The Flying Deuces

The Flying Deuces follows Stan and Ollie, the comedy duo played by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, after Ollie falls for a woman he meets in Paris. When he learns she is already married, he tries to take his own life, but the attempt fails. The two then join the Foreign Legion to put their troubles behind them, only to run into difficulties with their superiors in the desert and face serious consequences after they try to leave.

A. Edward Sutherland directed the film, working from a screenplay by Charley Rogers, Ralph Spence and Fred Schiller, with Boris Morros producing for RKO Radio Pictures. Jean Parker appears as Georgette, Reginald Gardiner as Francois, and Charles Middleton as the Commandant, among a credited cast of 21. The film runs 69 minutes and was released in November 1939. Among the features Sutherland directed, it is the earlier one, preceding The Invisible Woman.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.7 from around 6,200 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.4 from roughly 184 votes. The two audience scores sit close together, indicating a fairly consistent response, with the larger vote count on IMDb giving that figure more weight.