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Not-on-DVD Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Blotto NEW Rare LaserDisc Comedy

Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Blotto NEW Rare LaserDisc Comedy

Slapstick Comedy at its Best - Not on DVD

Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Blotto NEW Rare LaserDisc Comedy

Slapstick Comedy at its Best - Not on DVD

Mega-Rare Factory-Sealed LaserDisc Movie "Blotto" Not on DVD Near-Mint Condition

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Laurel & Hardy Sons of the Desert Blotto NEW Rare LaserDisc Comedy

Slapstick Comedy at its Best - Not on DVD

Mega-Rare Factory-Sealed LaserDisc Movie "Blotto" Not on DVD Near-Mint Condition

$17.97

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Mega-Rare Factory-Sealed LaserDisc Movie "Blotto" Not on DVD

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Laurel and Hardy in...

Sons of the Desert

Blotto

( Catalog Number M16 )
(1.33:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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"Blotto" Not on DVD
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Sons of the Desert
1933 - 73 min. - Black and White
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read: annual binge) in Chicago. That is, Ollie takes the oath, but Stanley balks. When asked why, Stanley answers that he's afraid his wife won't let him go. Ollie is appalled: "Every man must be king in his own castle." But when Ollie meekly brings up the subject of the convention with his wife Lollie (Mae Busch), she soon dethrones the "king." Lollie wants to take a vacation in the mountains, and is dead-set against her husband going around "with a pack of hooligans." But Ollie is determined to attend the convention, and to that end cooks up a scheme with Stanley. Ollie will pretend to be deathly ill; Stan will fix it so the doctor will prescribe a trip to Honolulu. Knowing that his wife can't stand going on sea voyages, Ollie will request that Stan accompany him to Hawaii---then, both men will sneak off to Chicago. A few hitches notwithstanding (Stan hires a veterinarian instead of a doctor, explaining that he didn't think the man's religion would make any difference), the boys go to the convention, where they cut up royally with practical joker Charley Chase. Alas, the Honolulu-bound boat on which Stan and Ollie are supposed to be travelling is sunk in a typhoon. While the grief-stricken wives are at the steamship company attempting to find out if their husbands survived the sea disaster, Stan and Ollie arrive home, wearing leis and carrying pineapples as "evidence" of their Honolulu vacation. When the boys find out about the shipwreck, they desperately try to escape to a hotel, but the wives arrive home prematurely, forcing Stan and Ollie to camp out in the attic. It looks as though the boys might just get away with their new plan of coming home at the same time that the rescue boats arrive....until Lollie Hardy and Betty Laurel (Dorothy Christie), attending a picture show, are treated to the spectacle of their husbands cavorting merrily before the newsreel cameras covering the Sons of the Desert conclave in Chicago. The film's final ten minutes are priceless---especially that bit about "ship-hiking." Considered the best of Laurel and Hardy's feature films, One of the top ten moneymaking pictures of 1934, it was released in Europe as Fraternally Yours and Sons of the Legion, and is also available in a crudely edited 20-minute TV version, Fun on the Run. --- Hal Erickson

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made many successful comedies in the 1930s, but none was as big a hit or as well-realized a feature as the lunatic Sons of the Desert. Hands-down the best Laurel and Hardy feature, it's a complicated tale of two henpecked husbands who scheme to ditch their wives and attend a fraternal organization's festive meeting in Chicago. The sight gags, slapstick, and repartee are all top-notch. Written by Frank Craven and Byron Morgan and directed by William A. Seiter, Sons of the Desert shows how entertaining the fat-and-thin comedy team, who often weren't given much to work with, could be when they had rich material. Sons of the Desert puts movies like Dumb and Dumber into perspective: nobody plays stupidity better than Laurel and Hardy. --- Michael Betzold

