You can find many versions, some with, some without suzy delair's songs. Stan inherits a yacht and a south pacific island. Stan laurel and oliver hardy had made their final film appearance together.
Atoll K
The two great clowns, lured back to film amid the extensive stage tours of europe that were the poignant coda to their career, embark here on a ramshackle voyage to save stan’s pacific island inheritance.
Say the words “atoll k” to most laurel and hardy fans and they will cringe.
Ironically, because it is now in public domain, atoll k is one of their most readily available films on home video. As you know, atoll k (aka utopia, aka robinson crusoeland) was the final film from laurel and hardy. Second, laurel & hardy were ill during the production of “atoll k” and their poor health was too apparent on screen. The two great clowns, lured back to the screen amidst the extensive stage tours of europe that formed the poignant coda to their career, here embark upon a ramshackle sea voyage to save stan's.
Laurel was hospitalized twice during shooting, for prostate surgery and for dysentry, and according to mrs.
The team's last previous hollywood film had been in 1945. In 1954, but released in europe three years earlier). It is a sad day in comedy history, a sad day in film history.a sad day in history. Enjoy hundreds of legal movies (silent movie classics, documentaries, classic movies and more) in up to 4k quality:
Atoll k was the last movie the american and english comedy duo, stan laurel and oliver hardy featured in, produced in 1951 with an overdue timeline of twelve months, though the movie was supposed to be produced in twelve weeks.atoll k is a british abbreviation of air travel organizer’s license, which dominates the tone of the film from the abundant scenes of islands,.
For many laurel and hardy fans, atoll k holds an odd fascination, a surreal laurel and hardy dream where familiar elements drift in and out of bizarre trappings. It was the last film the duo starred in. After atoll k wrapped in april 1951, laurel and hardy returned to america and used the remainder of the year to rest. Atoll k is a laurel & hardy sound feature film released 17 october 1951.
Laurel he dropped 50 pounds during this period and eventually weighed in at 114 pounds.
17 october 1951 (france) 25 october 1951 (italy) produced by. Unfortunately, it was a dud. The film's very name is strange. Features, 1951, franco london features.
They shipwreck on a new atoll and settle there.
With stan laurel, oliver hardy, suzy delair, max elloy. Stan and oliver were both very ill and the shooting in france had a lot of troubles with it. Atoll k view source history talk (0) atoll k. Today a look at laurel and hardy's last film, the notorious utopia a.k.a atoll k a.k.a robinson crusoeland (released in the u.s.
He watched it more then many of the 'classics'.
Ollie and stan sail there with 2 other men. Atoll k (aka utopia) (1950) stan laurel is surprised when a large number of cats emerge from underneath his bunk in this last laurel and hardy film. A laurel and hardy cartoon; Directed by léo joannon, john berry, alfred j.
They declare an independent nation and problems arise.