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Stan and Ollie are on holiday in Paris where Ollie falls in love with the daughter of an innkeeper. On discovering she is already married, Ollie decides he and Stan must end it all by jumping into a river. They are talked out of suicide by a French Foreign Legion Officer who convinces them instead to enlist in order to forget. The boys wreak havoc at the training camp and are arrested for desertion, but make their escape in a stolen airplane. This crash lands, killing Ollie, but the pair are reunited when Ollie is reincarnated as a horse. Stan and Ollie were loaned out by Hal Roach to make this film for RKO and independent producer Boris Morros.
About the Actor
Laurel went on to join the Hal Roach studio, and began directing films, including a 1926 production called Yes, Yes, Nanette. It was his intention to work primarily as a writer and director, but fate stepped in. In 1927, Oliver Hardy, another member of the Hal Roach Studios Comedy All Star players, was injured in a kitchen mishap and Laurel was asked to return to the front of the cameras. Laurel and Hardy began sharing screen time together in Slipping Wives, Duck Soup and With Love and Hisses. It soon became obvious that the two men had a certain comic on screen chemistry. Roach Studios' supervising director Leo McCarey noticed the audience reaction to the two and had begun intentionally teaming them together, leading to the creation of the Laurel and Hardy series late that year. Together, the two men began producing a huge body of short movies, including The Battle of the Century, Should Married Men Go Home?, Two Tars, Be Big!, Big Business, and many others. Laurel and Hardy successfully made the transition to talking films with the short Unaccustomed As We Are in 1929. In the same year they appeared in their first feature in one of the revue sequences of The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and the following year they appeared as the comic relief in a lavish all-color (in Technicolor) musical feature entitled: The Rogue Song. In 1931, their own first starring feature, Pardon Us was released, although they continued to make both features and shorts until 1935, including their 1932 three-reeler The Music Box which won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
wow what a carry on. Since FLYING DEUCES is in the public domain and therefore available for any old tom, dick or harry to stick on a dvd and sell its a headache trying to find a decent print. Reading these customers comments are enough to drive you mad, especially since I suspect some of them are written by people REPRESENTING the companies churning out the poor copies in an attempt to sell more.
FACT ---- The only one worth buying is by the American studio KINO (red cover). It is remastered from a marvellous print and has some great extras. KINO are one of the finest dvd companies in the world, putting a lot of love and attention into their silent film dvds.
FACT ---- Despite Amazon stating KINOS dvds are REGION 1 and therefore only playable on US or MULTI-REGION dvd players they are in fact all region 0 discs, and therefore playable on ALL dvd players. I think AMAZON just have a blanket policy to state all USA produced dvds are region 1 to avoid any complaints if one doesnt play.
FACT --- Other companies releasing FLYING DEUCES include stonevision, elstree hill and they are abysmal..you will pull your hair out at the poor quality of the naff print they use.
SOOOOO, get yourself the big 21 disc Laurel and Hardy boxset here in the UK, the 2 twentieth century fox sets also here in the UK for work not in the big boxset (3 films each set), grab this Flying Deuces from the states AND finally (and you will need a multi-region player for these) the TCM LAUREL AND HARDY ARCHIVES and AIR RAID WARDENS/NOTHING BUT TROUBLE double bill dvd from the states to ensure you have just about everything.
Remember, look for KINO as the studio under the flying deuces dvd release info...only one worth buying
FACT ---- The only one worth buying is by the American studio KINO (red cover). It is remastered from a marvellous print and has some great extras. KINO are one of the finest dvd companies in the world, putting a lot of love and attention into their silent film dvds.
FACT ---- Despite Amazon stating KINOS dvds are REGION 1 and therefore only playable on US or MULTI-REGION dvd players they are in fact all region 0 discs, and therefore playable on ALL dvd players. I think AMAZON just have a blanket policy to state all USA produced dvds are region 1 to avoid any complaints if one doesnt play.
FACT --- Other companies releasing FLYING DEUCES include stonevision, elstree hill and they are abysmal..you will pull your hair out at the poor quality of the naff print they use.
