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* AuthorityInNameOnly: Ollie is elected president of "Crusoeland", but as he and the others deliberately wrote their constitution to give their new country essentially no laws, he really has no real power. This isn't a problem until immigrants start pouring in and Ollie realizes they have no provisions allowing him to deport or otherwise punish the inevitable bad actors taking advantage of the lax laws.
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* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: When everything goes south on the island, Cherie contacts her ex-fiancé to come and help. Following the climactic fight with the villain and the island sinking in another storm, the main characters are left floating on a raft in the ocean, but spot their salvation as the fiancé's ship approaches... only for Cherie to stubbornly stop waving when she recognizes it, [[SkewedPriorities complaining that she doesn't want to be rescued by him because he took to long getting there]].
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* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: When everything goes south on the island, Cherie contacts her ex-fiancé to come and help. Following the climactic fight with the villain and the island sinking in another storm, the main characters are left floating on a raft in the ocean, but spot their salvation as the fiancé's ship approaches... only for Cherie to stubbornly stop waving when she recognizes it, [[SkewedPriorities complaining that she doesn't want to be rescued by him because he took to too long getting there]].
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* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: When everything goes south on the island, Cherie contacts her ex-fiancé to come and help. Following the climactic fight with the villain and the island sinking in another storm, the main characters are left floating on a raft in the ocean, but spot their salvation as the fiancé's ship approaches... only for Cherie to stubbornly stop waving when she recognizes it, [[SkewedPriorities complaining that she doesn't want to be rescued by him because he took to long getting there]].
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* DownerEnding: Antone is still a stateless wanderer, Giovanni is stuck back in Italy painting fences, and Stan and Ollie have their island paradise confiscated for failure to pay taxes.
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* DownerEnding: Antone Antoine is still a stateless wanderer, wanderer (and ends up eaten by a lion), Giovanni is stuck back in Italy painting fences, and Stan and Ollie have their island paradise confiscated for failure to pay taxes.
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* TheStateless: Antoine is a stateless refugee aboard a boat and ends up citizen of "Crusoeland", an island found by the boat.
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* TheStateless: Antoine is a stateless refugee aboard a boat and ends up citizen of "Crusoeland", an island found by the boat. This ends up becoming a plot point as he is technically the first to set foot on the island, meaning that no country can claim sovereignty when the discovery of uranium makes it suddenly desirable.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Well, he took all of the Stan and Ollie's belongings (because they failed to pay their tax). Resulted in Oliver ranting to Stan, "Well, Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
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It is the final movie starring [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]]. It sees the duo set sail to a deserted island.
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It is the final movie starring stars [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]]. Hardy]]. It sees seems that Stan had an uncle, who, when he died, left Stan a fortune, a yacht, and a private island in the duo set sail South Seas. Unscrupulous lawyers take most of the money, but Stan and Ollie get to keep the yacht. As they are leaving Marseilles, they pick up two passengers. Antoine is a deserted island.stateless man who, without citizenship, agrees to work for Stan and Ollie and go to their island because he literally has nowhere else to go. They also get a stowaway in the person of Giovanni, a bricklayer.
The gang sets sail, but never make it to Stan's island. Instead a storm shipwrecks them on a completely different island. Luckily this island has drinking water, edible fruit, and plenty of shellfish by the shore. Stan, Ollie, Antoine, and Giuseppe construct their own little island paradise. They are eventually joined by Cherie, a gorgeous French cabaret singer who gets all the men excited. However, further complications ensue.
Laurel and Hardy's last film. A notorious TroubledProduction which staggered on for a full year.
The gang sets sail, but never make it to Stan's island. Instead a storm shipwrecks them on a completely different island. Luckily this island has drinking water, edible fruit, and plenty of shellfish by the shore. Stan, Ollie, Antoine, and Giuseppe construct their own little island paradise. They are eventually joined by Cherie, a gorgeous French cabaret singer who gets all the men excited. However, further complications ensue.
Laurel and Hardy's last film. A notorious TroubledProduction which staggered on for a full year.
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* DownerEnding: Antone is still a stateless wanderer, Giovanni is stuck back in Italy painting fences, and Stan and Ollie have their island paradise confiscated for failure to pay taxes.
* PepperSneeze: Cherie dangles a flower under the nose of the guard...one that has been dosed with pepper. When he sneezes she clocks him on the back of the head, and thus she is able to free Stan and Ollie.
* ShowSomeLeg: Cherie dangles a bare calf to draw the attention of the guard outside the shack where Stan and Ollie are locked up.
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* ThunderEqualsDownpour: The four men are relaxing on deck in what seems to be a tranquil sea. Then a clap of thunder announces the near-instantaneous storm that winds up shipwrecking them on a deserted island.
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** The four men are relaxing on deck in what seems to be a tranquil sea. Then a clap of thunder announces the near-instantaneous storm that winds up shipwrecking them on a desertedisland.island.
** A similar clap of thunder signals the titanic storm that floods the whole island and winds up floating the gallows away, with the whole gang on it.
** The four men are relaxing on deck in what seems to be a tranquil sea. Then a clap of thunder announces the near-instantaneous storm that winds up shipwrecking them on a deserted
** A similar clap of thunder signals the titanic storm that floods the whole island and winds up floating the gallows away, with the whole gang on it.
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* BatScare: Multiple times Stan and Ollie are terrified by bats getting into their little hut.
