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Laurel and Hardy Movies - DVDRips - 142 Movies
Type:
Video > Movies
Files:
163
Size:
26.42 GB

Spoken language(s):
English, Spanish
Quality:
+11 / -0 (+11)

Uploaded:
Feb 10, 2008
By:
Drowlord



Laurel And Hardy - Collection (1920's - 1940's) - USA, Comedy, English audio (a few titles in Spanish), No subtitles, 142 Movies and Shorts (Many are duplicates -- a Black & White version and a Color one)

This is a nearly complete collection of Laurel and Hardy movies from DVD rips.  (actually, DVD ISO's that I downloaded and then ripped)  They come from Hexen's torrents.  Included in this torrent is a folder filled with the original Hexen L&H Torrents.

Format: .AVI files
Video: 800 Kbps XviD
Audio: 96 Kbps MP3
Size: Movies vary widely by size, due to widely different film lengths, but range from 77 MB to 600 MB, with the majority of them around 130 MB.

Note: These movies are mostly from the 1920's - 1940's, and the file quality isn't perfect.  This is not a fault of my ripping process, but is due to the age of these movies, and the media on which it has been stored for over half a century.

Ripped using ImToo DVD Ripper Platinum 4.0.88 (http://www.imtoo.com/)
Ripped using the Combined-Community-Codec-Pack-2007-07-22 (http://cccp-project.net)

These come from a "complete collection" DVD set, but the set is actually missing a few movies.  This collection doesn't seem to gel very well with IMDB at all -- there are several movies in here that IMDB doesn't have, and several movies in IMDB that this collection doesn't have.

Also, I am missing "Hinter Schloss Und Rigel" from the DVD collection which was described as "Extracts from the German version of Pardon Us."  For some reason, I couldn't rip this.  I tried several times.

Starring:

Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy

Films included:

45 Minutes From Hollywood
Along Came Auntie
Angora Love
Another Fine Mess (Colorized)
Another Fine Mess
Any Old Port
A Chump At Oxford (Colorized)
A Chump At Oxford
Bacon Grabbers
Beau Hunks (colorized)
Beau Hunks
Below Zero (colorized)
Below Zero
Berth Marks (colorized)
Berth Marks
Be Big (colorized)
Be Big
Big Business
Block-Heads (colorized)
Block-Heads
Blotto (colorized)
Blotto
Brats (colorized)
Brats (original)
Brats
Busy Bodies (Colorized)
Busy Bodies
Call of the Cuckoo
Chickens Come Home (colorized)
Chickens Come Home
Come Clean
County Hospital (colorized)
County Hospital
Dirty Work (Colorized)
Dirty Work
Double Whoopie
Do Detectives Think
Duck Soup
Early to Bed
Fluttering Hearts
Flying Elephants
From Soup To Nuts
Going Bye Bye (colorized)
Going Bye Bye
Habeus Corpus
Helpmates (colorized)
Helpmates
Hog Wild (Colorized)
Hog Wild
Ladrones
Laughing Gravy (2-reel)
Laughing Gravy (3-reel)
Laughing Gravy (colorized)
La Vida Nocturna
Leave em Laughing
Les Carottiers (colorized)
Liberty
Los Calaveras
Love em and Weep
Men O War (colorized)
Men O War
Me and My Pal (colorized)
Me and My Pal
Night Owls (colorized)
Night Owls
Noche De Duendes
Oliver The Eigth (colorized)
Oliver The Eigth
One Good Turn (colorized)
One Good Turn
On The Loose
On the Wrong Trek
Our Relations (colorized)
Our Relations
Our Wife (colorized)
Our Wife
Pack Up Your Troubles (colorized)
Pack Up Your Troubles
Pardon Us (colorized)
Pardon Us
Perfect Day (colorized)
Perfect Day
Politiquerias
Prudence
Putting Pants on Philip
Sailors Beware
Saps At Sea (colorized)
Saps At Sea
Scram (colorized)
Scram
Should Married Men Go Home
Slipping Wives
Sons of the Desert (colorized)
Sons of the Desert
Sugar Daddies
Swiss Miss (colorized)
Swiss Miss
Thats My Wife
Their First Mistake (colorized)
Their First Mistake
Their Purple Moment
Them Thar Hills (colorized)
Them Thar Hills
They Go Boom
The Battle of the Century
The Bohemian Girl (colorized)
The Bohemian Girl
The Chimp (colorized)
The Chimp
The Finishing Touch
The Fixer-Uppers (colorized)
The Fixer-Uppers
The Hoose-Gow (colorized)
The Hoose Gow
The Laurel Hardy Murder Case (colorized)
The Laurel Hardy Murder Case
The Live Ghost
The Midnight Patrol (colorized)
The Midnight Patrol
The Music Box (Colorized)
The Music Box
The Second Hundred Years
Thicker Than Water (colorized)
Thicker Than Water
Thundering Fleas
Tiembla y Titubea
Tit For Tat (colorized)
Tit For Tat
Towed in a Hole (colorized)
Towed in a Hole
Twice Two (colorized)
Twice Two
Two Tars

