Description
The feature film finale of cinema’s most-beloved comedy duo, Atoll K marked Laurel and Hardy’s long-delayed big-screen return. 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 Pacific-island inheritance. This ambitious attempt to invest their time-honed slapstick with a satirical edge is a testament to the duo’s indefatigable comic antics. The BFI is proud to release the longest-ever English language cut of this historically important film, presented for the first time in High Definition and showcasing a new 2K restoration by the BFI using original 35mm nitrate film elements.
Special features:
- Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition
- Mother’s Baby Boy (1914, 4 mins)
- Something in Her Eye (1915, 11 mins)
- Do You Love Your Wife? (1919, 14 mins)
- Somewhere in Wrong (1925, 23 mins)
- Should Men Walk Home? (1927, 27 mins)
- Laurel and Hardy in Tynemouth, aka Grand Hotel (1932, 11 mins)
- Laurel and Hardy in Scotland (1947, 3 mins)
- Railway Birthday Party (1947, 2 mins)
- Laurel and Hardy Return to the UK (1952, 2 mins)
- US trailer (c1954)
- German trailer (c1951)
- Interview With Stan Laurel (1957, 80 mins, audio only): Stan discusses his life and work with Arthur B Friedman in a recoding made a week after Ollie’s death
