The battle of the century.

X: PP: Positive Picture AC: Acetate B: 800' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Black & White Silent 400 Clyde Bruckman Director: Clyde Bruckman Hal Roach Studios Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Credits

Cast
Laurel [Canvasback Clump] and Hardy. [Dick Gilbert (sewer worker); George K. French (dentist); Dick Sutherland (dental patient); Sam Lufkin (boxing referee); Noah Young (Thunderclap Callahan); Gene Morgan (ring announcer); Al Hallet (bit); Anita Garvin (woman who slips on pie); Eugene Pallette (insurance agent); Lyle Tayo (woman at window); Charlie Hall (delivery man); Dorothy Coburn (pie victim boarding auto); Ham Kinsey, Bert Roach, Jack Hill (ringside spectators); Bob O'Conor, Ed Brandenberg, Dorothy Walbert (warring pedestrians); Charley Young (fruit vendor); Ellinor Van Der Veer (dignified dowager with lorgnette)]; Hal Roach; Bruckman, Clyde, 1894-1955. direction; Laurel (stan); Hardy, Oliver, 1892-1957. cast; Laurel and Hardy
Complete catalog record
Alternate title: Battle of the century (Motion picture : 1927)
Original source: Silent short. | Photographed by George Stevens; edited by Richard Currier. | Credits supplied from: Laurel & Hardy, 1975. | Released Dec. 31, 1927, according to: Laurel & Hardy, 1975.
Release: [1927], c1928.
Subjects: Boxing -- Drama
Program notes: PROGRAM NOTES: Shown at the 19th Annual Festival of Preservation on February 17, 2019 as part of the program Laurel and Hardy: Fugues of Destruction. | PRESERVATION HISTORY: Restored at the UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with Jeff Joseph/SabuCat. Preservation funded by Jeff Joseph/SabuCat and UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preserved from one reel of a 35mm nitrate print, one reel of a 35mm acetate dupe negative and a 16mm acetate print. Laboratory services by the Stanford Theatre Film Laboratory, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, Cineaste Restoration/Thad Komorrowski, Point 360/Joe Alloy. Special thanks to: Jon Mirsalis, Paramount Pictures Archives, Richard W. Bann, Ray Faiola, David Gerstein.
Ucla location: Non-circulating Nitrate Vaults research copy | M39545

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