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Blotto
1930 - 25 min. - Black and White
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
It seems to be an evening of quiet domestic bliss near the old fireside. Mrs. Laurel is seated at a bridge table playing solitaire as her husband, dressed in a smoking jacket, enjoys his long-stemmed Sherlock Holmes-type pipe and tries to read a Hebrew newspaper. When the kept-at-home Stan decides he needs fresh air, however, his suspicious wife (Anita Garvin) disapprove

Cast for Sons of the Desert

Stan Laurel - Stanley
Oliver Hardy - Oliver
Charley Chase - Charley
Mae Busch - Lottie Hardy
Lucien Littlefield - Dr. Horace Meddick
William Gillespie - A Son of the Desert
Pat Harmon
Charles Hall - Waiter
Billy Gilbert - Voice of Steamship Official [Voice]
Al Thompson
Max Wagner
Sam Lufkin
John Merton - A Son of the Desert
Philo McCullough - Assistant Exhausted Ruler
Charley Young - A Son of the Desert
Harry Bernard - Bartender
Harry Bernard - Police Officer
Stanley Blystone - Bit
Ernie Alexander
Eddie Baker
Jimmy Aubrey
John Elliott - Exalted Exhausted Ruler
Baldwin Cooke
Robert Cummings
Chet Brandenberg
Don Brodie - Sons of the Desert Coterie
Dorothy Christie - Betty Laurel
Robert Burns



Cast for Blotto

Oliver Hardy as Oliver
Stan Laurel as Stanley
Anita Garvin as Mrs. Laurel
Baldwin Cooke as Waiter
Dick Gilbert as Phone booth man
J. Frank Holliday as Singer

Crew for Sons of the Desert

William Seiter - Director
Hal Roach - Producer
Frank Craven - Screenwriter
Byron Morgan - Screenwriter
Kenneth Peach - Cinematographer
Marvin Hatley - Composer (Music Score)
LeRoy Shield - Composer (Music Score)
Bert Jordan - Editor
David Bennett - Choreography




Crew for Blotto

Directed By: 	James Parrott
Written By: 	H.M. Walker, Leo McCarey

Feature Details

Title: Sons of the Desert
Feature Release Date: 1933
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 73 Minutes
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV

IMDB Info...

Title 2: Blotto
Feature 2 Release Date: 1930
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 25 Minutes
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV

IMDB 2 Info...

Technical Details

Catalog Number: M16
UPC: Does not apply
ISBN: none
Manufacturer: 3M or IMATION
Publisher: 3M Home Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: M16-N
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Mega-Rare Factory-Sealed LaserDisc Movie "Blotto" Not on DVD

Near-Mint Condition

Laurel and Hardy in...

Sons of the Desert

Blotto

( Catalog Number M16 )
(1.33:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
"Blotto" Not on DVD
LaserDiscs

Sons of the Desert
1933 - 73 min. - Black and White
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read: annual binge) in Chicago. That is, Ollie takes the oath, but Stanley balks. When asked why, Stanley answers that he's afraid his wife won't let him go. Ollie is appalled: "Every man must be king in his own castle." But when Ollie meekly brings up the subject of the convention with his wife Lollie (Mae Busch), she soon dethrones the "king." Lollie wants to take a vacation in the mountains, and is dead-set against her husband going around "with a pack of hooligans." But Ollie is determined to attend the convention, and to that end cooks up a scheme with Stanley. Ollie will pretend to be deathly ill; Stan will fix it so the doctor will prescribe a trip to Honolulu. Knowing that his wife can't stand going on sea voyages, Ollie will request that Stan accompany him to Hawaii---then, both men will sneak off to Chicago. A few hitches notwithstanding (Stan hires a veterinarian instead of a doctor, explaining that he didn't think the man's religion would make any difference), the boys go to the convention, where they cut up royally with practical joker Charley Chase. Alas, the Honolulu-bound boat on which Stan and Ollie are supposed to be travelling is sunk in a typhoon. While the grief-stricken wives are at the steamship company attempting to find out if their husbands survived the sea disaster, Stan and Ollie arrive home, wearing leis and carrying pineapples as "evidence" of their Honolulu vacation. When the boys find out about the shipwreck, they desperately try to escape to a hotel, but the wives arrive home prematurely, forcing Stan and Ollie to camp out in the attic. It looks as though the boys might just get away with their new plan of coming home at the same time that the rescue boats arrive....until Lollie Hardy and Betty Laurel (Dorothy Christie), attending a picture show, are treated to the spectacle of their husbands cavorting merrily before the newsreel cameras covering the Sons of the Desert conclave in Chicago. The film's final ten minutes are priceless---especially that bit about "ship-hiking." Considered the best of Laurel and Hardy's feature films, One of the top ten moneymaking pictures of 1934, it was released in Europe as Fraternally Yours and Sons of the Legion, and is also available in a crudely edited 20-minute TV version, Fun on the Run. --- Hal Erickson

