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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Saps at Sea

Saps at Sea
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/04/1940
  • Character: Stan
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.

Another Fine Mess

Another Fine Mess
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/11/1930
  • Character: Stan
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.

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.

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.

Jitterbugs

Jitterbugs
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/06/1943
  • Character: Stan
The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.

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.

The Dancing Masters

The Dancing Masters
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/11/1943
  • Character: Stan
The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.

Tit for Tat

Tit for Tat
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/01/1935
  • Character: Stan
Stan and Ollie have set up their own electrical repair store. Unfortunately for them, the grocery store opposite is run by the man and wife whom they encountered in "Them Thar Hills" (1935). Stan and Ollie go and visit to offer the hand of friendship, but the grocer becomes convinced that Ollie is trying to seduce his wife.

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.

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.

Dirty Work

Dirty Work
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/11/1933
  • Character: Stan
Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps working at the home of mad scientist Professor Noodle.

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.

Scram!

Scram!
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/09/1932
  • Character: Stan
Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.

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