Laurel and Hardy - Watch Order: Release Order

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1931 - 195121 Films24h 20m3.5 Average

Laurel and Hardy's feature films represent a golden age of slapstick comedy, with the beloved duo appearing in 21 standalone comedies over two decades. Each film presents Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as different characters in various scenarios, from period pieces to contemporary settings, maintaining only their iconic bumbling personas and flawless comedic timing.

This release order showcases their evolution from early talkies through their peak years at Hal Roach Studios to their later work at different studios. While the films don't connect narratively, watching in release order provides the best sense of their artistic development and the changing landscape of Hollywood comedy.

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Pardon Us poster

Pardon Us

19311h 8m3.6
Director: James Parrott
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe, Wilfred Lucas, James Finlayson

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

Comedy
2
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Pack Up Your Troubles

19321h 8m3.8
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway, Jacquie Lyn, Mary Carr

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.

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3
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Sons of the Desert

19331h 5m4
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Dorothy Christy, Charley Chase

Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

Comedy
4
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The Devil's Brother

19331h 30m3.8
Director: Hal Roach
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd, Arthur Pierson

Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.

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5
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Babes in Toyland

19341h 18m3.5
Director: Gus Meins
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlotte Henry, Henry Brandon, Felix Knight

Ollie Dee and Stannie 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, enraging him.

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6
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The Bohemian Girl

19361h 11m3.3
Director: Charley Rogers
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd, Antonio Moreno, Darla Hood

Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.

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Our Relations

19361h 13m4
Director: Harry Lachman
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Betty Brown, Daphne Pollard, Alan Hale

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.

Comedy
8
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Way Out West

19371h 4m4.1
Director: James W. Horne
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Rosina Lawrence, James Finlayson, Sharon Lynn

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.

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9
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Swiss Miss

19381h 13m3.4
Director: John G. Blystone
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore

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.

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10
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Block-Heads

193857m4
Director: John G. Blystone
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell, Billy Gilbert

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.

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11
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The Flying Deuces

19391h 9m3.5
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Charles Middleton

Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.

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12
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A Chump at Oxford

19401h 1m3.9
Director: Alfred J. Goulding
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Forrester Harvey, Wilfred Lucas, Forbes Murray

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 grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.

Comedy
13
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Saps at Sea

194057m3.9
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Richard Cramer, Ben Turpin

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.

Comedy
14
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Great Guns

19411h 14m3.1
Director: Monty Banks
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan, Dick Nelson, Edmund MacDonald

Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.

Comedy
15
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A-Haunting We Will Go

19421h 8m3.2
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dante, Sheila Ryan, John Shelton

Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.

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16
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Jitterbugs

19431h 15m3.1
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivian Blaine, Robert Bailey, Douglas Fowley

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.

Comedy
17
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The Dancing Masters

19431h 3m3.2
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Trudy Marshall, Robert Bailey, Matt Briggs

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.

Comedy
18
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The Big Noise

19441h 14m3.2
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Veda Ann Borg

During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.

Comedy
19
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Nothing But Trouble

19441h 9m3.2
Director: Sam Taylor
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Boland, Philip Merivale, Henry O'Neill

Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal for visiting royalty.

Comedy
20
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The Bullfighters

19451h 1m3
Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Margo Woode, Richard Lane, Carol Andrews

Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.

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21
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Utopia

19511h 22m2.9
Director: Léo Joannon
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Suzy Delair, Max Elloy, Félix Oudart

Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific island.

Comedy