But the grueling tour is humbling, the small theatres not selling out, the world having moved on. Laurel & Hardy mount a comeback tour over in the UK, supposedly culminating in a movie deal. It’s been 15 years since those unsuccessful contract negotiations, and the world has assumed that the pair have been retired. Which, interestingly, is where the movie begins. Ultimately their careers tanked and that was the end, or nearly the end, of Laurel & Hardy. Too afraid to risk his small piece of the pie for the whole damn dessert, Hardy stayed behind, and even allowed himself to be reteamed with someone else. He got himself a better deal elsewhere, but the problem was, Ollie didn’t walk with him. When Stan’s contract was up (and Ollie’s was not), he saw it as an opportunity to negotiate – or leave. Producers and managers pocketed their millions. They drew salaries but never saw profits akin to their success. They became the most famous comedy duo on the planet, but the trouble was, they didn’t own any rights. Laurel and Hardy were as manufactured and packaged as any boy band they started out as strangers, but when producers threw them together, their careers became inextricably combined.
Reilly) were like a 90s-era boy band and Hal Roach (Danny Huston) is their Lou Pearlman. In the 1930s, at the height of their career, Stanley Laurel (Steve Coogan) & Oliver Hardy (John C. This is a more intimate look at the team, an insider’s look as we are invited to know them by their first names. There’s another side to this comedy duo, a lesser known side, and we’re about to be privy 2.
Better known to the world as Laurel & Hardy, two things are communicated with the title Stan & Ollie: 1.
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