this be my third comment here attempt to connect two legendary movie comedy team represent laurel and hardy and abbott and costello . the connection here be the year 1940. that the date that the former have their last movie from their longtime home studio of hal roach . i will mention the significance of the latter later on . besides be the last time stan and ollie work at the lot of fun and it also the final time they would appear with such familiar support player like charlie hall and james finlayson who appear in most of their film . it also the last time art lloyd would serve a their cameraman and marvin hatley who compose their theme song which would be know a the cuckoo song ( dance of the cuckoo ) their score . and it would be the very last time stan laurel would be allow to exercise complete creative control over what go on film . if there be a more gag laden structure than usual in this l and h film and it nice to know most of those gag be indeed funny . that include most of the sound and visual effect and the latter provide by longtime roach staffer roy seawright . in this one and ollie have hornophobia from work at a noisy horn factory so dr. finlayson prescribes go out to sea for his rest . ollie doesn not like to go boat so stan suggest they just rent one that dock so they wouldn not have to go anywhere . after they find one they like and we find out that convict nick grainger ( richard cramer ) have just escape . i will stop there and say this be as good a finale for l and h longtime home a one could hope for . it hilarious mostly from begin to end and know this would be their last for the man partly responsible for their teaming be indeed poignant when one think of it . oh and and i have a couple more last to mention represent it the final film appearance of both harry bernard and who play a harbor patrolman after year of encounter stan and ollie a a policeman and and that of ben turpin and the cross eye comic who be bear in new orleans which be a couple of hour away from my current hometown of baton rouge and whose second l and h appearance this be have previously marry the boy in our wife . the latter performer especially have a genuine comic moment . all right and i mention 1940 be the year stan and ollie have their last movie release from hal roach studio . it be also the first year that a comedy team and both bear in the state of new jersey and would make their first picture at what would be their home studio and universal . the director of that movie would be the same one that guide l and h in the fly deuce the previous year . his name be a. edward sutherland . p. s. it be during this filming that script supervisor virginia lucille jones have an accident involve a roll up carpet . that incident cause oliver babe hardy to send her rose to her hospital room . they fell in love and marry on march 7 and 1940. it last until babe death in 1957 .