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Atoll K
Atoll K is a 1951 Franco-Italian co-production film—also known as Robinson Crusoeland in the United Kingdom and Utopia in the United States – which stars the comedy team Laurel and Hardy in their final screen appearance. The film co-stars French singer/actress Suzy Delair and was directed by Léo Joannon, with uncredited co-direction by blacklisted American director John Berry.
Stan claims an inheritance left by his affluent uncle, significantly diminished by taxes and legal fees, leaving him cash-poor but with a dilapidated yacht and a private island in the South Seas. Stan and Ollie sail for the island alongside Antoine, a stateless refugee, and Giovanni Copini, an Italian stone mason hiding aboard the boat.
During the voyage, the engine fails. Ollie's attempts to repair it prove futile, due to Stan's inadvertent mishandling of the components. Forced to use the sail, the crew contends with a storm at sea, which strands the boat on an uncharted island. The four sailors cultivate the land and settle into a comfortable lifestyle.
An indefinite time passes, and nightclub singer Chérie Lamour is fleeing her possessive fiancé, navy lieutenant Jack Frazer. A sympathetic sailor offers to escort her ashore, but his suspicious wife casts her adrift at gunpoint, and Cherie heads for land -- Laurel & Hardy's island. The four men are enchanted by Cherie, and she becomes their guest.
Stan and Ollie, still smarting from their heavy taxation, decide to establish their own government so that no other country can claim the island. Inspired by Robinson Crusoe, they call their island Crusoeland, and declare no laws, taxes, and immigration restrictions.
News of the new, wide-open country attracts hordes of people. The discovery of uranium results in global interest, culminating in a tumultuous revolt to displace the island's founders. The four male castaways are about to be hanged when another violent storm erupts, causing the new arrivals to flee the island.
Antoine goes back to France as a stateless person, but he gets eaten by a lion after trying to escape by hiding in its cage. Giovanni returns to Italy, where he builds fences. Cherie and Lt. Frazer finally get married in a quarrelsome ceremony. This leaves Stan and Ollie alone at last, enjoying the peace and quiet -- until a government official and his crew confiscate our heroes' goods and provisions, citing non-payment of taxes. Oliver then tells Stan "Well, Here's Another Nice Mess You've Gotten Me Into!" and Stan whimpers in response.
In the late 1940s, Laurel and Hardy were without film employment. Earlier in the decade, they ended their long association with producer Hal Roach and signed to make a series of films at both 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In post-World War II Europe, Laurel and Hardy were enjoying a new popularity with audiences that had been unable to see their movies during wartime. As a result of this, the pair received an offer from a French-Italian cinematic consortium to star in a film to be produced in France for $1.5 million, a large budget for the era.
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Atoll K
Atoll K is a 1951 Franco-Italian co-production film—also known as Robinson Crusoeland in the United Kingdom and Utopia in the United States – which stars the comedy team Laurel and Hardy in their final screen appearance. The film co-stars French singer/actress Suzy Delair and was directed by Léo Joannon, with uncredited co-direction by blacklisted American director John Berry.
Stan claims an inheritance left by his affluent uncle, significantly diminished by taxes and legal fees, leaving him cash-poor but with a dilapidated yacht and a private island in the South Seas. Stan and Ollie sail for the island alongside Antoine, a stateless refugee, and Giovanni Copini, an Italian stone mason hiding aboard the boat.
During the voyage, the engine fails. Ollie's attempts to repair it prove futile, due to Stan's inadvertent mishandling of the components. Forced to use the sail, the crew contends with a storm at sea, which strands the boat on an uncharted island. The four sailors cultivate the land and settle into a comfortable lifestyle.
An indefinite time passes, and nightclub singer Chérie Lamour is fleeing her possessive fiancé, navy lieutenant Jack Frazer. A sympathetic sailor offers to escort her ashore, but his suspicious wife casts her adrift at gunpoint, and Cherie heads for land -- Laurel & Hardy's island. The four men are enchanted by Cherie, and she becomes their guest.
Stan and Ollie, still smarting from their heavy taxation, decide to establish their own government so that no other country can claim the island. Inspired by Robinson Crusoe, they call their island Crusoeland, and declare no laws, taxes, and immigration restrictions.
News of the new, wide-open country attracts hordes of people. The discovery of uranium results in global interest, culminating in a tumultuous revolt to displace the island's founders. The four male castaways are about to be hanged when another violent storm erupts, causing the new arrivals to flee the island.
Antoine goes back to France as a stateless person, but he gets eaten by a lion after trying to escape by hiding in its cage. Giovanni returns to Italy, where he builds fences. Cherie and Lt. Frazer finally get married in a quarrelsome ceremony. This leaves Stan and Ollie alone at last, enjoying the peace and quiet -- until a government official and his crew confiscate our heroes' goods and provisions, citing non-payment of taxes. Oliver then tells Stan "Well, Here's Another Nice Mess You've Gotten Me Into!" and Stan whimpers in response.
In the late 1940s, Laurel and Hardy were without film employment. Earlier in the decade, they ended their long association with producer Hal Roach and signed to make a series of films at both 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In post-World War II Europe, Laurel and Hardy were enjoying a new popularity with audiences that had been unable to see their movies during wartime. As a result of this, the pair received an offer from a French-Italian cinematic consortium to star in a film to be produced in France for $1.5 million, a large budget for the era.