Utopia
(1951)
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Utopia
(1951)
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| Stan Laurel | ... | ||
| Oliver Hardy | ... | ||
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Suzy Delair | ... |
Chérie Lamour
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Max Elloy | ... |
Antoine
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Suzet Maïs | ... |
Mrs. Dolan
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Adriano Rimoldi | ... |
Giovanni Copini
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Luigi Tosi | ... |
Lt. Jack Frazer
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Nicolas Amato |
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Guglielmo Barnabò | ... |
Propriétaire de la palissade
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Simone Bessy | ... |
Fortune Hunter
(as Simone Voisin)
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Lucien Callamand | ... |
Le porteur
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Vittorio Caprioli | ... |
Monsieur Paltroni, avocat italien
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Henri Cote |
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Michael Dalmatoff | ... |
Alecto
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Joé Davray |
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Heading for a newly inherited island, the boys are shipwrecked and marooned on an atoll which has just emerged from the sea. Along with their cook, a stowaway and a girl who is fleeing her fiancé, they set up their own government on the atoll. Uranium is discovered and world powers begin fighting over ownership of the island. Written by Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>
For new L&H fans, Stan and Ollie's appearance may be a shock. Stan looks VERY thin and has noticeably aged. Ollie, in contrast, has gained a LOT of weight.
If you can overlook their appearance, and the slow moving subplot, Atoll K does have some good comedy routines. However, their more elderly appearance does hamper what would otherwise be good gags. You just can't laugh at Stan while he is dealing with an inflating raft in the ship's cabin. He looks like he's truly in agony, and you want to help him instead of laugh at him. Also, the film is poorly edited. The original movie was 90 minutes long, but when re-released, it was shortened to a more tolerable 60 minutes. Most of the footage taken out was from the subplot, so taking out the extra half hour improved the movie.
While "The Boys" had more freedom to write gags and dialogue, nobody else on the crew had any idea what to expect in a L&H picture. Confusion and the illness of Stan and Ollie caused the picture to take an entire year to make! Not long after Atoll K was released, Ollie went on a diet and lost a LOT of weight, but it was too late.