The Battle Of The Century (1927) *****

The first reel features Stan as a boxing champ. The beginning of the second reel is missing, but the second half is legendary. It's a pie-throwing farce to end all pie-throwing farces. Excerpted in "The Golden Age Of Comedy" (1957), it's one of Laurel and Hardy's finest films, directed by Clyde Bruckman and supervised by Leo McCarey.