#Best laurel and hardy movies ever movie#

#Best laurel and hardy movies ever movie#

In the early 1930s, over a third of all movie theatres closed down and studios such as RKO and Fox, that had previously recorded annual profits in the millions of dollars per year, suddenly found themselves bankrupt. Walker would eventually fall at the swinging of GinsbergвЂ™s cost-cutting axe. In fact, key members of Roach staff including Currier, George Stevens and possibly even H.M. Stan Laurel nicknamed Ginsberg вЂThe ExpeditorвЂ™ and Richard Currier, as Craig Calman tells us in his biography of Hal Roach, was quoted as saying вЂњEverybody hated GinsbergвЂќ. Speed and efficiency became the order of the day and there was little room for sentiment. Ginsberg appears to have been very efficient and effective in this role, but it earned him few friends on the lot. Financial pressures were such that five months later, Roach would bring in Henry Ginsberg to assist him as a Vice President and General Manager of the studio and oversee the cutting of costs wherever possible. After the fiscally devastating Wall Street crash in September and October 1929, all the main movie studios felt the impact of the Great Depression that followed, including RoachвЂ™s вЂLot of FunвЂ™. So reported The Film Daily, 28th June, 1931.В ItвЂ™s unclear as to the exact reasons for the вЂfive and one planвЂ™ that Roach introduced, but an educated guess may point the finger at a cost-cutting exercise, this was after all, the height of the Great Depression in the United States and Hollywood was certainly not immune to it. Laurel and Hardy have started in вЂњOne Good TurnвЂќ under the direction of James HorneвЂ¦вЂќ вЂњ Hal Roach, who is now working under a вЂњfive and oneвЂќ plan, meaning five weeks of production and one week of vacation throughout the 1931-32 season, has placed two new comedies in work.

Total assets вЂ“ One Ford, Model 1911- One Tent, Model 1861 вЂ“ One Union Suit, two shirts and three socksвЂњ Hardy have cast off all financial worries вЂ“

Produced byВ Hal Roach, Directed byВ James W. Main Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr, James Finlayson, Billy Gilbert