Goofs

When Laurel & Hardy do their train station sketch, a "Go by Rail" advertisement is prominent. At the end, when they perform the sketch in Ireland, it is replaced with a "Visit Ireland" advertisement. In at least one picture, the "Go by Rail" advertisement is back.

At the beginning, Stan and Ollie are playing to very small audiences in what look like run down theaters. They actually played to packed houses in major cities.

The epilogue says Laurel & Hardy returned to America after the 1953 tour of Ireland and never worked together again. Their last stage appearance was in England in May 1954. Their only American television appearance was in December 1954. Their final public appearance together was a filmed segment for British television in 1955.

Zenobia (1939) never led to a rift between Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Addressing stories of his split with Ollie, Stan told reporters that he felt the story started when Babe appeared in "the elephant film" without him. In 1940 Stan stated that his contract ran out three months before Ollie's. "The studio used Ollie during those 90 days, and the impression got round that we'd split. As soon as the Roach contract set-up was liquidated, we're united and we intend to remain a team and good friends."

In 1953, phone calls from the U.K. to the U.S. were astronomically expensive and involved multiple international operators. Even the very wealthy communicated across the Atlantic by telegram.

Bernard Delfont refers to a cinema showing an old Laurel & Hardy film as a 'rerun', an Americanism. In Britain, showing old material again is called a 'repeat'.

When their wives arrive at the Savoy, their car pulls up to the front of the hotel facing the wrong direction. In the movie, the car arrives with the curb on the left. In real life, Savoy Court is the only named street in the UK where people drive on the right instead of the left.

Stan Laurel's wife, Ida Kitaeva, says St. Petersburg is a nice place to visit. St. Petersburg was called Leningrad in the 1950s. Kitaeva was born in Chita, Russia in 1899, and grew up in Saint Petersburg, which was renamed Petrograd in 1914, then Leningrad in 1924. It was renamed Saint Petersburg in 1991.

The front desk girl at the hotel in London is South Asian. Scholars estimate that about 8,000 South Asians lived in the UK before the large-scale migration of the 1950s-70s. They usually were descended from people who had been servants or sailors on British ships, and they tended to live in port cities, like London.

When entering the theater in Glasgow, a man of Arab decent is the ticket taker. A small Lebanese community existed in the U.K. before the large-scale migrations of the 1950s-70s.

When Stan leaves the phone booth, a deep blue Standard Ten drives by. This car was introduced in 1954, but the film is set in 1953. However, per IMDB Guidelines, this does not constitute a Goof it is "of the period": "We allow a good deal of leeway with antique equipment and machinery as long as it is "of the period" - a 1943 variant of a military airplane in a movie set in 1942, for instance, will not qualify as a goof. ... always bear in mind that it's entertainment not documentary."

Near the beginning, Stan leaves a red telephone box opposite the theatre in Newcastle after ringing his wife back in Hollywood. When he brushes against the door frame, it flexes slightly, revealing that it's a wooden prop. Real telephone boxes were made of iron.

The Savoy Hotel in London flies a "Maple Leaf" Canadian flag, which was adopted in 1965.

When Oliver Hardy (in England) chats with his wife (in America) on the telephone, they use normal voices. In 1953, transatlantic sound quality was so poor that both of them would have had to shout.

When Stan inserts money into a UK phone box, it makes beep-beep-beep of an STD phone. In the 1950s, it would have been a Push Button A phone, which did not beep.

The American flag shown at the Savoy in 1953 is a 50-star flag, adopted in 1960. Several people at the Dublin welcome are waving 50-star flags.

The film never mentions that Ollie made The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) with John Wayne before reuniting with Stan to make Utopia (1951), their final film.

When Stan and Ollie arrive in London, their train crosses the Thames River with the Tower Bridge close by in the background. There is no railway bridge near the Tower Bridge that would make that perspective possible. The only railway bridge across that part of the Thames would show London Bridge in that perspective.

In an early shot, a background image of the Hal Roach Studios is actually the Culver Studios, built by Thomas H. Ince and later owned by David O. Selznick. The Culver Studios has a colonial-style building and a white façade with grand columns. Many available photos of the Roach Studios show a much different architectural style.

When Laurel & Hardy arrive in Newcastle, their taxi has its 'For Hire' flag in the upright position. With passengers on-board, the flag should be down.