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Our Relations is a 1936 feature film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, produced by Laurel for Hal Roach Studios. In the film, Laurel and Hardy star as both their famous Stan and Ollie characters and as Stan and Ollie's twin brothers Bert and Alf. The duo had previously made two other dual role films - Twice Two (in which they also played Stan and Ollie's wives) and Brats (in which they also played Stan and Ollie's children).
In most of the Laurel and Hardy films, their usual Stan and Ollie characters are a pair of hopeless 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 sea-faring twin brothers, Bert and Alf, who are dim-witted incompetents.
The film is distinguished by the camera work of famed cinematographer Rudolph Maté (The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)). There is an impressive process shot near the end of the film in which both Laurels and both Hardies are seen together: Stan and Ollie are walking side by side along a dock, with Bert and Alf following them.
Unbeknownst to Stanley and Oliver, their long-lost twin brothers, sailors Alfie and Bert are in town on shore leave carrying a valuable pearl ring entrusted to them by their ship's captain. All four get involved in multiple cases of mistaken identity as a gang of hoodlums try to steal the ring Stanley and Oliver wind up with their feet in cement, about to be dumped into the harbor. Written by Paul Penna







