Laurel and Hardy in "The Flying Deuces" (1939) - feat. Reginald Gardiner
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During their sojourn in Paris,
During their sojourn in Paris, Ollie (Oliver Hardy) and Stan (Stan Laurel), temporarily distanced from their usual fish market work in Des Moines, Iowa, find themselves entangled in a romantic imbroglio. Ollie becomes enamored with Georgette (Jean Parker), daughter of an innkeeper, yet remains oblivious to her matrimonial ties to Foreign Legion officer Francois (Reginald Gardiner). Rejected by Georgette due to her existing marital commitment, Ollie experiences despondency, contemplating drastic measures until he is dissuaded by Stan's musings on reincarnation. Following Francois' suggestion, the duo enlists in the Foreign Legion, purportedly to alleviate Ollie's romantic woes.
Their legionnaire duties entail menial labor, met with resistance owing to their aversion to the meager wages offered. Subsequently sentenced to rigorous tasks, Ollie gradually relinquishes his romantic affliction amid the toil. Eventually, disillusioned by their laborious predicament, they incite chaos, inadvertently setting the laundry ablaze before expressing their disdain through a defiant letter.
Encounters with Georgette reignite Ollie's hopes, leading to a misunderstanding culminating in his arrest upon Francois' revelation of Georgette's marital status. Sentenced to death for desertion, Ollie and Stan find themselves incarcerated, their fate seemingly sealed until a fortuitous escape opportunity emerges. Inadvertent actions by Stan, however, divert their path to Francois' abode, igniting a pursuit culminating in an airborne escapade that concludes with Stan encountering a talking horse, purportedly embodying Ollie's reincarnated spirit.
A 1939 American Black & White buddy comedy film (a/k/a "Flying Aces") directed by A. Edward Sutherland, produced by Boris Morros, written by Ralph Spence & Charley Rogers and Fred Schiller & Harry Langdon, cinematography by Art Lloyd, starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Charles Middleto, Jean Del Val, Clem Wilenchick, and James Finlayson.
Michael Visaroff appears uncredited as Georgette's father.
Harpo Marx dubbed Stan's playing in this film.
On the set of this film, Oliver Hardy met his future wife, script supervisor Virginia Lucille Jones.
Jean Parker, who played Oliver Hardy's love interest in this picture, played his daughter in "Zenobia" (1939) the same year.
The "laundry scene" was filmed on the Iverson Movie Ranch in the Chatsworth section of Los Angeles, California, considered to be the most often used outdoor shooting location for films and television shows. In the scene, the characters played by Laurel and Hardy, having disrupted training camp soon after joining the Foreign Legion, are forced to do a massive amount of laundry—seemingly the laundry for the entire Foreign Legion. For the shoot, a facsimile of a huge pile of laundry was built on top of one of the giant sandstone boulders of Iverson's Garden of the Gods, which is now a park. Aerial footage of the scene, including a large spread consisting of laundry hanging on lines, was shot for the movie, and was used briefly in the final flying scene as the set-up for a gag where the pair's cockpit is pelted with laundry. The footage later turned up in a number of other productions, including the Republic serials "Manhunt of Mystery Island" (1945) and "Radar Patrol vs. Spy King" (1949), along with the Allied Artists movie "The Cyclops" (1957).
The plane that does all the fancy flying at the end of this movie is a 1928 Travel Air 6000, better known to some as a Curtis-Wright 6-B (Curtis-Wright acquired the Travel Air company in 1931). It is an American plane, despite being painted in this movie with French roundels on the wings.
The sketch of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the first scene was drawn by Harry Langdon.
A partial remake of Laurel and Hardy's four-reel comedy short film "Beau Hunks" (1931), also with Charles B. Middleton in the role of the hostile Legion Commandant. As they did not have an exclusive contract with Hal Roach, Laurel and Hardy were able to appear in films for other studios. RKO Radio Pictures released this, made by independent producer Boris Morros. Director A. Edward Sutherland and Stan Laurel didn't get along during filming, with Sutherland having reportedly commented that he "would rather eat a tarantula than work with Laurel again".
This is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's only non-Hal Roach-produced film in which Stan (who never worked alone after being initially teamed with Hardy in the late 1920s) had a hand in the writing and editing (as he had in the Roach films).
Soundtrack music:
"Shine On, Harvest Moon" (1908) - Music by Nora Bayes, Lyrics by Jack Norworth, Sung by Oliver Hardy
"Ku-Ku" (1930) - Music by Marvin Hatley
"The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (1919) - Music by Ernest Seitz, Played by Stan Laurel
"Georgette Waltz" - Music by John Leipold and Milton Delugg
A Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy vehicle filled with tons of sight gags. Hilarity ensues.
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