Why is there a new release? Because a lot of Laurel & Hardy aficionados, like myself, feel the filmĭeserves a respectful treatment. Language barriers being one of them, but the biggest problem is Stan’s health and physical appearance. So I think a lot of people appreciate it for what it is… a brave effort by the boys, but one that didn’t reach its Even he couldn’t bring himself to say he hated it. Even Laurel & Hardy’s official biographer called it “a mess… occasionally a nice mess,īut mostly a messy mess”. It, but many others, including authors Randy Skretvedt and Norbert Aping, are highly appreciative of it. Hate is an awfully strong word, I wouldn’t say MOST people hate it. Why there is a new release of Atoll K, because most of the L&H hate it?
I liked it so much I immediately bought a super-8 print (I could buy 100 $1 DVDs for what I paid for it 40 years ago!) so I could watch it over and
But I really enjoyed it, I found it very different from their other films but still very funny, and the rest of theĪudience agreed. Everson's book, so I was excited but expecting the worst. I'd been fascinated by it since reading about it It was pre-video (1977 or so?), so it was impossible to see at the time and it was a 16mm print. Theatre at the Dearborn Michigan public library. I'm going to say I first saw it when I was about 16 or 17, at a screening in a lovely little Thank you for awnsering my questions, Chris! He also wrote an article about "Atoll K" which you can find "Atoll K" will also be released on blu-ray by the British Film Reilly, with a fabulous screenplay by Jeff Pope.
But also the tragic side of "Atoll K" could be a movie, in the style of theĪmazing "Stan & Ollie" by Jon S. Imagine if Stan and Ollie were on the same set in greatĬondition, completely misunderstanding the director and doing the wrong things.
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The making of "Atoll K" could be a drama movie and a comedy movie at the same time. Only people who could speak in the English language. Stan and Oliver were both very ill and the shooting in France had a lot of troubles with it. Why? The most Laurel and Hardy-fans don't want to remember LaurelĪnd Hardy because of that picture. He watched it more then many of the 'classics'. Turner/Warner Bros currently possess the original negative, but have not released the film.Chris Seguin is a huge Laurel and Hardy-fan who has an obsession with "Atoll K". As such, it regularly appears on inexpensive DVD or video compilations. Stan and Ollie as “légionnaires” in The Flying Deuces The Flying Deuces is one of two Laurel and Hardy features in the public domain, the other being Atoll K. Who are the Legionnaires in the Flying Deuces? Turner/Warner Bros currently possess the original negative, but have not released the film. The Flying Deuces is one of two Laurel and Hardy features in the public domain, the other being Atoll K. Is the Flying Deuces in the public domain? At the beginning of the film, the innkeeper’s daughter is seen looking at a framed photograph of Ollie. Edward Sutherland and Stan Laurel did not get along during filming, with Sutherland having reportedly commented that he “would rather eat a tarantula than work with Laurel again”. Who was the director of the Flying Deuces?ĭirector A.
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