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Robert Crewdson
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posted July 17, 2013 12:51 PM

Just came across this story about the finding of missing footage of Laurel & Hardy's last film 'Utopia' (aka Atoll K). It's not a new story, but I thought others might have missed it like me.
Personally I didn't think their final film too bad. I know they had problems due to Stan's health; I think it delayed the film by more than a year.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/bfi-news/bfi-unveils-long-lost-laurel-hardy-print

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Jim Schrader
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posted July 17, 2013 01:38 PM

was this ever released on super 8?

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Robert Crewdson
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posted July 17, 2013 02:24 PM

Hello Jim, I remember it being available from Niles Films. It's available on DVD.

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Michael O'Regan
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posted July 17, 2013 02:25 PM

It's not at all a bad film, IMO.

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Joe Caruso
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posted July 17, 2013 04:34 PM

There is also a fine book on ATOLL K

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Osi Osgood
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posted July 18, 2013 01:31 PM

Actually, I thought the lads work was pretty good on this film. Most people just concentrate on Stan's poor health (he was most certainly suffering), but I always thought that if I could get ahold of a super 8 print of "Atoll K", I would do my own edit and just concentrate mostly on the lads and get rid of most of the rest of the cast and largely wasted minutes of footage, and the lads were as good as always, but the rest of the cast really bogged this down.

I hope that they release a DVD of this (wow, from an original 35MM nitrate print) as it (according to the article) is the original run time, complete with a number of great sight gags and such by the lads. I bet this film will favor a little better with this release.

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Robert Crewdson
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posted July 19, 2013 08:33 AM

Just found this complete version on Ebay.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LAUREL-AND-HARDY-Atoll-K-UTOPIA-on-DVD-the-first-time-ever-uncut-/151060628571?pt=UK_CDsDVDs_DVDs_DVDs_GL&hash=item232bea445b

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