Our Relations

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 L... more

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, Alf Laurel and Bert Hardy, who are dim-witted incompetents. Alf and Bert are sailors aboard the S.S Periwinkle. On board, of course, Alf and Bert wear seafaring garb. Once ashore, they dress in "civilian" clothes -- down to the traditional derbies -- making them nearly... less