

They were very funny, but also very influential - something I’ve only really come to realise in the last few years.

Buy The Trail of the Lonesome Pine movie posters from Movie Poster Shop. Today you wouldn’t think these black and white films made in 1920’s Hollywood, in the era of The Great Depression, would connect with a 4 year old boy in England. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine posters for sale online. Since 1964 the play adaptation has been performed at an outdoor theatre in the hometown of the original novels author - Big Sone Gap, Virginia. The picture was directed by Henry Hathaway starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, and Henry Fonda. I grew up with Laurel and Hardy, not literally, but back in the late 1970’s BBC2 played their films to entertain kids while BBC 1 switched from children’s TV to boring adult programs like the six o’clock news. 1.7 million 1 2 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American adventure romance western film based on the novel of the same name. That was the phrase often uttered by Oliver Hardy after his partner, Stan Laurel has made a problem a little bit harder than it was a few moments before.

We had a lot of material in the can we knew wasn’t going to make it into the final documentary and now seemed like a perfect time to put it to good use. Despite the forced hiatus, many like us felt the need to entertain others and take their minds off things. One of those films was ‘On The Trail of Stan and Ollie’, a Laurel and Hardy themed co-production with Ross Owen. Maybe it was all the references one character makes to Laurel and Hardys classic 1937 film comedy Way Out West, or the fact that they actually break into a. When Covid descended and we all retreated in to lockdown, like most film makers we realised our documentary projects were going to have to be put on hold.
