"Flying Deuces" Was made outside of the Hal roach Studios, however it is one of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's best feature comedies.
Ollie has fallen in love with the Innkeeper's daughter Georgette (Jean Parker) who gleefully plays him along. Ollie wants to propose to her but unbeknownst to him is the fact that she's already married to Francois (the French Franc) an officer in the French Foreign Legion. (There is a funny sequence in the boys room where Stan keeps bumping into the wall.) Ollie decides to end it all and he and Stan go to the edge of the River Seine to do themselves in. Francois happens by and convinces the boys to join the Foreign Legion...which they do.
When they arrive at camp, they quickly discover that Francois is an officer there. The Commandant (Charles "Ming the Merciless" Middleton) assigns them to laundry duty. The boys are faced with a mountain of laundry which they try to do. But Ollie becomes fed up and he and Stan decide to leave the Legion. As they are leaving they pause to do one of their little song and dance numbers (to "Shine on Harvest Moon").
While fleeing the troops, they happen upon Georgette who has just flown in to meet her husband. Ollie is overjoyed but his joy is short lived when Francois arrives and tells Ollie that Georgette is his wife. The boys are then arrested and thrown into jail under the watchful eye of long time L & H foil Jimmy Finlayson. A court martial sentences the boys to be shot at dawn the next day.
In a tip of the hat to Harpo Marx, Stan plays his bed spring as a harp just before a mysterious note informs the boys of an escape route. We never do find out who threw the note into their cell. Anyway, the boys manage to crawl through a tunnel but come up in the Inn in which Georgette is staying. Needless to say, Ollie is again caught in a compromising situation with Georgette as Francois enters the room.
Escaping from Francois, the boys, still on the run, wind up hiding in an airplane. Well you gotta know that somehow they'll wind up flying the thing. Stan accidently starts up the plane and fly it all over the area just missing buildings and such. How do they get our of this mess? They don't. They crash and.............................................................
Laurel and Hardy were now in their late forties and beginning to show their ages. They would make one more film the following year for Hal Roach and then move on to sub-par films for Fox and MGM culminating in theier denouement in "Utopia" (1950).
Ollie has fallen in love with the Innkeeper's daughter Georgette (Jean Parker) who gleefully plays him along. Ollie wants to propose to her but unbeknownst to him is the fact that she's already married to Francois (the French Franc) an officer in the French Foreign Legion. (There is a funny sequence in the boys room where Stan keeps bumping into the wall.) Ollie decides to end it all and he and Stan go to the edge of the River Seine to do themselves in. Francois happens by and convinces the boys to join the Foreign Legion...which they do.
When they arrive at camp, they quickly discover that Francois is an officer there. The Commandant (Charles "Ming the Merciless" Middleton) assigns them to laundry duty. The boys are faced with a mountain of laundry which they try to do. But Ollie becomes fed up and he and Stan decide to leave the Legion. As they are leaving they pause to do one of their little song and dance numbers (to "Shine on Harvest Moon").
While fleeing the troops, they happen upon Georgette who has just flown in to meet her husband. Ollie is overjoyed but his joy is short lived when Francois arrives and tells Ollie that Georgette is his wife. The boys are then arrested and thrown into jail under the watchful eye of long time L & H foil Jimmy Finlayson. A court martial sentences the boys to be shot at dawn the next day.
In a tip of the hat to Harpo Marx, Stan plays his bed spring as a harp just before a mysterious note informs the boys of an escape route. We never do find out who threw the note into their cell. Anyway, the boys manage to crawl through a tunnel but come up in the Inn in which Georgette is staying. Needless to say, Ollie is again caught in a compromising situation with Georgette as Francois enters the room.
Escaping from Francois, the boys, still on the run, wind up hiding in an airplane. Well you gotta know that somehow they'll wind up flying the thing. Stan accidently starts up the plane and fly it all over the area just missing buildings and such. How do they get our of this mess? They don't. They crash and.............................................................
Laurel and Hardy were now in their late forties and beginning to show their ages. They would make one more film the following year for Hal Roach and then move on to sub-par films for Fox and MGM culminating in theier denouement in "Utopia" (1950).