Short film that flopped with Laurel in a foreign region (9)
I believe the answer is:
turkestan
'region' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'short film that flopped with laurel in a foreign' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'film' could be 'kes' (I've seen this before) and 'kes' is found in the answer.
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for turkestan that I've seen before include "Area of central Asia" , "Central Asian region" , "part of Asia" .)