Laurel & Hardy Classic Collection - Spooktacular

Laurel & Hardy Classic Collection - Spooktacular
Customer Review: Sweeps, suspects, sailors, suitors
SPOOKTACULARS showcases four shorts from Laurel & Hardy's golden Hal Roach Studios years. (VHS only) In DIRTY WORK, they're chimney sweeps who manage to destroy a professor's living room. In THE LAUREL-HARDY MURDER CASE, Stan's deceased uncle leaves him a huge estate. When the boys arrive for the will reading, they learn that Stan is a prime suspect in the old man's mysterious demise. THE LIVE GHOST is a seafaring yarn of a hijacked crew on a haunted ship piloted by a captain willing to do bodily harm to the first man who says the word "ghost." A drunken swab falls into a vat of whitewash, causing Stan & Ollie to shout out the "magic" word. OLIVER THE EIGHTH is the unsuspecting Ollie, who answers a personal ad placed by a rich but crazy widow with a penchant for bumping off husbands named "Oliver." BONUS: Home movie footage and photos of the boys at work and play, collected and narrated by Stan's daughter, Lois Laurel. (Note: this material is primarily Stan's amateur films of a kids' birthday party and such.) LAUREL & HARDY CLASSICS COLLECTION - ON THE LAM features these shorts: Another Fine Mess (1930), Going Bye Bye (1934), One Good Turn (1931), Scram! (1932). (VHS only) Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website. (7.5) Dirty Work (1933) - Stan Laurel/Oliver Hardy (uncredited: Lucien Littlefield/Sam Adams) (7.1) The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) - Stan Laurel/Oliver Hardy/Fred Kelsey/Dell Henderson/Frank Austin/Tiny Sandford/Stanley Blystone (7.2) The Live Ghost (1934) - Stan Laurel/Oliver Hardy/Walter Long/Mae Busch/Charlie Hall/Arthur Housman/Leo Willis (7.1) Oliver the Eighth (1934) - Stan Laurel/Oliver Hardy/Mae Busch/Jack Barty