This is my second attempt in reviewing a movie that connects two classic movie comedy teams: Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello. In this case, the connection is the director but I'll get to that later. Having just reunited with Oliver Hardy after Hardy briefly went solo in Zenobia due to some contract dispute with Hal Roach, Stan Laurel and Ollie would be loaned to independent producer Boris Morros for The Flying Deuces. It ended up being a remake of their four reeler Beau Hunks with Charles Middleton once again playing a mean commandant. In this one, Ollie is trying to forget a girl who turned him down for marriage so he and Stan join the Foreign Legion. Plenty of funny gags abound during the first 30 minutes while the last 40 is uneven especially toward the end but the boys are charming throughout even during the number "Shine On, Harvest Moon" with Hardy warbling while Laurel dances though I did wonder if Stan really played the harp in a later jail sequence (probably not, judging from Ollie's reactions). Among Roach veterans involved are cameraman Art Lloyd, writer Charles Rogers, and usual L & H supporting regular James Finlayson. Another writer, comic Harry Langdon, also provided the drawing of the boys in the first scene (and perhaps during the opening credits). One more note about the supporting cast: Jean Parker, who plays the girl Ollie's trying to forget, had previously played his daughter in Zenobia. That movie's producer was A. Edward Sutherland who also directed this film. He didn't like the experience as he wasn't accustomed to the star calling some of the shots. In fact, before his death, Sutherland said of Laurel, "I'd rather have worked with a tarantula." He probably had a much better time the following year when he introduced another comedy team on film that had just finished a Broadway run in "Streets of Paris"... P.S. This was where Hardy met his future wife, Virginia Lucille Jones, who was the script clerk here.