
  • Character: Stan
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.

Sons of the Desert

Sons of the Desert
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/12/1933
  • Character: Stanley 'Stan' Laurel
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

Helpmates

Helpmates
7.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/01/1932
  • Character: Stan
Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.

Pardon Us

Pardon Us
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/08/1931
  • Character: Stan
It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

Bonnie Scotland

Bonnie Scotland
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/08/1935
  • Character: Stanley MacLaurel
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.

Block-Heads

Block-Heads
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 19/08/1938
  • Character: Stan
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 who has now been returned to the States and invites him back to his home.

The Music Box

The Music Box
7.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/04/1932
  • Character: Stan
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen's house. Their task is complicated by a sassy nursemaid and, unbeknownst to them, the impatient Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen himself. But the biggest problem is the force of gravity, which repeatedly pulls the piano back down to the bottom of the stairs.

County Hospital

County Hospital
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/06/1932
  • Character: Stan
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.

Utopia

Utopia
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/12/1950
  • Character: Stan
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.

A Chump at Oxford

A Chump at Oxford
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/01/1940
  • Character: Stan
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid (Stan in drag) for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The thankful bank president sends them to Oxford to get an education. Predictable results ensue.

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