In recounting the story of Laurel and Hardy, whose Hollywood career spanned 24 years and more than a hundred films, a good place to begin turns out to be the end. Stan & Ollie dispenses with origin stories—Stan Laurel’s in the British music-hall business with Charlie Chaplin, Oliver Hardy’s in the remote Florida film industry of a century ago—and after making a brief stop at the Hal Roach Studios near Los Angeles in 1937, during the duo’s years of worldwide glory, moves on to 1953, when the movie work has dried up and we find the two troupers on a theatrical tour of Britain and Ireland, parading their old comedy bits across provincial stages for adoring but meager audiences.
Director Jon S. Baird and writer Jeff Pope have made a movie of gratifying simplicity, writes Kurt Loder.
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