SOOOOO, get yourself the big 21 disc Laurel and Hardy boxset here in the UK, the 2 twentieth century fox sets also here in the UK for work not in the big boxset (3 films each set), grab this Flying Deuces from the states AND finally (and you will need a multi-region player for these) the TCM LAUREL AND HARDY ARCHIVES and AIR RAID WARDENS/NOTHING BUT TROUBLE double bill dvd from the states to ensure you have just about everything.
Remember, look for KINO as the studio under the flying deuces dvd release info...only one worth buying
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Actually, this is a very good film and one I'm glad to have in my collection but I don't believe it is Laurel and Hardy at their best. The story is set in France and involves the duo entering the Foreign Legion. I personally think that Laurel and Hardy work best on home ground so the French setting isn't an ideal one. I also think that their funniest films are the ones where they dominate and the plot is secondary; in "Flying Deuces" the reverse is the case with a slighly over-involved plot and not enough of the central protagonists for my liking. That said, it is a funny film with some classic moments
My biggest criticism of the DVD is that the picture quality is very poor - nothing like the quality that one would hope for. The extras are minimal: a rather strange introduction from Tony Curtis which lasts about 5 minutes and appears to be ad-libbed. The intro is actually about Laurel and Hardy in general rather than about the film. The other extra is a 2 minute trailer for a Laurel and Hardy compilation.
If you're a fan (as I am) you will have to have this in your collection. If you're a new-comer, you will probably be better off with "Sons of the Desert" or "Way out West".
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Never mind the price - this is an appalling print of this film whichnearly managed to wreck my enjoyment. The picture is fuzzy, there areannoying jumps where a few seconds have been lost, blotches and scrathes.It's alomst unbeliveable that this company had the cheek to release itlike this!
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KINO THE ONLY VERSION TO BUY!!
As a lot of the reviewers on here have already expressed,this IS the best version of this gem to get!!Will play on R2 players even though listed as R1. Read more
Published 11 days ago by S. J. Melling
Seek out MK2's French release or Kino's Region 1 for the best quality
Laurel and Hardy's careers didn`t just hit rough waters when they left producer Hal Roach for better paying jobs with studios that hadn't a clue what to do with them like MGM and... Read more
Published 24 days ago by Trevor Willsmer
flying deuces kino us import.
i bought this version on the strength of a couple of reviews. and im glad i did. this kino version plays fine on uk dvd players. the extas alone are worth buying it for. Read more
Published 6 months ago by markd
For a collector
This item was bought for a relative who is a fan and is building a collection, I have not viewed the dvd but I can say that it arrived on time and in good condition.
Published 16 months ago by squirrel
Flying deuces the version worth getting
Having previously bought the Elstree Hill version of Flying Deuces which I agree with other reviews is dire picture quality I took a risk having read the review on the Kino version... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Rob Sanderson
Restored at last - Kino Video release
**This review is regarding the KINO release only**
The KINO release is a restored version of the film taken from Nitrate negatives found recently in France, and the... Read more
The KINO release is a restored version of the film taken from Nitrate negatives found recently in France, and the... Read more
Published on 24 May 2007 by Stephen Macdonald
Laurel & Hardy - Flying Deuces DVD (Stonevision
A word of warning to people wanting to buy the Laurel & Hardy Flying Deuces DVD. The Stonevision DVD IS the remastered version. Read more
Published on 29 April 2007 by A. Fan
An extremely funny movie!
This is one of the funniest L&H films I've ever seen. There's a hilarious scene, where Stan plays the harp on a drying-rack. Well worth watching. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2004 by Patrik Lemberg
Well this is in another fine mess you've gotten me into
It's Stan and Ollie at their best. These two gentlemen may be long dead, and their films may be 64 years old, but some things never die. Read more
Published on 24 Dec 2003 by "danielharker"
Foreign Legion comedy is a typical Laurel & Hardy outing.
Mr. Hardy, disappointed in romance, joins the French Foreign Legion, and takes Mr. Laurel with him! A reworking of an older, similar comedy (BEAU HUNKS), this has more action and a... Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2000
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