The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy (1999)

Director
John R. Cherry III; Larry Harmon

Main cast
Bronson Pinchot; Gailard Sartain; F. Murray Abraham; Philip Godawa; Susan Danford

Genres
Family, Comedy

Description
Bronson Pinchot does a nice job imitating Stan Laurel and Gailard Sartain gives a good appearance as Oliver Hardy, but the imitation does not extend to the original duo's comedy. The silly story line finds the two trying to protect a professor's daughter from a mummy that has been re-born


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