Laurel and Hardy: In the Foreign Legion
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| German title | In the Foreign Legion |
| Original title | The Flying Deuces |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 65 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | A. Edward Sutherland |
| script | Ralph Spence , Charley Rogers , Fred Schiller , Harry Langdon |
| production | Boris Morros |
| music | John Leipold , Leo Shuken |
| camera | Kind of Lloyd |
| cut | Jack Dennis |
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In the Foreign Legion (original title: The Flying Deuces ) is an American film by Laurel & Hardy from 1939. The film had its premiere on November 3, 1939, while the German premiere on January 30, 1951 and the Austrian premiere on August 10, 1951. At that premiere it was published in both cases under the title "Dick and Doof in the Foreign Legion", later publications received the title u. a. "Out of lovesickness in the Foreign Legion" or "The two Foreign Legionaries" in Austria and "Flying Devils" or "Flying Devil Brothers" in Germany.
action
Stan and Ollie are on vacation in Paris. Ollie falls in love with Georgette, the hotelier's pretty daughter. Seeing her the marriage proposal does, he learns of her marriage to the officer Francois. Out of disappointment and frustration, Ollie wants to free himself from the Seine . He sees it as Stan's friend's duty to drown himself with him. Just before Ollie can commit suicide, Stan asks him what he would like to be born again as in the next life. Ollie says he would like to be a horse and now he finally wants to take action. An officer appears - Georgette's fiancé Francois, which Ollie doesn't know - and suggests that Ollie join the Foreign Legion so that he can forget his grief.
The two follow the advice but cannot cope with the tough life in the military. On the very first day, they are assigned to the laundry service, and in the course of their work they accidentally set fire to the entire mountain of laundry. Frustrated, they want to leave the Legion and leave the Legion commander a "farewell letter" in which they abuse him. They are sentenced to death by shooting as deserters. Thanks to an unknown helper, they manage to get outside through an underground tunnel. From then on, a chase begins that lures Stan and Ollie into a plane, with which they perform numerous breathtaking stunts before they crash. Stan survives the crash, but Ollie flies away as an angel. On a lonely stroll through the area, Stan discovers a horse that has the same voice, beard, and hat as Ollie. Then Ollie says, “ That's another nice soup that you got me there! "
backgrounds
For this film, Laurel & Hardy producer Hal Roach loaned the two to independent producer Boris Morros. Filming began in July 1939 and lasted until the end of summer. In A. Edward Sutherland, the film had a busy comedy director. Sutherland is said not to have got on very well with Stan Laurel. The film was not the first military comedy in which Laurel and Hardy took part: their short film In the Desert (Beau Hunks) from 1931 has a very similar plot, so The Flying Deuces is considered a remake of this film. Charles Middleton had already played the role of the commander in the previous version.
synchronization
- The first German version was produced by Mars-Film in the 1950s under the title Dick and Doof in the Foreign Legion . Walter Bluhm was Stan's German voice and Arno Paulsen was Ollies. Erik Ode wrote the dialogue book and also directed it. Charles Middleton was voiced by Bruno Fritz and James Finlayson by Franz Otto Krüger . Georgette was spoken by Bettina Schön .
- In 1975 Beta Technik produced a second dubbed version, which was broadcast in the series Laugh with Stan and Ollie under the title Flying Devil Brothers . Theo Lingen spoke a brief introduction, book and dialogue director took Wolfgang Schick and the music was created by Fred Strittmatter and Jr. Quirin Amper compiled. Walter Bluhm spoke again to Laurel and Michael Habeck took over the speaking role from Ollie. Heidi Treutler , known as the German voice of Barbara Eden in Bewitching Jeannie , lent her voice to Georgette. In addition, were Reinhard Glemnitz (Reginald Gardener), Christian Marschall (Charles Middleton), Werner Abrolat (Clem Wilenchick) Wolfgang Hess (Jean de Val), Norbert Gastell (Rychard Cramer) and Leo Bardischewski (James Finlayson) to hear.
Web links
- Laurel and Hardy: In the Foreign Legion in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Laurel and Hardy: In the Foreign Legion in the German synchronous file , 1st version
- Laurel and Hardy: In the Foreign Legion in the German synchronous file , 2nd version