The Flying Deuces

The Flying Deuces

 Cast: Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
, Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
, Jean Parker
Jean Parker
, Reginald Gardiner
Reginald Gardiner
, Charles Middleton
Charles Middleton
The Flying Deuces

The Flying Deuces

 Cast: Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
, Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
, Jean Parker
Jean Parker
, Reginald Gardiner
Reginald Gardiner
, Charles Middleton
Charles Middleton

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Overview

In their first starring feature away from the Hal Roach studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play a couple of fish peddlers from Des Moines on a Cook's Tour of Paris. While stopping over at quaint suburban inn, Ollie falls in love with innkeeper's daughter Georgette (Jean Parker). At Stan's prodding, Ollie pops the question to Georgette, who gently refuses because there is Someone Else. Disconsolately, Ollie decides to commit suicide by jumping into the Seine, insisting that Stan join him in his plunge to oblivion. The boys are halted from this drastic action by the timely arrival of Francois (Reginald Gardiner), an officer in the French Foreign Legion. Francois convinces Stan and Ollie that they'll forget all about Ollie's lost love if they join the Legion, and within a few days our heroes are in uniform at an outpost in French Morocco, where they are promptly assigned to laundry detail. Alas, try as he might, Ollie can't forget his beloved Georgette-until Stan suggests that he pretend to forget so that they can get back in their own clothes and head home. This Ollie does, but not before accidentally setting fire to a mountain of laundry. After leaving behind a rather nasty letter of resignation for their scowling commandant (Charles Middleton), Stan and Ollie pack their bags and head for the airport-where Ollie is reunited with Georgette, who turns out to be the wife of their commanding officer Francois! Sentenced to death for desertion, the boys tunnel their way out of their jail cell and hide out in an airplane, which Stan accidentally sends into flight. After a wild and noisy ride, the plane crashes, leading to the flm's hilarious-and somehow touching--"freak" ending. Officially a remake of Les Aviateurs, a French vehicle for Fernandel and Toto, The Flying Deuces also owes a lot to the earlier Laurel & Hardy Foreign Legion farce Beau Hunks. Highlights include Stan and Ollie's impromptu soft-shoe rendition of "Shine on Harvest Moon," and Stan's lunatic excursion into Harpo Marx territory as he plays a bed-spring "harp." Produced by Boris Morros and released by RKO Radio, Flying Deuces is unquestionably the best of Laurel & Hardy's non-Hal Roach vehicles.

Product Details

Release Date: 05/19/2015
UPC: 0089859902628
Original Release: 1939
Rating: NR
Source: MUSIC VIDEO DIST.***
Region Code: A
Presentation: [B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language: English
Time: 1:09:00
Sales rank: 31,806

Special Features

This is Your Life: Laurel and Hardy; (rare TV episode remastered from 35mm); Sons of the desert (a rare trailer); The paper hanger's helper (1925 silent short featuring Oliver Hardy); Lucky dog (1921 silent short starring Laurel & Hardy)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Stan Laurel Stan
Oliver Hardy Ollie
Jean Parker Georgette
Reginald Gardiner Francois
Charles Middleton Commandant,komendant,Commandant
Jean Del Val Sergeant
Crane Whitley Corporal
James Finlayson Jailer
Dick Cramer Truck Driver,Laundry Truck Driver
Michael Visaroff Innkeeper
Monica Bannister Georgette's Girl Friend
Bonnie Bannon Georgette's Girl Friend
Mary Jane Carey Georgette's Girl Friend
Christine Cabanne Georgette's Girl Friend
Frank Clark Pilot
Eddie Borden Legionnaires Knocked Out by Cork
Sam Lufkin Legionnaires Knocked Out by Cork
Kit Guard Other Legionnaire
Billy Engle Other Legionnaire
Jack Chefe Other Legionnaire
Dorys del Valle sierzant
Clem Wilenchick kapral
Arthur Housman Drunk Legionnaire
Arthur Berkeley Legionnaire
Phil Bloom Legionnaire
Bhogwan Singh Arab
John Leipold Composer
Leo Shuken Composer

Technical Credits
A. Edward Sutherland Director,Director
Howard Anderson Special Effects,Special Effects
Boris Morros Producer
Harry Langdon Screenwriter
Alfred Schiller Screenwriter
Ralph Spence Screenwriter
Charles Rogers Screenwriter
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