Les deux légionnaires

Titre original : Beau Hunks

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Pour permettre à Oliver d'oublier un chagrin d'amour, Stan et ce dernier s'engagent dans la Légion où ils découvrent que la jeune femme est en fait une fille légère qui a déjà fait les beaux... Tout lirePour permettre à Oliver d'oublier un chagrin d'amour, Stan et ce dernier s'engagent dans la Légion où ils découvrent que la jeune femme est en fait une fille légère qui a déjà fait les beaux jours de nombreux légionnaires.Pour permettre à Oliver d'oublier un chagrin d'amour, Stan et ce dernier s'engagent dans la Légion où ils découvrent que la jeune femme est en fait une fille légère qui a déjà fait les beaux jours de nombreux légionnaires.

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Rôles principaux23

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Stan Laurel

Stan

Oliver Hardy

Ollie

James W. Horne

Chief of the Riff Raff
(as Abul Kasim K'Horne)

Charles Middleton

Commandant

Broderick O'Farrell

Fort Arid Commander
(as Broderick O'Farrel)

Harry Schultz

Captain Schultz

Billy Bletcher

New Recruit #11
(non crédité)

Baldwin Cooke

New Recruit
(non crédité)

Gordon Douglas

Fort Arid Legionnaire
(non crédité)

Dick Gilbert

New Recruit
(non crédité)

Charlie Hall

New Recruit #13
(non crédité)

Jean Harlow

Jeanie Weenie - in Photo
(non crédité)

Marvin Hatley

Riffian
(non crédité)

Jack Hill

Riffian
(non crédité)

Ham Kinsey

New Recruit
(non crédité)

Bob Kortman

New Recruit
(non crédité)

Sam Lufkin

Riffian
(non crédité)

Oscar Morgan

New Recruit
(non crédité)

Histoire

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Le saviez-vous

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Anecdotes
In the slang of the time "Bohunk", a conflation of "Bohemian" and "Hungarian", was a very pejorative term for a person (almost always a male). The title is a play on this word as well as a reference to the novel "Beau Geste" published in 1924 and turned into the film Beau Geste (1926). Also, sometimes "Bohunk" was reduced to "hunk"; so to call a man a hunk was not a compliment.

Gaffes
Ollie falls down on a piano, which smashes to bits (and is obviously an empty prop). When the camera cuts in closer, Ollie's stomach is suddenly covered with piano hammers and other bits from the interior of a real piano, none of which were there in the first shot.

Citations
Ollie: Didn't I just tell you I was going to be married?
Stan: Who to?
Ollie: Why, a woman of course. Did you ever hear of anybody marrying a man?
Stan: Sure.
Ollie: Who?
Stan: My sister.

Crédits fous
Cast list concludes with 3897 Arabs, 1921 Riffians and four native Swede guides.

Versions alternatives
The film was reissued in 1937 with a few cuts to comply with the 1934 Production Code, including a dialogue about fertilizer at the beginning. The 1937 version is the only one surviving, as the original cut was lost.

Connexions
Edited into Dance of the Cookoos (1982)

Bandes originales
The Ideal of My Dreams
(1910) (uncredited)
Written by Herbert Ingraham
Played on piano and Sung by Oliver Hardy

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The title is not without its own humour

Although "Beau Geste" had already been made

with Ronald Coleman in 1926, "Beau Hunks" is not just a funny play on words.

Unlike today, being called a hunk was not a compliment. In those days, "Hunk," "Hunky," or "Bohunk" was a pejorative term for an Eastern European --- (It's a conflation of "Bohemian" and "Hungarian.) The general connotation of the term was that of a stupid, not necessarily clean, undesirable immigrant. So to call someone a Bohunk was quite an insult.

It's a pity that the extremely stupid guidelines require ten lines of text, when I could have said everything in five. Are they perhaps taken from the IRS tech-writing standards for tax laws?