It hasn’t been hard to find something approaching the complete works of Keaton, Chaplin, Lloyd, and Langdon on DVD in recent years, but when I wanted to purchase the Laurel & Hardy opus, I had to order a 21-disc box set available only in the UK and deal with all the region and formatting conflicts. All that has now changed with the release of a 10-disc box set suitable for the region 1, NTSC market, Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection.True, this has only 32+ hours of footage, as opposed to 68+ on the British set, but then who’s counting?
I haven’t reviewed the British box set because, not surprisingly, I haven’t found the time to plow through it, and I haven’t seen this one yet either, but there’s a big article on it in today’s New York Times, which you can read here. Here’s a brief excerpt from the review:
The list price is $100, but Amazon is selling it for $65.
