If you'd like to see actual Laurel and Hardy films starring the actual Laurel and Hardy, set your TiVo or DVR for Turner Classic Movies next Monday night, January 7. Starting at 8 PM on my TV (yours may vary), they're running a batch of great Stan and Ollie movies…and one of their weakest. The films are, in order: The Music Box, Busy Bodies, Way Out West, Sons of the Desert, Tit for Tat, Swiss Miss, Pack Up Your Troubles, Air Raid Wardens, Brats and A Chump at Oxford.
The Music Box, Busy Bodies, Tit for Tat and Brats are shorts. The Music Box is the best of these and Tit for Tat is, in my opinion, the weakest. Tit for Tat was a sequel to a short called Them Thar Hills and usually when TCM runs Tit for Tat, they run Them Thar Hills right before it.
The rest are features and the two best in there are Way Out West and Sons of the Desert. The one to miss is Air Raid Wardens, which may be the least funny movie they made. It's the only one of this batch that they didn't make for the Hal Roach Studio.