Silent Films: pre-team 1921-1927 Laurel and Hardy Silents 1927 Laurel and Hardy Silents 1928 Laurel and Hardy Silents 1929 Laurel and Hardy sound films (alphabetical order): A-Haunting We Will Go Air Raid Wardens Another Fine Mess Any Old Port! Atoll K (aka Utopia) Babes In Toyland Beau Hunks Be Big! Below Zero Berth Marks The Big Noise Block-Heads Blotto The Bohemian Girl Bonnie Scotland Brats The Bullfighters Busy Bodies Chickens Come Home - The Chimp A Chump At Oxford Come Clean County Hospital The Dancing Masters The Devil's Brother aka Fra Diavolo Dirty Work The Fixer Uppers The Flying Deuces Fra Diavolo aka The Devil's Brother Going Bye-Bye! Great Guns Helpmates Hog Wild The Hoose-Gow Jitterbugs Laughing Gravy The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case The Live Ghost Me And My Pal Men O'War The Midnight Patrol The Music Box Night Owls Nothing But Trouble Oliver The Eighth One Good Turn Our Relations Our Wife Pack Up Your Troubles Pardon Us Perfect Day Saps At Sea Scram! Sons of the Desert Swiss Miss Their First Mistake Them Thar Hills They Go Boom! Thicker Than Water Tit For Tat Towed In A Hole Twice Two Unaccustomed As We Are Utopia (aka Atoll K) Way Out West Specials: Cameos Cartoons For Love Or Mummy Laurel and Hardy Memories "Stan"

Perfect Day Year: 1929 Directed by: James Parrott Duration: 19m DVD Availability: Try sendit.com (region 2 only) Viewpoint: "We're going now." "I hope so." It's amazing how in most instances a Laurel and Hardy film succeeds, but occasionally it just inexplicably doesn't work. A Perfect Day is one such example, where James Parrott's staid, leaden direction jars badly with overlaboured physical setpieces and terribly disjointed stock music. To give the short its due, it was only their fourth sound picture, and even though their voices are so right, even Stan and Ollie seem a little off-beam in this one. Yet while Parrott can helm a great L & H vehicle - Below Zero, The Music Box - most of his seventeen entries are a little lacking - Be Big!, The Chimp, Another Fine Mess et al. That's not to say that A Perfect Day is without its moments, just that it seems so staged. Often you feel as if Parrott had just placed a camera in front of the stars and told them to ad-lib. Great bits include the window smashing, the extended goodbyes and Ollie ("Don't call me Ollie!") getting blown across the road by his own car. Yet the clutch scene is just too dumb and cheap even for Stan, and this isn't their most sophisticated effort. Half a dozen shorts later and they're undertaking social commentary. Here's it's just enough for Stan to make a clearly pre-timed prattfall in a plate of sandwiches.