Hello Laurel & Hardy friends,
Our next Laurel & Hardy film show will be on Wednesday Septober 18th, 7.30pm till 10.30 pm at the THE BRIDGE INN on Longmoor Lane, Sandiacre NG10 5LW – in the outside function room.
This month we will be paying a small tribute not just to one…nor two…but three major supporting actors in our attempt to catch up with the birthday anniversaries in our L&H colander for the past month. These are Charlie Hall (August 19th 1899), James Finlayson (August 27th 1887) and Billy Gilbert (September 12th 1894). As previously promised, you will be able to select the 2 or 3 reeler talkie short L&H films we will watch….you will also be given a choice of it being shown in black/white or in color. I will help to shape the evening by offering you a choice of film from 2, 3 or 4 selected films that features one or more of our celebrated supporting actors for each actor. Confused…you will be!!
We will however start the evening with a short silent film from the restored 1927 films US Blu-ray boxset. This will be “Duck Soup” which was based on a script written by Stan’s father, Arthur Jefferson, for the stage in 1908 entitled “Home from the Honeymoon”. This silent film was later reworked into the 3-reeler “Another Fine Mess” in 1930…so will be familiar to you. This is being shown in celebration of Stan’s father, whose university of his birth is also this month…September 12th, 1862.
There will be the usual raffle, toasts….and yes I’ll show yet another fine L&H based cartoon in the intermission. As we have now shown all of the known and extant cartoons from before and during the war when Stan & Ollie were actively making films, we are now moving into the post war and modern era. We will start this with a short Warners brothers cartoon from Feb 1946 entitled “Holiday for Shoestrings” where Stan and Ollie are elves to a Shoemaker.
As always, the event is FREE and all are welcome to come and enjoy the show.
I’ve not seen too many references to L&H on the box recently but if you haven’t seen it yet there’s a superb documentary entitled Laurel&Hardy:Their Lives & Magic that is still available/being aired from time to time on the Sky Arts channel.
Our next meeting is on our usual 3rd wednesday in the month, Octember 16th when we will be screening “Flying Deuces” and paying a tribute to Charles “this is no place for levity” Middleton and Arthur “hic” Housman.
Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday.
Fraternally Yours,
Dave T
(Grand Sheikh – Nottingham Beau Hunks tent)