Atoll K (Utopia), 1951 starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

Atoll K is a 1951 Franco-Italian co-production film—also known as Robinson Crusoeland in the United Kingdom and Utopia in the United States – which stars the comedy team Laurel and Hardy in their final screen appearance. The film co-star’s French singer/actress Suzy Delair and was directed by Léo Joannon, with uncredited co-direction by blacklisted American director John Berry.

The production of Atoll K was plagued with many problems that caused the making of the film to run nine months beyond its projected schedule of twelve weeks. Ida Laurel, Stan Laurel’s widow, told biographer John McCabe, “I’m hardly likely to forget the date we left for France and the date we returned – April 1, 1950, and April 1, 1951. But there was no April Fooling about that terrible year. That bloody picture was supposed to take twelve weeks to make, and it took twelve months.”