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Stan and Ollie BBC1 8.25 Friday 19th

Covered End
Covered End Posts: 52,006
edited February 2021 in Not Sports Related
Excellent film, unusually on BBC1, just thought I'd mention it.
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  • Pico
    Pico Posts: 1,029
    Brilliant film.  Brilliant performances. Strongly recommend it.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,184
    The bus shelter scene is laugh out loud funny
  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,914
    Saw it at the cinema and thought it is an excellent film
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    Saw it at the cinema and really enjoyed it. Well worth seeing.
  • captainbob
    captainbob Posts: 941
    Deciding who was funnier out of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton is as difficult as deciding who is the better footballer, Messi or Ronaldo. Yet, Keaton was decisive on the former question, stating, 'Chaplin wasn't the funniest. I wasn't the funniest. Stan Laurel was the funniest.'

    I wish the BBC would show the Laurel and Hardy films again, as they did in the Eighties, otherwise these classics will fade into obscurity. 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Saw the title & thought we were announcing our new manager & assistant live on tv...😄
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    really enjoyed this
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    My favourite Laurel & Hardy sketch is the one where they were trying to get a piano into a house with a very steep flight of steps......hilarious.😂
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited February 2021
    Stan and Ollie and the Marx brothers were magic for me as a kid. I also liked the Road films with Eltham's finest Bob Hope and the man who's last big hit was a golf ball, Bing Crosby.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    soapboxsam said:
    Stan and Ollie and the Marx brothers were magic for me as a kid. I also liked the Road films with Eltham's finest Bob Hope and the man who last hit was a golf ball, Bing Crosby.
    ?....doesn’t make sense sam?
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  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,968
    SoundAsa£ said:
    My favourite Laurel & Hardy sketch is the one where they were trying to get a piano into a house with a very steep flight of steps......hilarious.😂
    Mine too. 'The Music Box'
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    I also Liked watching the keystone cops but not so much when the Charlton defence try to emulate them.

    When Liverpool's new CB crashed into Allison outside the area against Leicester last week it was quintessential keystone cops; Very funny.
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,275
    Thanks, not seen it before so watching it now.
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    Yeah great film. Love Laurel & Hardy. 
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,147
    Missed it but watched a documentary about them once, where Stan Laurels telephone number was in the phone book, and if you called him he would chat to you, and lived in the same modest house for years.
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    Great film; the lead pair are fantastic.
  • Ferryman
    Ferryman Posts: 2,921
    Recorded it, and no adverts!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    Just watched it.......great movie.
    Thanks for the heads up Covered End.
    😂👍👏
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Thoroughly enjoyable - very poignant and brilliantly acted.

    Also made me remember just how supremely funny they were.

    Thanks for the heads up CE.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,006
    Excellent film - poignant being an apt description.
    Funny & sad a proper film.
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  • raytreacy69
    raytreacy69 Posts: 955
    Loved them from an early age as a kid.They were Beautiful.Inocent.Funny .My old Dad loved them too and I sang Trail of the Lonesome Pine at his Funeral- well I tried to.Different era but never forgotten.So much laughter
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,480
    edited February 2021
    Their seamless timing (as with all comedy), was all important, they had it off to a tee.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited February 2021
    SoundAsa£ said:
    soapboxsam said:
    Stan and Ollie and the Marx brothers were magic for me as a kid. I also liked the Road films with Eltham's finest Bob Hope and the man who last hit was a golf ball, Bing Crosby.
    ?....doesn’t make sense sam?

    What part SoundAsa£ ?

    That Bob Hope was born in Eltham or that the man who's last big hit was a golf ball.   Unfortunately Bing Crosby's last big hit was on a golf course and he died hours later after leaving the 18th.
    I consider 1977 fair game for a comedic response even if it's at the old crooner's expense.

  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,006
    The Bing Crosby joke has been doing the rounds since 1977.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    surprisingly good film, shall have to watch it again. Enjoyed their films as a kid, but they probably haven't aged as well as Abbot and Costello films.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    cafckev said:
    Saw it at the cinema and thought it is an excellent film
    Ditto.  A lovely film about a sad stage in the careers of two extremely funny men.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,791
    addick1956 said:
    captainbob said:
    Deciding who was funnier out of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton is as difficult as deciding who is the better footballer, Messi or Ronaldo. Yet, Keaton was decisive on the former question, stating, 'Chaplin wasn't the funniest. I wasn't the funniest. Stan Laurel was the funniest.'

    I wish the BBC would show the Laurel and Hardy films again, as they did in the Eighties, otherwise these classics will fade into obscurity. 
    I would add the Marx Bros to that list of genius.
    Sadly, quite a few of the Marx Bros' films don't do justice to their talent.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited February 2021
    Just finished watching, and what an excellent film. The acting was superb and the contrast in the two wives added to the strained relationship between Ollie and Stan. Quite sad but it captured the magic on stage even if it was about the end of their careers. 
    They really did receive a fantastic reception in Ireland and Stan the man from Ulverston, in Cumbria (Lancs, back in Stan's day)
    Was the polar opposite to his Character on stage and film.

  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Covered End said:
    The Bing Crosby joke has been doing the rounds since 1977.

    Very good CE.
    From memory I think the day after he died that joke was replicated up and down the country in 77.
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,275
    Really enjoyed watching that.  Thanks for putting it on here

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