The Flying Deuces [1939]

Director:	A. Edward Sutherland
Writer:	Charley Rogers Fred Schiller Harry Langdon Ralph Spence
Composer:	John Leipold Leo Shuken

IMDB Rating:	6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes Rating:	83%
Amazon Rating:	4.0/5 stars
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Collection:	50 Movie Pack Family Classics Collection
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Synopsis: Ollie falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter but it turns out she's unavailable and he quickly becomes so as well.

Reaction: Some of the comedy is a bit slow but it's not terrible.

Personal Rating: 5/10

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A. Edward Sutherland	=>	Director
Charley Rogers	=>	Writer
Fred Schiller	=>	Writer
Harry Langdon	=>	Writer
Ralph Spence	=>	Writer
John Leipold	=>	Composer
Leo Shuken	=>	Composer
Bonnie Bannon	=>	Georgette's Girl Friend ^(uncredited)
Charles Middleton	=>	Commandant
Christine Cabanne	=>	Georgette's Girl Friend ^(uncredited)
Crane Whitley	=>	Corporal (as Clem Wilenchick)
Eddie Borden	=>	Legionnaire ^(uncredited)
Frank Clarke	=>	Pilot ^(uncredited)
James Finlayson	=>	Jailor
Jean Del Val	=>	Sergeant
Jean Parker	=>	Georgette
Mary Jane Carey	=>	Georgette's Girl Friend ^(uncredited)
Michael Visaroff	=>	Innkeeper ^(uncredited)
Monica Bannister	=>	Georgette's Girl Friend ^(uncredited)
Oliver Hardy	=>	Ollie

Reginald Gardiner	=>	Francois
Richard Cramer	=>	Laundry Truck Driver ^(uncredited)
Stan Laurel	=>	Stan

Random Trivia For This Title:

The sketch of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the first scene was drawn by Harry Langdon.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are thrown into a cell to await execution at sunrise. Stan discovers that he can strum his bed springs and play it like a harp. The music he plays is "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise".
On the set of this film, Oliver Hardy met his future wife, script supervisor ^[?] Virginia Lucille Jones.
The movie is at least a partial remake of Laurel & Hardy's four-reel comedy Beau Hunks. Charles Middleton plays a hostile camp commandant in both movies.
This is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's only non-Hal Roach-produced film in which Stan had a hand in the writing and editing (as he had in the Roach films).