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"

Twice Two Year: 1933 Directed by: James Parrott Duration: 20m DVD Availability: Try sendit.com (region 2 only) Viewpoint: "You've forgotten more than he'll ever know!" Probably up there with stuff like The Chimp as a Laurel and Hardy short you could sit pre-schoolers happily down in front of. When I was five the sight of Stan and Ollie in dresses with dubbed-on voices seemed like the funniest thing in the world to me. Nowadays it seems, if anything, disturbing. Crossdressing is an old standby, of course, and Stan had been doing it since back in his solo days. There's also the silent That's My Wife, where he becomes Mrs. Hardy, but this one feels more like a soul relative of Brats. Technically, it's very good - the lip-synching is much stronger than in the later Thicker Than Water, and the split screens are stunning for the period. Yet the main difference between this and Brats is that Brats had more energy and imagination beyond its base premise. With Twice Two it's deemed enough to have the leads doubling up in drag and not much else. This laziness extends towards the climax, which deems a cake in someone's face a worthy denouement. There's no attempt to innovate here or push the boundaries of comedy - it's just another off the treadmill short, beefed up by a gimmick. Disappointing.