Laurel & Hardy - Surviving Footage From "The Rogue Song"

All film enthusiasts and Laurel & Hardy fans alike know of the Boys only actual color film, a 1930 Oscar-winning love story entitled "The Rogue Song". To add comic relief to the serious tone of the film, Laurel & Hardy were added to the cast at the last minute. Unfortunately, Nitrate film was the standard back in those days and as everyone knows if it wasn't preserved to a higher quality stock of film, the negative would have turned to dust. This is the case with "The Rogue Song", although over the past 30 years various footage has been discovered through many different prints of the film. The snippet here is the most intact scene, featuring Stan and Ollie going into a cave to sleep.

They had a decent amount of screen time, and only 6 minutes of footage remains. Check your attics!

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[horarwgt]

Shot in 2-strip Technicolor in 1929 and released the following year, MGM's "The Rogue Song" was considered a totally lost feature for years. MGM's print was destroyed in a fire and Technicolor threw away their check print. This three-minute clip was discovered in 1982 and remains all that is left of the film. Oddly, the entire soundtrack survives -- just the movie itself is lost. L&H's only other color appearance was in 1943's "Tree In A Test Tube."

[1stDewboy]

back then, the sound track was seperate from the film. it was recorded on very large records that were played in sync with the movie as it was screened. thus the audio was able to remain around altho the film part was lost. BTW, is that audio of the movie available somewhere? at least us fans could hear it !!!!

[gusisgr]

This movie looks great! Would be great if it was found! Search your attics people!

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[Coolestmovies]

Just noticed this clip is included on the LAUREL AND HARDY COLLECTION 2-disc DVD collection (the one with BONNIE SCOTLAND and THE DEVIL'S BROTHER). Presumably that's where this version was lifted from.

[UncleRonski]

thanks for posting it