Unparalleled in their ability to adapt to the changing cinematic landscape, Laurel and Hardy's upwards trajectory was only bolstered by the arrival of sound. Their first sound short, appropriately titled Unaccustomed As We Are, begins to incorporate sync sound gags and was so well received by audiences that the duo would go on to win the Academy Award for The Music Box just a few years later, an impressively rare feat for the time. Restored shorts on the Laurel & Hardy: Year Three set include: Liberty, Wrong Again, That's My Wife, Big Business, Unaccustomed as We Are, Double Whoopee, Berth Marks (Silent Version), Bacon Grabbers, Angora Love. The 1929 shorts include many of Laurel and Hardy's best known films and, thanks to painstaking restoration efforts by Blackhawk Films, each short offers pristine picture and audio, backed by fascinating and contextual bonus features, including audio commentaries, alternate edits, and rare archival footage. What's more, the set includes both silent and sound versions of Unaccustomed As We Are and two bonus full sound shorts from 1929, They Go Boom! And The Hoose-Gow Each film features newly recorded scores from some of the best silent film composers working today, including Neil Brand, Andreas Benz, Robert Israel, and Maud Nelissen, three of the scores featuring a 5.1 audio mix.

• Genre: MOVIE
• MPAA Rating: NR
• Label: FLICKER ALLEY