Flying Deuces

UPC: 777966848198

Studio: St. Clair Entertainment

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Child Classic]

Summary: 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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: Dolby Digital sound
Carefully re-mastered for best possible picture quality

Flying Deuces

Format: DVD

Release Date: 03/16/2004

Audio: DD Dolby Digital

Runtime: 65 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Region: Universal Compatability

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Hardy Is in Love [17:02]
2. Man-Eating Shark [17:15]
3. Leaving the Army [9:55]
4. To Jail [7:09]
5. Escape From Jail [8:23]
6. In the Airplane [7:56]

Cast and Crew: Bonnie Bannon  Actor 
Mary Jane Carey  Actor 
Rychard Cramer  Actor 
Billy Engle  Actor 
Michael Visaroff  Actor 
Eddie Borden  Actor 
Kit Guard  Actor 
Frank Clark  Actor 
Jack Chefe  Actor 
Sam Lufkin  Actor 
Monica Bannister  Actor 
Crane Whitley  Actor 
Harry Langdon  Screenwriter 
Boris Morros  Producer 
Charles Rogers  Screenwriter 
Ralph Spence  Screenwriter 
Edward Sutherland  Director 
John Leipold  Composer (Music Score) 
Leo Shuken  Composer (Music Score) 
Alfred Schiller  Screenwriter 
Stan Laurel  Actor 
Oliver Hardy  Actor 
Jean Parker  Actor 
Reginald Gardiner  Actor 
Charles B. Middleton  Actor 
Jean del Val  Actor 
Clem Wilenchick  Actor 
James Finlayson  Actor 

Country: USA