Our Relations

Our Relations is a 1936 feature film starring Laurel and Hardy, produced by Stan Laurel for Hal Roach Studios. This is the third and last of only three films where the boys each play a dual role the first is Brats and the second is Twice Two.

In most of the Laurel and Hardy films, their usual Stan and Ollie characters are a pair of hopeless but likable dimwits, often just barely able to earn a living. In Our Relations, Stan and Ollie are respectable citizens with wives and steady employment. It is their seafaring twin brothers, Alf Laurel and Bert Hardy, who are dimwitted incompetents sailors aboard the S.S Periwinkle.On board, Alf and Bert wear seafaring garb. Once ashore, they dress in civilian clothesdown to the traditional derbiesmaking them nearly indistinguishable from their brothers. Stan always wore a bowtie, while Oliver wore the more conventional type. This is reversed for the brothers, with Alf wearing the usual style and Bert wearing the bowtie. Music cues also help differentiate between the twins Laurel amp Hardys theme song, Dance of the Cuckoos, plays when Stan and Ollie appear the tunes Sailing, Sailing over the Bounding Main or Sailors Hornpipe, play when Alf and Bert are onscreen. ........

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