Flying Deuces DVD

Stan and Ollie are on holiday in Paris where Ollie falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter Georgette. When she rejects Ollie's advances Ollie decides he and Stan must end it all by jumping into the River Seine. They are talked out of it by a passing French Foreign Legion officer (who unbeknown to the boys is actually Georgette's husband) and persuaded to enlist into the Legion in order to forget. The harsh region coupled with the fact they get lumbered with most of the rotten jobs enables Ollie to forget Georgette quicker than he anticipated so the boys decide... they should leave the Legion and head back home to Des Moines. This leads to them being charged with desertion and sentenced to death but fate and a hidden tunnel are on hand to save the day. Well almost! The first Laurel & Hardy feature film produced away from the Hal Roach studios the boys were loaned to RKO and directior A Edward Sutherland for this outing. Sutherland and Stan Laurel reportedly clashed but there are many instances where they obviously worked well together - the marching on parade and Stan playing the bed strings are vintage Laurel & Hardy. [show more]

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