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made many successful comedies in the 1930s, but none was as big a hit or as well-realized a feature as the lunatic Sons of the Desert. Hands-down the best Laurel and Hardy feature, it's a complicated tale of two henpecked husbands who scheme to ditch their wives and attend a fraternal organization's festive meeting in Chicago. The sight gags, slapstick, and repartee are all top-notch. Written by Frank Craven and Byron Morgan and directed by William A. Seiter, Sons of the Desert shows how entertaining the fat-and-thin comedy team, who often weren't given much to work with, could be when they had rich material. Sons of the Desert puts movies like Dumb and Dumber into perspective: nobody plays stupidity better than Laurel and Hardy. --- Michael Betzold

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Reviews, Articles, Newsletter and Information for Movies on LaserDisc LD Laser Disc, LazerDisc.

Blotto
1930 - 25 min. - Black and White
Genre: Comedy
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
It seems to be an evening of quiet domestic bliss near the old fireside. Mrs. Laurel is seated at a bridge table playing solitaire as her husband, dressed in a smoking jacket, enjoys his long-stemmed Sherlock Holmes-type pipe and tries to read a Hebrew newspaper. When the kept-at-home Stan decides he needs fresh air, however, his suspicious wife (Anita Garvin) disapprove

Cast for Sons of the Desert

Stan Laurel - Stanley
Oliver Hardy - Oliver
Charley Chase - Charley
Mae Busch - Lottie Hardy
Lucien Littlefield - Dr. Horace Meddick
William Gillespie - A Son of the Desert
Pat Harmon
Charles Hall - Waiter
Billy Gilbert - Voice of Steamship Official [Voice]
Al Thompson
Max Wagner
Sam Lufkin
John Merton - A Son of the Desert
Philo McCullough - Assistant Exhausted Ruler
Charley Young - A Son of the Desert
Harry Bernard - Bartender
Harry Bernard - Police Officer
Stanley Blystone - Bit
Ernie Alexander
Eddie Baker
Jimmy Aubrey
John Elliott - Exalted Exhausted Ruler
Baldwin Cooke
Robert Cummings
Chet Brandenberg
Don Brodie - Sons of the Desert Coterie
Dorothy Christie - Betty Laurel
Robert Burns



Cast for Blotto

Oliver Hardy as Oliver
Stan Laurel as Stanley
Anita Garvin as Mrs. Laurel
Baldwin Cooke as Waiter
Dick Gilbert as Phone booth man
J. Frank Holliday as Singer

Crew for Sons of the Desert

William Seiter - Director
Hal Roach - Producer
Frank Craven - Screenwriter
Byron Morgan - Screenwriter
Kenneth Peach - Cinematographer
Marvin Hatley - Composer (Music Score)
LeRoy Shield - Composer (Music Score)
Bert Jordan - Editor
David Bennett - Choreography




Crew for Blotto

Directed By: 	James Parrott
Written By: 	H.M. Walker, Leo McCarey

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