Air Raid Wardens (1943)

The ‘boys,’ by now their characters also going by the names Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, after failing in their many businesses ventures (including their old favorite, fertilizer salesmen,) decide to join up. They are rejected by every single branch of the military, but locally are given a chance to help the war effort by becoming air raid wardens.

Obviously, they will fail at that too; but when real German spies are discovered, they manage to save the day.

Stan and Ollie are giving it their all but, post their classic Hal Roach work, their characters no longer quite fit in the modern, but still not quite real, WW II world, (there is some fourth wall-breaking and some surreal, animated bits); it's odd seeing other adult actors much younger than they calling them 'boys,' and it’s not long before their characters are overly sentimentalized, (the single worst aspect of this movie,) despite of which they were still able to get a few genuine laughs out of me.

It’s not just the two who are greying at the temples; also on hand are Edgar Kennedy, Donald Meek, and a decrepit Model T they find at a junk yard.