![]() ![]() Steve Coogan and John C Reilly give great portrayals of Laurel and Hardy. It has a persuasive feel for this twilight of the comedy gods. Jon S Baird’s feature appears fictionally to conflate the tour with the wintry mood of later UK tours when Stan and Ollie’s health and career worries had escalated further. Well, here were film stars dying night after night in Newcastle, Glasgow and Worthing. Recently we had Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, about Gloria Grahame’s theatrical engagements in Britain. In 1952, at a low point professionally, out of fashion in the United States, their relationship under stress and needing money, they took on a British tour, sometimes to painfully sparse audiences. T his sweet, sad film is about a little-known final chapter in the lives of comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
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