Jean Harlow as Jeannie-Weenie

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

Beau Hunks (1931)

Shout out to my man Stan Laurel, born 135 years ago on this day.

Probably the most homoerotic Laurel and Hardy film I’ve seen in exploring their usual bros before hoes theme: Laurel being open to marrying men, Hardy giving Laurel a bare foot massage, a closeup of Laurel’s ass.

In some ways this is a prototype for The Flying Deuces, although I don’t remember that one having the bloodthirsty streak that emerges here in the final act. Also, maybe because I watched this in the wrong aspect ratio, but it didn’t feel as cinematic as the later movie and how that one used the frame.