Needing to pay-up, the sailors try to catch-up with Finn, leaving the captain’s package – a pearl ring – for security and leaving a sticky situation for their doubles, Stan and Ollie (and their wives) to inevitably get caught up in. Alf and Bert are sent out by the captain to collect a package, but they meet some dames and having been swindled of their money earlier by Finn (James Finlayson) the boys are out of pocket when the girls order up a big feed. However their twins are very much alive and on board the HMS Periwinkle, which co-incidentally has just docked in the boys’ town. Stan and Ollie learn of the fate of their twin brothers Alf and Bert who, according to their mother, turned out to be bad lads who ran away to sea and were hanged after a mutiny. The main feature is the one of interest here, the longer format giving the duo more room to develop routines which are revisited for satisfactory pay-offs later in the film, although the two shorts are among the best-known and well-liked of their short features.
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Released as part of Universal’s Laurel & Hardy Collection, thematically grouping some of the comedy duo’s best work, Laurel & Hardy Volume 5: Our Relations contains one Laurel & Hardy feature, Our Relations (70 mins) and two 20 min shorts, Brats and Twice Two – each of the films relying on Stan and Ollie playing dual roles as respectively, their own twins, children and sisters. Released as part of Universal’s massive Laurel & Hardy Collection, this DVD collection gathers the duo’s dual role films, seeing them play their own twins, sons and sisters, causing double the trouble.