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The Lost Films of
Laurel and Hardy
Volume Five
(1924-1929)

Contents: Short Kilts (1924), Duck Soup (1927), Fluttering Hearts (1927), Habeas Corpus (1928), Leave ’em Laughing (1928) and Wrong Again (1929).

Hal Roach Studios
2000 DVD edition

The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, The Complete Collection, Volume Five (1924-1929), black & white, 126 minutes total, not rated, including Short Kilts (1924), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Duck Soup (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Fluttering Hearts (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Habeas Corpus (1928), black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, Leave ’em Laughing (1928), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Wrong Again (1929), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated.

Hal Roach Studios, distributed by Image Entertainment,
HRS4795, UPC 0-14381-47952-2.
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 5.4 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 subtitles; 6 chapter stops; snapper DVD case (reissued in standard DVD keepcase); $29.99.
Release date: 14 March 2000.
Country of origin: USA •

This DVD collection has been mastered from 35mm print elements. We have seen some of the films on laserdisc and VHS videotape, and we have seen other DVD releases in this series. Our hipshot opinion of the DVD 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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