Unaccustomed As We Are (colorized)
Unaccustomed As We Are
Way Out West (colorized)
Way Out West
We Faw Down
Why Girls Love Sailors
With Love and Hisses
Wrong Again
Youre Darn Tootin

Comments

Crap... It's "Hexen", not "Nexen". I feel like a dick. Wish I could edit the above. Man, I'm sorry.
great torrent Drowlord, Ill hope i can download it
all,thanx!
So whats happening to seeding, .2% in 8 hours!

joolz
Hmm... Good question, Joolzg. I'm not sure why the seeding is so slow. I have a lot of unused bandwidth for some reason. I should be uploading my torrents at around 150 KB/s, but I appear to be dishing out 10 KB/s on this one.

After shutting down and restarting uTorrent, it looks like I'm delivering about 60 KB/s, now. Still less than I'd like, but better, nonetheless. I'll see if I can tweak it further when I get home.

Also, it looks like I forgot to check "initial seeding", so I probably haven't been delivering unique packets with my anorexic bandwidth. Sorry about that.

Hopefully this torrent will accelerate considerably. Nonetheless, my experience with large torrents suggests that I won't get a full copy of this out to the swarm for at least a week, and possibly two. It is 26 GB+.
I've uploaded about 80% of this torrent, so far. There's just under 30% present in the swarm. Looks like almost half of what I'm sending out is making it to the swarm. So a little more than half of my bandwidth is going out to non-sharing or malicious peers. In my experience, this is slightly better than average. Thanks to everyone who is sharing back what they've downloaded!
Hmm... I've uploaded 1.35 times the torrent so far, but only 46.5% appears to be in the swarm. That means that the percentage of bad peers is increasing a bit.
I've uploaded about 1.79 times this torrent now, and it looks like about 68% of it has reached the swarm. Damn, this has been slow.
Hope I can down load it all! Im stuck on 69% and it has stopped?? Please stay on line Drowlord cheers Nick
Don't fear. I haven't let any of my torrents die, yet. (well, except the black books one that had a problem, and I created a "corrected" version to replace it). Since this is a really big torrent and a lot of people are getting pieces of it and only about a third of those people are sharing back to the swarm, it's going to be slow. My internet connection seems to provide poor performance for torrents.

(btw... anybody understand this? I can download almost 3 MB/s through ftp and http, but 600 KB/s totally saturates uTorrent. Likewise, I can upload at about 1.5 MB/s through some protocols, but uTorrent seems to choke and die around 200 KB/s)
Cheers Drowlord, I am down loading all the B&W films. When I am done I will help seed so far I am at 77% and downloading at an average of 45kbs It was 178 Kbs so about 1 day left. Then I will start on the colour!
Cheers back, NickFreeStone! Cool. I'll continue to seed this for a while -- at least until it has a dozen or so seeds. I've kept all of my torrents in utorrent, even when I've stopped seeding them, so that I can watch them and make sure that there are always a few seeds.

Crazy, though... I have a ton of stuff that I've ripped that I'm not sharing out, yet, because I can't provide a reasonable level of transfer speed on most of it. i.e. the Star Hunter TV series, the Star Hunter 2300 TV series, "Jack of All Trades" TV series (starring Bruce Campbell), Forever Knight TV series, and so on... Once I get one of these huge torrents with enough seeds (like Gilligan's Island), I throw up another torrent with another collection.
damn its slow! 85.9% done
Its Down! its Down!!!!! Seeding like a gooden. (Uploadlimit Max)! Thanks again Drowlord watching some tonight! Take care! Nick
I'm glad that the swarm finally has it! woot! Sorry it was so slow, nickfreestone1. Thanks, Swetorrents, I've uploaded them as individual files (not an iso or rar), so you can just grab the files that you want with most torrent clients. I'll drop the priority on this one down some, so that I can seed Star Hunter and Star Hunter 2300. :-)
Note To Noobs: Although most media players should work just fine, my favorite is VLC, which includes most popular codecs (http://www.videolan.org). For other media player (like windows media player), you just need the XviD codec, which is a popular open-source codec and is included in many codec packs.
Thanx for this
hope someone keeps it seeded as will take some time



great work by the uploader and great set of collectables
You're welcome. I don't seed all of my torrents all the time, but I keep every single one in a tab on uTorrent and make sure that they all have at least a few seeders -- if not, I start seeding again.

