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The Lost Films of
Laurel and Hardy
Volume Seven
(1927-1934)

Contents: Sailors, Beware! (1927), With Love and Hisses (1927), Should Married Men Go Home? (1928), Double Whoopee (1929) [modern talkie version], Unaccustomed As We Are — (1929) [talkie version] and Mixed Nuts (1934).

Hal Roach Studios
2000 DVD edition

The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy, The Complete Collection, Volume Seven (1927-1934), black & white, 130 minutes total, not rated, including Sailors, Beware! (1927), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, With Love and Hisses (1927), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated, Should Married Men Go Home? (1928), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Double Whoopee (1929) [modern talkie version], black & white, 19 minutes, not rated, Unaccustomed As We Are — (1929) [talkie version], black & white, 21 minutes, not rated, and Mixed Nuts (1934), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated.

Hal Roach Studios, distributed by Image Entertainment,
HRS4797, UPC 0-14381-47972-0.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 3.8 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at 256 Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; 6 chapter stops; snapper DVD case (reissued in standard DVD keepcase); $29.99.
Release date: 30 May 2000.
Country of origin: USA •

This DVD collection has been mastered from 35mm print elements. We have seen some of the films on laserdisc and VHS videotape, and we have seen other DVD releases in this series. Our hipshot opinion of the DVD, sight unseen, is that some films will look very good (transferred from the original 35mm negatives) and others may be passable at best, usually films transferred from the best surviving material in the possession of Hal Roach Studios.

Read our review of volume three in this series for an idea of what to expect from this release.

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