Continuing with our festival of obscure Laurel and Hardy film clips: Our next installment is a little less than three minutes of a British Pathé newsreel from 1947. The first part is an interview with Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor. Then comes a brief chat with Stan and Ollie, who were then about to begin touring the British Isles with what turned out to be a highly successful stage show.
You'll hear Hardy talk about an upcoming film version of Robin Hood that, alas, was never made. The storyline would have cast Oliver as Friar Hardy and Stan as Little John Laurel, the two main Merry Men of Robin Hood's band. It is unknown why the project never made it to the business side of a camera. Instead, they wound up making no movies for several years, which was our loss. Here's the newsreel…