(except the one torrent where I made a mistake...)
Hooooooly shiiiit! You have ripped a lot of Movies in this PACK!!! 142!! :O!! Damn, thanks!!
Hey SkurrePurre2. Yeah, it's a big torrent. I decided that these movies were only really valuable as a collection, which is why I lumped them all together.
Thanks for this. I'm considering buying the collection and am using this download to get an idea of the quality, but...96 Kbps audio ....eewugh, that's pretty weak, dude. That kind of jinxes a lot of hard work you put into this rip. Even 128 wouldn't be the greatest, though it's as commonly used in AVI files as 192 (which is satisfactory) but there's a noticeable audio quality between the two.
This folder wouldn't have been much larger in size with 192 Kbps audio, either. One GB tops. A pity.
@Lemberg, Sorry that the audio compression is lower than you prefer. I find 96 kbps to be adequate for my purposes. From my perspective the quality was so low to begin with (pops and cracks and 1930's sound editing) that I might as well have dropped it down to 64kbps.

Ultimately, I made this torrent for the sole purpose of compressing this data, heavily. You have the option of collecting the Hexen DVD ISOs if quality is a primary concern for you. They're all available online, and I've tried to collect them in another of my torrents to make them easy for collectors who demand high quality.

Personally, I'm not an audiophile or videophile. If it's reasonably clear and sounds reasonably good on an Analog TV (no static, not too blocky), my desire to collect old TV shows and old movies is satisfied. I have 3.8 Terabytes of TV shows, movies, and music. A 10% increase in file size means a 10% decrease in the number of files I can store. In fact, anything that I download, which violates my space constraints is summarily recompressed. 400 MB for a 1-hour show, 200MB for a 30-minute show, and 800MB for a movie. Beyond the baseline quality that these constraints guarantee, my primary concern is with the efficient (quantitative) use of my storage resources.
Damn I just finally finished the download and tried playing one of them in VLC, I have got the file is broken repair thing..on all of them which means I have to repair them each time I watch them. Is there any way around that?
Amazing collection!
@pezbot

On the VLC tracking thing... My ripping software sometimes causes this problem. I'm not sure what's up with it, because other media players never complain. I've read up on it in the VLC fora, and the developers insist that it is, indeed, a problem with the AVI files, and not with VLC.

However, they mention things that "prove" it, like media players won't t know how long the file is, and that you can't move the slider. These don't appear to be symptoms that my files exhibit... VLC and other media players know how long it is, and you can skip throughout the movie with impunity.

I remain skeptical as to what the exact issue is, but I humbly apologize for this, anyway. You can turn off those prompts in VLC with this setting (this setting is only available in VLC 0.8.6 and later):

Settings
Preferences
Demuxers
AVI
Force index creation
Ask/Always fix/never fix

(pick the last option, and you won't be harrassed).
Can someone with the full set up this to usenet as it's very slow.
Mega Huge Thanx To You, Drowlord!!!
I`ve downloaded them all, and I have seen about 12, and 130 more to watch. I am sooooo hapy. It`s going to be a nice and long christmas for me and my kids. And i will like seed for ever. But don`t have more than 45 kb/s max upload. Sorry. AND 999 + 1 OF THANX TO YOU Drowlord. THANX.
Good stuff. Thanks very much!
I'm glad that some of you are able to enjoy this. Thanks for the thanks!
Please seed.
Awesome just awesome eventho not finished downloading yet many thanks for all your hard work
I am downloading at 10KB/s :(

Seed please!
this shit is so crazy!!!!! judging from the comments, it seems to be good. AMAZING FUCKIN JOB DROWLORD. does anyone know exactly which ones are in spanish? i would greatly appreciate it. thanks.
Great job. I am seeding this but is a bit slow. There is another upload which has 4 more movies to this one i.e. "Laurel and Hardy - The Collector\'s Edition (21 DVDs)" and the rest the same. This one has the exact quality but at lower size. For the Spanish ones you can make out from the title itself.
thankyou thankyou thankyooooouuuu
very thanks dude. great collection. good job keep it up
First off: THANK YOU BUDDY!
Secondly, To all of you downloading this treasure chest of films.... open up your bandwidth and let others enjoy this as well.
Universal law: What you give is what you will get back and sometimes in double!
Thanks...obrigado,
Spen007 in Brasil!
Many thanks for this Drowlord, I'm downloading at the moment. Looking forward to watching them all. Thanks again!