It’s 1953 and Laurel and Hardy, the apex of their screen careers long behind them, embark on a live tour of the UK. ![]() It’s a film about friendship and careers in crisis, mediated through almost constant performance: while the laughs keep coming, attention to what’s going on between the lines and under the greasepaint clues us in to the real characters and the real relationship dynamics in play. Baird, Filth (2013), is somewhat stylized and constrained, but that’s totally appropriate, given that it’s about the last hurrah of two highly stylized screen comedians, Stan Laurel (Steve Coogan) and Oliver Hardy (John C. The untold story of the world’s greatest comedy act.
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