Lawrie Adam

Please can anyone tell me which film it is that Stan Laurel is marching with hundreds of other soldiers on the wrong foot and eventually ends up with all the other men changing to the other foot to match up to Stan!!? I've racked my brains trying to remember! Saw it a good few years ago.
Cheers
Lawrie

Pricey

It's either going to be "Pack Up Your Troubles" which was set in WWI or their Foreign Legion story, which was made twice - once as a short (Beau Hunks) and then remade later as a feature (Flying Deuces). I think from memory it might actually be in all three of them!

McGill

I think it might be in Bonnie Scotland.

crunchie

yep - Bonnie Scotland is the film where Stan marches out of step, and the soldiers follow Stan so that everyone ends up marching out of step!

batman

Is that the other film where they end up in the Foreign Legion?

Bats.

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Windthrop

They end up fighting in India in that one - it was about the time of the Gary Cooper film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

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harryfielder

I got the L.&H box set for crimbo (23 dvds) and watched my first one the other day.

A Chump at Oxford (1940)
Look at the last student in the cast...(still with his milk teeth )

Stan Laurel... Stan / Lord PaddingtonOliver Hardy... OllieCharlie Hall... Student (Hector) (as Charles Hall)
Peter Cushing... Student (Jones)more

http://www.turnipnet.com/aitch/aitch/gallery.htm

Windthrop

He is in The Man In The Iron Mask as well - he was also Louis Hayward's 'double' in the trick shots. He also turns up in a film opposite Carol Lombard in about 1940.

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batman

The Carole Lombard film is Vigil In The Night. I saw it a while ago. Quite a good film I thought.

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scholes

Thought it was Beau Chumps

scholes

Laurel and Hardy and their producer Hal Roach were far ahead of their time.Even
Ricky Gervais mimicks Ollie with that furtive glance at the camera after something profound has happened.
The slapstick was first class (I also liked Harold Lloyd and Keaton).
Stan Laurel was the brains behind it all, and he was from Birkenhead!!
One of the funniest sketches was when Ollie decides to elope with his beloved Dulcie (about the same build as Ollie) and who's protective father played by the omnipotent James Finlayson is dead against it.
Stan rolls up in the smallest car possible and the ensuing chaos is hilarious.

Nick Dando

The Stan Laurel museum is in Ulverston, where Stan was born in 1890.

Stan Laurel - Biography

So that doesn't make him a Scouser.

Nick

Pricey

Just checked on IMDB and can confirm that it was Beau Hunks in US and Beau Chumps in UK - two nations divided by a common language.

penfold

Clever piece of filmmaking. Those shots of Ollie looking at the camera, often fiddling with his tie, were deliberate breaks in the action to give the audience time to stop laughing from the gag preceding it, so the laughter didn't crash over the next gag, especially if it was a verbal rather than a sight gag.
They - well, Stan, actually - would then take a rough cut to a preview audience, and carefully time these laugh breaks, and re-edit the film to increase or decrease the breaks as appropriate to the audience reaction. Laurel was a highly experienced and serious craftsman before he teamed with Ollie...in fact, he was looking at a behind-camera career at the time, Laurel and Hardy was almost a last throw of the dice for him on the screen.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Harleybloke

Thanks Pen. I'm a big fan of L&H and didn't know that!

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