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The Flying Deuces, also known as Flying Aces, is a 1939 buddy comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy, in which the duo join the French Foreign Legion. It is a partial remake of their short film Beau Hunks (1931).

Plot
While the boys are vacationing in Paris from working in a fish market in Des Moines, Ollie falls in love with Georgette (Jean Parker), the beautiful daughter of an innkeeper. Unbeknownst to him or Stan, she is married to a Foreign Legion officer named Francois (Reginald Gardiner). When Ollie summons the courage to propose to Georgette ("that is, if you don't mind"), she kindly rejects him because there is someone else...very much so. Heartbroken, Ollie at first contemplates suicide. He is joined by his friend Stan in sinking himself in the Seine River. (In some cuts of the film this proceeding is complicated by the presence of an "escaped shark".) Stan repeatedly interrupts Ollie as he is about to throw the weight in, and asks him to consider the possibility of reincarnation. Ollie decides his preference is to return as a horse. Francois catches sight of them and convinces them instead to enlist in the Foreign Legion in order to forget Ollie's failed romance. When Stan asks how long it will take Ollie to forget, Francois says it will only take a matter of a few days.

The commandant (Charles B. Middleton) introduces Ollie and Stan to their daily legionnaire duties, for which their daily wage is 100 centimes, which, translated into American currency amounts to only three cents. Naturally Ollie and Stan refuse because they don't work for less than twenty-five cents per diem. For this uppity attitude they are sentenced to hard menial labor, washing and ironing a mountain of laundry, with legion officers constantly hounding them. Finally and 'miraculously', Ollie forgets his broken romance completely. His and Stan's purpose in joining the Foreign Legion fulfilled, they abandon their task, discarding the still hot iron, which unintentionally sets the laundry pile aflame. Angered by the hard work and low pay of the Foreign Legion, Ollie writes the commander a very stern and insulting farewell letter and signs it.

After leaving the commandant's office, they eventually meet Georgette again. Ollie, delighted that she has seemingly changed her mind and come back to him, proceeds to embrace and kiss her. An enraged Francois, upon witnessing this, confronts Ollie and sternly informs him that Georgette happens to be his wife; then he threateningly warns him to keep away from Georgette lest he suffer torturous consequences. After Francois leaves, the commandant arrives and, having discovered first the flaming mountain of laundry and then Ollie's insulting farewell note, places them both under arrest for the death penalty offense of desertion. They are taken to military prison, court martialed in absentia, and sentenced to death by firing squad at dawn. Stan amazes Ollie by playing "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" on the bedsprings. As he is about to play another piece, the jailor yells at them to be quiet. Later, an unknown sympathetic fellow Legionnaire throws in a note that says an escape tunnel leads from their cell to the outside wall. Stan brings on an accidental cave-in which causes the underground path to lead to Francois and Georgette's dwelling. The whole Legion engages in hot pursuit of the boys, who flee to a nearby hangar and hide out in an airplane, which Stan accidentally starts up. The boys repeatedly fly it and land until it crashes. Stan emerges unharmed, but waves a meek goodbye as the angel of Ollie ascends into Heaven. Much later, an elated Stan later bumps into a talking horse, from whom the voice of a reincarnated Ollie grumpily remarks, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into."
(Wikipedia)

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