Hello Laurel & Hardy friends,
Our next Laurel & Hardy film show will be on Wednesday Octember 16th, 7.30pm till 10.30 pm at the THE BRIDGE INN on Longmoor Lane, Sandiacre NG10 5LW – in the outside function room.
This month is Halloween and we have a spooktacular Laurel & Hardy show lined up for you with frights a plenty. Our main feature of the evening will be “The Flying Deuces”from 1939. This aerial antics film, which is based on “Beau Hunks”, has been in the Public Domain for many years and sadly there are many poor copies out there on VHS and DVD. We hope to show the best available copy of the film which was restored in High Definition and distributed on Blu-ray by Network in 2015. The film ends in a rather frightful flight with a rather unexpected ending. The film is significantly supported by Charles “This is no place for Levity” Middleton and to a much lesser extent Arthur “hiccup” Housman. As it is their birthdays this month, we will be paying a small tribute to both of them. Specifically, Arthur was born 135 years ago today on Oct 10th 1889; and Charles was born 150 years ago on oct 3rd 1874. As Arthur only plays a very small part in Flying Deuces as a drunk legionnaire (if you blink you’ll miss him), we will be showing two Laurel & Hardy films where he plays a much bigger role…indeed, as a drunk in both films.
We will however start the evening with yet another fine short silent film from the restored 1927 films US Blu-ray boxset. This will be “Do Detectives Think?” which has a frightening ghostly ending.
There will be the usual raffle, toasts….and yes I’ll show yet another fine L&H based cartoon in the intermission. This month..I’m going to move the time dial forward to 1966 and show one of the 156 short cartoons produced in just two series by Hanna Barbera for Larry Harmon entitled The Laurel & Hardy Show. This was a cartoon series created for children’s TV. They are certainly not as creative and funny as the ones we’ve already seen from the 1930s/40s but unlike the earlier cartoons, the Boys play the lead role. They are worth showing from a historical basis as they launched a lot of L&H (Larry Harmon cartoon) memorabilia (eg comics, annuals, games, figurines). Better still, they created a new generation of fans at a time when the original L&H films were not readily accessible. We will certainly not be showing all 156 cartoons. Firstly this is because I don’t have them all and secondly I think you will find them a bit annoying after a while!! But, I will occasionally throw an odd one in particularly if it supports our show theme. Tonight I will show episode no 8 of 156, entitled “High Fly Guys” from 24 sept 1966…this has flying parallels with our main feature.
As always, the event is FREE and all are welcome to come and enjoy the show.
Our next meeting is on our usual 3rd wednesday in the month, Nowonder 20th.
Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday.
Fraternally Yours,
Dave T
(Grand Sheikh – Nottingham Beau Hunks tent)
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