This is a truly entertaining film, not without its flaws. Prior to joining the Foreign Legion, the two have some really funny scenes.
The logic of a Laurel and Hardy film is worthy of Lewis Carroll.
Spoilers follow: One really funny scene is when they were in prison, sentenced to be executed at dawn, and Stan uses a set of bedsprings as a kind of harp, to play music to while away the hours. So his selection? "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise." The flying sequences, alas, were lame. I'm a fan of the duo, and the only "flying" sequence less realistic than this was Humphrey Bogart in Chain Lightning.
The logic of a Laurel and Hardy film is worthy of Lewis Carroll.
Spoilers follow: One really funny scene is when they were in prison, sentenced to be executed at dawn, and Stan uses a set of bedsprings as a kind of harp, to play music to while away the hours. So his selection? "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise." The flying sequences, alas, were lame. I'm a fan of the duo, and the only "flying" sequence less realistic than this was Humphrey Bogart in Chain Lightning.