Laurel and Hardy Ranked
A ranking of Laurel and Hardy's film performances.
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- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyCharley ChaseWhen Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
- DirectorGus MeinsCharley RogersStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyVirginia KarnsOpposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJames FinlaysonOliver suffers a nervous breakdown as a result of working in a horn factory, but when he follows doctor's orders about sea air, he finds an ex-con is aboard.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyAlan HaleTwo pairs of long-lost twin brothers experience high jinks involving a valuable ring, cases of mistaken identity, and gangsters.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJean ParkerOllie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyTrudy MarshallTwo bumbling dance teachers help an awkward inventor sell his new invention and facilitate his romance with a beautiful socialite.
- DirectorJames W. HorneCharley RogersHal RoachStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyThelma ToddA band of Gypsies is camped outside the walls of Count Arnheim's palace. Oliver's wife kidnaps the Count's daughter Arline, then leaves the child and runs off with her lover, Devilshoof. Not knowing her true identity, Oliver, with "Uncle" Stanley's help, raises the girl as his own. Years later, Arline, still unaware of her noble birth, is caught trespassing on the Count's grounds and thrown into the dungeon. Meanwhile, Stanley and Oliver pass the time playing "fingers" and bumblingly ply their trade picking pockets. Finally, just when Oliver needs his help to rescue Arline, Stanley gets drunk while siphoning wine into bottles.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardySharon LynnStanley and Ollie are enlisted to deliver the deed to a goldmine in a small village, only for it to be stolen.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyPatricia EllisStan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallRay McCareyHarry BlackStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyDon DillawayTwo war veterans help an orphaned child find her grandfather.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyDanteStan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyForrester HarveyAs a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarships to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJune MarloweTwo guys end up in prison after attempting to sell beer to a policeman during Prohibition.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneHal RoachStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyGrete NatzlerLaurel and Hardy, rat trap salesmen who are unable to do business in Switzerland, having no money to pay for lunch end up working for the hotel where a composer, who has run away from his wife, has taken refuge.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStan LaurelStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMargo WoodeBumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the vengeful Richard K. Muldoon, who spent time in prison on Stan's bogus testimony.
- DirectorLionel BarrymoreHal RoachStarsLawrence TibbettCatherine Dale OwenNance O'NeilIn tsarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
- DirectorHal RoachCharley RogersStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyDennis KingTwo wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman who secretly masquerades as notorious outlaw Fra Diavolo.
- DirectorLéo JoannonJohn BerryAlfred J. GouldingStarsStan LaurelOliver HardySuzy DelairStan inherits a yacht and a South Pacific island. Ollie and Stan sail there with 2 other men. They shipwreck on a new atoll and settle there. An ex-fiancee joins them. They declare an independent nation and problems arise.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyEdgar KennedyTwo bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsStan LaurelOliver HardySheila RyanLaurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer will need them now he's drafted.
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiAllan DwanEdmund GouldingStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJimmy DuranteJimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party for him so that he might use the lions in his next movie, but his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante can.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyVivian BlaineThe boys team up with a likable con man to help a pretty singer's mother who's been taken in by swindlers.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsJack HaleyRosina LawrencePatsy KellyA Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyDoris MerrickDuring World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.