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The Lost Films of
Laurel and Hardy

Volume Four
(1924-1936)

 

Contents: Should Sailors Marry? (1924), Their Purple Moment (1928), Bacon Grabbers (1929), They Go Boom! (1929), Unaccustomed As We Are — (1929) [silent version], and On the Wrong Trek (1936).

coverHal Roach Studios
2000 DVD edition

The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, The Complete Collection, Volume Four (1924-1936), black & white, 120 minutes total, not rated, including Should Sailors Marry? (1924), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Their Purple Moment (1928), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Bacon Grabbers (1929), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, They Go Boom! (1929), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, Unaccustomed As We Are — (1929) [silent version], black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, and On the Wrong Trek (1936), black & white, 18 minutes, not rated.

Hal Roach Studios, distributed by Image Entertainment,
HRS 4794, UPC 0-14381-47942-3.
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 4.4 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 foreign language subtitles; 6 chapter stops; snapper DVD case (reissued in standard DVD keepcase); $29.99.
Release date: 4 January 2000.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD collection has been mastered from 35mm print elements. We have seen some of the films from this collection 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.

Read our review of volume three in this series for an idea of what to expect from this release.

 
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