W.C. Fields, at right, plays a bumbling inebriant who inadvertently becomes a bank security officer in the comedy The Bank Dick, part of a summer film series feturing Fields and Laurel & Hardy at the ...

The temptation for headline writers everywhere, one can imagine, will be to describe the flawed but embraceable Laurel and Hardy biopic "Stan & Ollie" as "another fine mess." That one's just too easy.

I have to imagine it was at least a little bit uncomfortable for John C. Reilly the first day on the set of Stan & Ollie—and I'm not referring to the prosthetic belly and jowls he wears through much ...

IN this engaging 1933 adaptation of Auber’s 1830 operetta, “Fra Diavolo,” Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play Stanlio and Ollio, down-on-their-luck travelers in 18th century Italy who decide to become ...