The best Stan Laurel’s 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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The Flying Deuces

The Flying Deuces
6.8/10
  • 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Devil's Brother

The Devil's Brother
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 05/05/1933
  • Character: Stanlio
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.

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.

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.

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.

The Stolen Jools

The Stolen Jools
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1931
  • Character: Policeman
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

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.

Hollywood Without Make-Up

Hollywood Without Make-Up
7.2/10
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

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.

Swiss Miss

Swiss Miss
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/05/1938
  • Character: Stan
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.

That's Entertainment! III

That's Entertainment! III
7.5/10
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.

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