Watch The Flying Deuces (1939) Free Online

Release Date: 1939

Cast: Charles B. Middleton, Stan Laurel, Crane Whitley, Jean Del Val, Jean Parker, Oliver Hardy, Reginald Gardiner

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Foreign legion, Satire, Black-and-white, Slapstick

The Flying Deuces, also known as Flying Aces, is a 1939 comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy, in which the duo join the French Foreign Legion. It is a partial remake of their 1931 short film Beau Hunks. The boys are in Paris. Ollie proposes to the innkeeper's daughter Georgette, who is actually married to an officer, François. When she turns him down, Ollie decides to jump into the River Seine. He drags Stan along with him, and they discuss reincarnation: The boys are saved from suicide in the nick of time when François changes their mind and recruits them into the French Foreign... MORE

The Flying Deuces, also known as Flying Aces, is a 1939 comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy, in which the duo join the French Foreign Legion. It is a partial remake of their 1931 short film Beau Hunks. The boys are in Paris. Ollie proposes to the innkeeper's daughter Georgette, who is actually married to an officer, François. When she turns him down, Ollie decides to jump into the River Seine. He drags Stan along with him, and they discuss reincarnation: The boys are saved from suicide in the nick of time when François changes their mind and recruits them into the French Foreign Legion. They are sent to a fort in North Africa, where they disrupt drills, and are eventually sent to do laundry work. They accidentally throw wet underwear in the face of an officer and set a mountain of clothes on fire. They find that they are not army material (as one would guess) and they desert, after having sent an offensive letter to their commandant. They are imprisoned and sentenced to execution by firing squad. The boys find a secret tunnel, but it caves in. They manage to escape in an aircraft, despite Stan's initial protests ("Good old terra cotta firma for me any time,") and a hilariously LESS