Marriot.) By this time Laurel and Hardy have embarked on a UK tour, re-creating routines from their movies (“County Hospital” and the like) in Newcastle and Glasgow, for a loyal if dwindling audience. (The script’s based loosely on the book “Laurel & Hardy: The British Tours” by A.J.
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The rest of screenwriter Jeff Pope’s version of events unfolds in 1953. Then they stroll down a series of hallways, across the studio lot, and straight into the filming of the now-classic soft-shoe routine from “Way Out West.” An unassuming six-minute tracking shot begins with Stan and Babe in their dressing room, bantering about debts, ex-wives, testy contract negotiations with their producer, Hal Roach (Danny Huston).
Baird’s fleet-footed picture begins in 1937, at the zenith of the duo’s film career. These are two comedy lions in winter, near the end of their eternally entwined careers, when they were down but not out.
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