Hal Roach
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 153 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beyond tomorrow: An It's a Wonderful Life-type holiday tale about three elderly ghosts who try to help a young couple whom they knew before they died in a plane crash.
A Christmas carol: Early version of Dicken's classic.
Our gang's Christmas (aka Good Cheer): Hal Roach's silent gang of "little rascals" in a Yuletide tale where the kids earn Christmas money by selling heated bricks to shoppers with cold feet.
Santa Claus vs. Cupid: An offbeat holiday...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 4 hr.) : sound & silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Bear shooters: Wanting the seclusion of the unspoiled wilderness, the Gang packs up their wagon and heads for the woods. They had better watch out for the crook in the bear suit. School's out: When Jackie develops a crush on his teacher, Miss Crabtree, the Gang devises a plan to discourage her new suitor who is really her visiting brother. Our Gang follies of 1938: A musical extravaganza featuring the singing and dancing of the Gang. Waldo's last...
7) The Little Rascals: Volume 2,The best of Pete the pooch.Spanky, Alfalfa & Darla's memorable episodes
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
2 videodisc (428 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The focus is on Our Gang's most memorable characters- Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla and Pete the Pooch- in this two-disc collection of hilarious episodes, now in color for the very first time.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This collection contains all of the classic Laurel & Hardy sound-era short subjects and feature films from the Hal Roach Library. Also included are seven rarely seen, expanded foreign film alternate versions, four Laurel & Hardy guest appearance shorts, three theatrical film trailers, and two original release version shorts. Includes commentary by comedians, classic film experts and historians.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Cook : When a tough guy annoys the pretty cashier, the waiter and a feisty dog come to her defense. A reckless romeo : A philandering husband is caught when his attempts at indiscretion are filmed by a newsreel camerman. Number please: a man chases his girlfriend's dog around a seaside resort, on the roller-coaster and merry-go-round.
11) Topper returns
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The third in the Topper comedy-mystery series, Cosmo (Roland Young) is besieged by a wisecracking ghost (Joan Blondell) who demands that he help her find her killer. The story is set in Carrington Hall, a magnificent old haunted house, complete with a cloaked villain who comes and goes through walls. Falling chandeliers, secret passages, and a trap door with a chute that leads to an underground tunnel adds to the mystery. The cast of characters includes...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Spanky and his rascally friends as they discover the strange wonder of a magic lamp, coax their well-to-do pal into a forbidden game of mud football, and put on a splashy musical number - dressed as girls!
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (1344 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For generations, Our Gang comedies have been enjoyed by millions of fans the world over. Now, you can see The Little Rascals like never before with restorations so glorious, it will be like watching these iconic shorts for the first time! In 1922, producer Hal Roach introduced the kiddie troupe known as "Our Gang" to theater audiences and kicked off one of the most popular and prolific franchises in the field of short subjects, with 220 one- and...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (271 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Topper: Cosmo Topper, a shy, stuffed-shirt banker, finds his life turned upside-down by two fun-loving ghosts who enter his world to bring some fun into his life for their needed "good deed". Topper takes a trip: Marian Kirby, one of the ghosts from Topper returns into his life so she can join her husband "up there" by helping the meek banker. Topper returns: Topper turns amateur detective as the ghost of a beautiful murdered girl enlists him to try...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Description
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Little Rascals get lost in a haunted house; race down a precarious hill in their homemade fire engine; and try to survive an unexpected visit from the famous 'Wild Man of Borneo.'
18) Of mice and men
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife.
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Big business: Classic tale of door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen. Do detectives think? Hilarious happenings with dumb dicks on the loose. Call of the cuckoo: Hoping to escape "cuckoo" neighbors, Papa Gimpelwart buys a new house, but the old neighbors show up at the housewarming. Finishing touch: Laurel and Hardy build a house which collapses under the weight of a bird. On the front page: Early comedy shows developing character of "Stan." Hustling...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (204 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This collection contains all of the classic Laurel & Hardy sound-era short subjects and feature films from the Hal Roach Library. Also included are seven rarely seen, expanded foreign film alternate versions, four Laurel & Hardy guest appearance shorts, three theatrical film trailers, and two original release version shorts.