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Welcome to ANOTHER NICE MESS. This website aims to cover review of films made by the Hal Roach Studios between 1914-1948;
as well as the individual films featuring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase and the post-Roach Our Gang short films.

This is not a fan-made, kiss-ass website.
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ON THIS DAY: MARCH 18
LATEST UPDATED/REVIEWED FILMS LATEST UPDATED/ADDED ACTORS
UPDATED RECENTLY
This website is updated on a daily basis. Pressing CTRL+F5 [hard refresh] will give you the most recent update on any page.
MARCH 18
-Image and additional information added for Barbara Booth. [Jarvis]
-New film credit added for Edgar Kennedy (54).
-New film credit and info added for Louis Hickus. [Jesse]
-Big thanks to Rainald Schmidt for an extremely helpful donation today! I'm sorry Rainald, I do not have a contact e-mail address for you to thank you personally, so if you are reading this please know how much this has really helped me this week. Thank you.
MARCH 15
-1 film credit swapped: Charles Stevenson (151) replaces Eddie Baker (84) as the "boss" in Hired And Fired (1926). This elevates Stevenson up to number 9 in Top 300 and moves Baker down to number 32. Also, significantly this now makes this discovery to be Charles Stevenson's final Roach appearance. [Jesse]
MARCH 14
-Added Doris Bottini to the site.
-New film credits added for Pete Troncale (4), Billy Diamond (2), Verna Dillon (2), Rae-Nell Laskey (2), Leon Highby (2). [thanks to Bob Peterson & Drina Mohacsi]
-1 film credit removed for Elaine Merk (1).
MARCH 13
-Thanks to Randy Skretvedt for another very generous donation. Talking of which, I have now updated the "Donate" button to include different options to make things a bit easier.
-Thanks to John Benson for his, shall we say rather unique donation today!
MARCH 12
-The 8 dancers in Our Gang's Reunion In Rhythm have been identified between Bob Peterson and Drina Mohacsi, who have forwarded the information on to me. I have now added their respective cast shots.
-Tons, and I do mean tons of e-mails for me to sort through with updates, IDs, corrections and suggestions for the site. I promise to clear everything when I am able. Thanks for your patience.
-I have been working on the site every day but these are basic updates, improvements and additions that I don't really need to announce here. But what I will announce is my gratitude to Jesse for his continued efforts in bringing to my attention a few screenshots that needed to be reinstated, and to Tommie Hicks for his helpful e-mail today. Last but certainly not least, thanks to Roland Steinert for his very generous donation today. *Sorry Roland, I do not have any contact details for you so I am unable to write to you directly to thank you*. And whilst I'm on that subject I will take this opportunity to extend my thanks to EVERYBODY who has donated to the site since its removal last month. This money has really helped me and my family with me being able to afford medicine for my sick daughter and some other essentials I wouldn't otherwise been able to get. Thank you for supporting the work I do here.
MARCH 7
-Added 2 new stills for On The Loose. [Peter Mikkelsen]
-Added some trivia notes for Thundering Tenors. [Doug Di Franco]
-Added Bobbie Taylor to the site. [Bob Peterson]
MARCH 6
-New film credit added for Ray Hallor (2) [Jesse].
-Thanks to Robert Borgen for his very kind donation today. As always, this really helps.
MARCH 5
-Several images (with file names beginning with a,b and c) are missing from the site which I need to manually reinstall. Also, experimenting with relocating autographs underneath the actor's profile image with a border. Example is birthday-boy John Aasen.
MARCH 4
-Several new names added to the donations page following their first-time contributions in the past month. Also, I now have 5 supporters with recurring monthly donations signed up the site. This has helped a lot. Not going to give out names or numbers here but there has been a significant amount of financial help sent to me to bring this site back in the last month. Thank you to each and every one of you. It's made a big difference. You may notice some images missing from the site for the time being. Fear not, these will be restored in due course. Also, to those who have continued to send me images, posters and corrections - I will get to those as soon as I can. I have updated the ON THIS DAY section for today.
FEBRUARY 3
-Updated the page for Virginia Karns to alter her real name. [Jim Kerkoff]
JANUARY 19
-Added new page to the site for Babe Hardy's solo film, Cupid's Target (1915).
-Added new page to the site for Babe Hardy's solo film, Gus And The Anarchists (1915).
-Added new page to the site for Babe Hardy's solo film, Dames And Dentists (1920).
JANUARY 16
-Added new page to the site for Babe Hardy's solo film, Spaghetti And Lottery (1915).
JANUARY 15
-New film credit added for Laura June Williams (4).
-Fixed page and added this still for Babe Hardy's His Day Out.
-Added Slim Cole to the site.
JANUARY 14
-Added new page to the site for Babe Hardy's solo film, Chickens (1916).
-Added 2 non-Roach film credits for Helen Gilmore.
JANUARY 13
-Added Arline Judge and Marion Martin to the site.
-New film credits added for Eddie Hall (9), J. Farrell MacDonald (6), Pat Flaherty (4), Frank Hagney (4).
-Correctly formatted the film page for The McGuerins From Brooklyn (1942) and added several cast screenshots.
-Thanks to Eric Schultz for his very kind donation.
-Thanks to [Name redacted] for his first donation to the site.
JANUARY 9
-Added new page to the site for Babe Hardy's solo film, Casey's Birthday (1914).
JANUARY 1
-Added Sig Arno to the site.
-First donation of 2024 comes from Scott Margolin.
-The STILL TO DO list.

Reviews, screenshots, programming: Dave Lord Heath
Research detectives: Jesse Brisson, Jim Jarvis
Web hosting: Chris Bungo

Acknowledgement is herby given to all those whose work came before me in making their findings available.
Specifically Rob Stone, Randy Skretvedt, Richard W. Bann, Robert Demoss.
Other useful and significant works by Brian Anthony, Leonard Maltin, Norbert Aping and many others are also credited herein.
Special thanks to Gene Sorkin and Max Lanzisera for their essential help in getting this website off the ground.
When works previously published are used to compile the data on this site I have given credit where known.
I do not credit the website IMDb as a source as they have stolen and published my work without any credit or care.


CONTACT ME @ lordheath1972@yahoo.co.uk - or use the site's Forum.