Laurel &Hardy & Trains

Laurel &Hardy & Trains

Today's Laurel & Hardy offering is the full length  (56 minutes) 1950 film Utopia.  This is another Laurel & Hardy I had never seen before. There's a religious cable channel (321 on Direct TV) that offers these films once or twice a week.  Thirty-four minutes of commercial advertising (pitching bibles, etc,) drove my crazy, but I snipped 'em all.  By the way, this film is in the public domain so you can show it at home and charge admission. The second video I added is from the "I Love Toy Trains" series that runs on the RFD cable channel.  On this one actor Mandy Patinktin shows what kind of toy train set one can build if one is filthy rich.  Actually, this 30 minute offering is as much about childhood memories as it is about trains.  At one point Mandy remembers when a lamp broke on his Lionel engine, and damned if I didn't have the same one.  Since he grew up in Chicago, as did I, many of his memories are also mine.