Hal Roach Movies

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for movies from the early 1920s onwards.

Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him.

Two factions struggle to gain and keep possession of a pool of molten gold.

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.

Two debt collectors try to repossess a console radio.

A love-smitten cowpoke accidentally causes a horse stampede.

Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in...

Two sailors on shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a huge traffic jam with dozens of ill-tempered...

It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator. Oliver sees his old...

As the Earth wrestles with its agonizing birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they...

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little...

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.

Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident...

Finlayson plays an intrepid army cameraman on the battlefield in the world war, and Rowe plays his hapless assistant. Cranking away in no man's land,...

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of...

On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car

Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a...