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* PlotHole: Cherie wants to get away from her fiancé. So she...has herself dropped off on a DesertedIsland? Really?
* QuittingToGetMarried: Cherie's fiancé the naval officer demands that she quit being TheChanteuse and support him. She refuses to do so since he spends most of his time at sea anyway. This results in their wedding being called off even as they're in front of the judge who is waiting to perform the ceremony.
* QuittingToGetMarried: Cherie's fiancé the naval officer demands that she quit being TheChanteuse and support him. She refuses to do so since he spends most of his time at sea anyway. This results in their wedding being called off even as they're in front of the judge who is waiting to perform the ceremony.
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* DesertedIsland: Stan, Ollie, and their two companions are shipwrecked on a deserted island.
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* {{Narrator}}: Heard a couple of times, like at the beginning to introduce the story, and at the midpoint when the narrator describes how the boys have settled the island, before shifting the scene to Tahiti and introducing Cherie the nightclub singer.
* {{Robinsonade}}: The yacht wrecks on a DesertedIsland, but it just so happens Ollie had a copy of ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' on the boat! Using the novel as inspiration, Stan, Ollie, Antoine, and Giovanni establish their own little society. They even grow crops.
* {{Robinsonade}}: The yacht wrecks on a DesertedIsland, but it just so happens Ollie had a copy of ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' on the boat! Using the novel as inspiration, Stan, Ollie, Antoine, and Giovanni establish their own little society. They even grow crops.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Stan and Ollie find the life boat in a bag. When Stan wonders at how small it is, Ollie explains that there's a charge of compressed air that will blow the raft up in a jiffy. Sure enough, later Stan blunders his way into inflating the raft, while it's still inside the cabin of the yacht.
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* {{Malaproper}}: Stanley as always. He observes that Ollie needs glasses then says "When we get to the island you'd better see an optimist."
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''Robinson Crusoeland'' (original title ''Atoll K''; also known as ''Utopia'' in the USA) is a 1951 French-Italian comedy movie directed by Leo Joannon and an uncredited John Berry.
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* FatAndSkinny: True throughout the duo's career but never more so than this one. Laurel's health problems during the [[invoked]]TroubledProduction saw him lose a lot of weight, to the point where he looked positively gaunt, while Hardy's weight ballooned to 330 pounds.
* ForgottenTrope: "Uranium fever", the 1950s-era trope in which uranium was a substitute for GoldFever. Stan and Ollie's island paradise is ruined when it's discovered to be rich with uranium deposits.
* ForgottenTrope: "Uranium fever", the 1950s-era trope in which uranium was a substitute for GoldFever. Stan and Ollie's island paradise is ruined when it's discovered to be rich with uranium deposits.
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* UnexpectedInheritance: Stan inherits a yacht and an island from a deceased uncle.
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* TheStateless: Antoine is a stateless refugee aboard a boat and ends up citizen of "Crusoeland", an island found by the boat.
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''Robinson Crusoeland'' (also (original title ''Atoll K''; also known as ''Utopia'' in the USA) is a 1951 British-French French-Italian comedy movie and is the final movie starring [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]].Creator/LaurelAndHardy. It sees the duo set sail to a deserted island.
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''Robinson Crusoeland'' (AKA (also known as ''Utopia'' in the USA) is a 1951 British British-French comedy movie and is the final movie starring [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]]. It sees the duo set sail to a deserted island.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: When the London Mayor called Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel. And Oliver Hardy says "Uh, No no! I am Oliver Hardy!"
* TheBadGuyWins: Well, He took all of the Stan and Ollie's belongings (because they failed to pay their tax). Resulted in Oliver ranting to Stan, "Well, Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
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* AccidentalMisnaming: When the London Mayor called Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel. And Laurel, Oliver Hardy says "Uh, No no! I am Oliver Hardy!"
* TheBadGuyWins: Well,He he took all of the Stan and Ollie's belongings (because they failed to pay their tax). Resulted in Oliver ranting to Stan, "Well, Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"into!"
* SameLanguageDub: Because this film was produced in France, many of the supporting actors are speaking French, with their voices dubbed into English.
* TheBadGuyWins: Well,
* SameLanguageDub: Because this film was produced in France, many of the supporting actors are speaking French, with their voices dubbed into English.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: When the London Mayor called Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel. And Oliver Hardy says "Uh, No no! I am Oliver Hardy!"
* TheBadGuyWins: Well, He took all of the Stan and Ollie's belongings (because they failed to pay their tax). Resulted in Oliver ranting to Stan, "Well, Here's another nice messyou've you've gotten me into!"
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In the USA, It is retitled ''Utopia''.into!"
* TheBadGuyWins: Well, He took all of the Stan and Ollie's belongings (because they failed to pay their tax). Resulted in Oliver ranting to Stan, "Well, Here's another nice mess
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''Robinson Crusoeland'' is a 1951 British comedy movie and is the final movie starring Creator/LaurelAndHardy. As the boys set sail to a deserted island.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Well, He took all of the Stan and Ollie's belongings (because they failed to pay their tax). Resulted in Oliver ranting to Stan, "Well, Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In the USA, It is retitled ''Utopia''.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Well, He took all of the Stan and Ollie's belongings (because they failed to pay their tax). Resulted in Oliver ranting to Stan, "Well, Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In the USA, It is retitled ''Utopia''.
