 Flicker Alley
2025 Blu-ray Disc edition
Laurel & Hardy: Year Three (1927-1929), black & white, 181 minutes total, not rated, including Liberty (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Wrong Again (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, That’s My Wife (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Big Business (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Unaccustumed A We Are (1920) [silent version], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Unaccustumed A We Are (1920) [sound version], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Double Whoopee (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Berth Marks (1929) [silent version], black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Bacon Grabbers (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Angora Love (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, They Go Boom! (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and The Hoose-Gow (1929), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
Flicker Alley, FA0090, UPC 6-17311-00909-9.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Regions ABC Blu-ray Discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) 24 fps progressive scan image encoded in SDR AVC format at ? Mbps average video bit rate; LPCM 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Mbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, optional English language SDH subtitles; chapter stops; insert booklet; standard two-disc BD keepcase; $49.95.
Release date: 11 November 2025.
Country of origin: USA
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This Blu-ray Disc collection has been mastered from archival and private collection prints by FPS / Blackhawk Films. The collection has been curated by L&H historians Randy Skretvedt, Richard W. Bann, Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange.
The films are accompanied by music scores composed and performed by Neil Brand, Andreas Benz, Robert Israel and Maud Nelissen. Optional musical scores include the 1929 Vitaphone soundtracks for Liberty, Wrong Again, That’s My Wife, Bacon Grabbers and Angora Love.
Supplementary material includes audio commentaries for each film by L&H historians Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann; “Laurel & Hardy On-Location in Year Three,” a video essay by historian John Bengtson on selected location exteriors — always fascinating information and worth many viewings; an excerpt from The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) featuring Laurel & Hardy; a fragment from the Spanish version of Berth Marks (1929); a dubbed version of Double Whoopee (1929) dubbed in 1970 by Chuck McCann, included with an introduction from McCann’s presentation at the Hollywood Heritage Museum in 2013; MGM Convention 1930 Announcement, virtually unseen, Laurel and Hardy deliver a special message for MGM’s 1930 sales convention; an image gallery containing original publicity materials, press reviews and rare production stills; and an insert booklet featuring an introduction to the collection by Serge Bromberg and Leonard Maltin, notes on the restoration efforts by Serge Bromberg; and notes on each film by historian Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann.
For our comparative reviews of some of the individual films in this collection, see our Big Business on home video page.
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