Amazing. 101 year old film and I'm still sucked into watching it. Lol. I grew up watching these guys and the 3 stooges during the 80's, and it never gets old. The first laurel and hardy I saw was Birth Marks and I laughed sooo hard I was crying.....and I couldn't stop. These "comedians" now got nothing on these guys. They REALLY should have a L&H and 3 stooges channel.
Stan and Ollie were the best of the best. I think Stan was more funnier than Ollie and much more smarter. Each had the solo careers before teaming up together. History was made the day they got together.
This is a strange film in that nobody is certain when it was filmed. The only clue is a car licence plate that dates 1920. Though Stan claimed it was filmed much earlier 1917. Perhaps, though both dates are correct, part of it was film in 1917 and rest in 1920. The release date is known though 1921. And it survived because it was misplaced and later rediscovered. Many films of time were shown then recorded over. This one simply was forgot and nobody bothered to destroy it.
@@StacieMMeier Hi Stacie! Here are the production and release dates for THE LUCKY DOG, according to author Randy Skretvedt’s “Laurel & Hardy: The Magic Behind The Movies - The Ultimate Edition" (2016, 2019). “Written and filmed mid-to-late January, 1921. Released circa December 1921 by Reelcraft as part of the Sun-lite comedy series. No copyright registration exists for this film.” I believe the lack of an existing copyright registration is what made the year of release so hard to nail down for so many decades. I do remember reading several years back that this took a lot of detective work! It didn't help that most existing Public Domain prints only consist of short excerpts. If you're even a casual Laurel & Hardy fan, I cannot recommend the above book highly enough! CHEERS!!
This teaming almost didn't happen at all. I was a little shocked when I read in my Charley Chase biography that Stan came to Pathe' studios in the 1910s; after he made just 4 silent movies , he LEFT the studio and went to Pantages to be on the stage again !!! Charley Chase was already working steady there, and he went to the theater and enjoyed Stans comedy enough that he coaxed him to go back and make more movies ...
+John Greene Eye liner make up was used during the silent period to highlight the eyes, the films had trouble getting focus on the eyes bc they would be almost reflective to the camera, the dark eye liner acted as a border or gave a shadowing affect so that the camera could focus the eyes better
There is debate when it was filmed. Laurel claimed it was filmed in 1917, War Debt, was around then. Because of this, it is likely Laurel was correct. However, a strange twist, part of movie shows a car with a licence plate of 1920. So it is likely that part of movie was filmed in 1917 through 1918. And rest during 1920. This wasn't uncommon though, and many at this era are unknown exactly when they were filmed. Either way, movie was released in 1921 and because of a fluke, it managed to survive. Which is a good thing...
@@StacieMMeier It was filmed during January 1921 and released on October 10th 1921. It was Florence Gilbert's 10th movie. She started in films in 1920 at the age of 16.
Has someone noticed that Stan Laurels face gestures are very similar to Herman Monster (Fred Gwynne) used to do too? Or its oly me that noticed this...LOL
Did this film catch the attention of Hal Roach that lead to his signing Of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as as a comedy duo some five years later? I await your reply.
@@shawnsmith5028 I checked wikipedia. It did not say anything about this film ,that the accidental appearance Of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, caught the attention of Hal Roach, before signing them as a comedy duo 5 years later.
Think of this: the girl in the film is Florence Gilbert. According to www.imdb.com/name/nm0318045/ she was born in 1904. If this was filmed in 1917, she'd be only 13! She was 16 in 1920 which is still a little young, but is much more believable.
That's because his pale blue eyes were hard to photograph on camera so they had to heavily paint his eyelids black in order to draw less attention to his eerily white eyes.
From wiki The precise date that the film was shot is not recorded. It had long been thought to have been made in 1917, partially due to comments Stan made about it during an interview in 1957. But it had also been dated to 1918 and 1919.However, on the basis of an examination of the dates that Stan was available for filming, and the appearance of a 1920 car license plate in one shot of the complete film, the most likely date filming took place is in the latter part of 1920 and into early 1921.The film was released for distribution in late 1921 by Reelcraft. .................................................................................................…..............:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.......................................................................................📻wiki
+horacetwiddlepass No he didn't. If you mean he took a break in 1917 perhaps. Though it seems strange a couple people who remembered the film being produce claimed it was filmed during 1917 and 1918 (For example Hardy claimed it was 1918 to 1919.) There is one likely possibility for the car licence, it was a long term one for lot usage, which did exist then (The Licence for those had the date they ran out not the date of year it was current). Most likely and highly likely they did a test shoot for stunts in 1917 and did the rest later.
"The Lucky Dog" title card released with film shows 1917, why would that be wrong. AFI site has it as 1917. In an iterview with Laurel one weeks after Hardy's death he said it was made in 1917 (time 6:30 to 8:30) in Stan Laurel Interview August 14th - 1957.
@ free - In that Art Friedman interview he says it was "around" that time, but he also says he worked with Babe again "a couple of years" later. It was in fact 5 years, and Stan's memory for such things was never reliable. On a visit to his home he was asked to list all his early films before Roach and he started with "Just Nuts" which was a Harold Lloyd film. Stan's first film was Nuts In May, an understandable slip. All the documentation refers to 1921, with production in January and release in October, with copyright registration in the meantime. Stan only got into the business in 1917 with Nuts In May and Hardy was contracted to Vim with the Plump and Runt series. No movies involving Jess Robbins were made between 1914 and 1918. www.imdb.com/title/tt0013341/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The title card is also wrong about the director, Jess Robbins. Obviously a later addition. It was released on October 10th 1921. Florence Gilbert didn't start in pictures until 1920.
+planetX15 It was released on 10th October 1921 and there's a car with 1920 number plates in one scene. It also refers to Bolsheviks, who only became prominent in 1917, and in the days before "normal" communications, they weren't really known much until later. Someone also said that the tramcar was a later model than 1917, but I don't know. It could have been produced in more than one session of course.
