The Flying Deuces (Restored Edition) A. Edward Sutherland Digital Life DVD

The Flying Deuces (Restored Edition)
starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Arthur Housman
directed by: A. Edward Sutherland

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329036621
Format: DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, NTSC
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 03, 2004
Running Time: 65 minutes
Sales Rank: 35432
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 1939

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Unbeatable surreality
To give this less than 5/5 would be downright mean. In a world where a mass-produced urinal is the most significant work of art of the century, and a paint-spattered piece of canvas is worth $140 million, this masterpiece has to be recognized as one of the greatest and most dramatic works in movie history. The story is sheer magic: tragic, touching, wistful, it has a meaning all of its own. It is an eloquent, elegant summary of the human condition. Where are we heading? And why? Who is there to help and guide us? And how will the fish factory in Des Moines carry on without us? A boy, a girl, unrequited love: the old, old story. Thank heaven there is always someone either less, or more, intelligent than ourselves, who either does, or doesn't, know the score. Who can remind us how to forget. The silhouettes of the legionnaires at sunset were downright poetic. The misfits of humanity, caught up among the squads of ... Read More

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- Gee that's swell photograpghy
Ah life does imitate art. Almost 60 years after this film was made, a suicidal young man joined the US Marines to forget his girl troubles. This film will always have a special place in my heart.

Ollie falls in love while in Paris, to an inn keepers daughter. His proposal is turned down amidst laughter at his expense. Stan thinks that the best thing to do is to go back to the fish market where they work, but Ollie had nobler ideas, he must drown himself along with his broken heart. Of course Ollie convinces Stan that he must die too, after all what would Stan do without Ollie, aside from having a wonderful and rewarding life at the fish market. But thanks to some friendly advice and a man-eating shark, the boys decide to live again and join the French Foreign Legion.

What a Legion it is, work and march from sunup until sundown for 2 cents a day. Ollie tells the commandant that they refuse ... Read More

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- Two Laughs is Not Enough
I tried to hard to love this movie, but in all honesty, I thought it was painfully unfunny. I laughed twice - first when Ollie tells Stan that without him "people would stare at you and wonder what you are - and I wouldn't be here to tell them" and last at the very end when Ollie is reincarnated as a horse with a mustache and a hat. To be fair, I admit that I also smiled once to see Ollie's coy flirtation with the innkeeper's daughter.

Apart from that, the film was only interesting for its surprising bleakness at the beginning - there was something compelling about watching Ollie, suicidally depressed, decide that Stan too must die.

All in all, I was bored. The boys try hard to be funny but the material just isn't up to it. Two laughs is not enough.

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- Deuces review
Most L & H fans are by now familiar with this classic tale of Stan & Ollie in the French Foreign Legion so I will not discuss the merits of the plot line and focus instead upon the quality of this restored edition. On the whole, the images are crisp and the sound is consistently clear. There are occassional scratch and dirt marks but these are so infrequent and occur so quickly that they do not detract in any way from the viewing of this film. These elements, combined with some of the extras included on the CD make it an excellent value and a worthwhile addition to any collection of classic Laurel and Hardy films.

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