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Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel.
Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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Liberty
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Leo McCarey + [Lloyd French and James W. Horne]
Cast: Stan Laurel [an escapee], Oliver Hardy [an escapee], James Finlayson [the music store owner], Tom Kennedy [a prison guard], Sam Lufkin [the getaway driver], Jack Hill [a policeman], Harry Bernard [a worker at the seafood vendor], Ed Brandenburg [the taxi driver], Harlean Carpenter (Jean Harlow) [the woman in the taxi]
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Produced by Hal Roach. From a screen story by Leo McCarey. Set decoration by Theodore Driscoll. Property master, Morrie Lightfoot (Morey Lightfoot). Grip, E. Truman Joiner. Special effects supervision by Thomas Benton Roberts. Assistant director, Lloyd French. Cinematography by George Stevens. Camera operator, Jack Roach. Camera assistant, E.V. White. Film editors, Richard Currier (Richard C. Currier) + [William H. Terhune]. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. Presented by Hal Roach. / © 28 January 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP57]. Released 26 January 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot 1-17 October 1928, with retakes shot on 26 October (directed by French) and on 13-19 November 1928 (directed by Horne). Some exteriors shot on-location in Culver City, California. The film was rereleased by Film Classics, Incorporated. Some footage appears to have survived only as a 16mm reduction print. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.
Comedy.
Synopsis: The boys escape from prison and keep trying to find a place just to exchange their pants. Eventually they wind up on the top of a high-rise building construction site.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Alleys - Awnings - Back roads - Buildings - Chases - Construction sites - Crabs - Electrical switches - Elevators - Escaped convicts - Escaped prisoners - Escapes - Fear - Fish - Flags: American - Fugitives - General John J. Pershing - George Washington - Girders - Heights - High-rise buildings - Ladders - Lost shoes - Marches - Midgets - Motorcycle cops - Motorcycles - Office buildings - Phonograph records - Phonographs - Police: Policemen - Presidents: USA: Abraham Lincoln - Prison guards - Prison uniforms - Rope - Signage - Skylines - Soldiers - Statue of Liberty - Street scenes - Synchronized sound film - Taxi cabs - Tobacco: Cigarettes - Trams - Tram tracks - Transportation: Automobiles, Trucks - USA: California: Culver City, Los Angeles - Weapons: Guns, Rifles - Woods - Workmen
Listing updated: 22 December 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Everson-American p. 271, 310d; Kerr-Silent p. 335; Shipman-Cinema p. 104; Skretvedt-Magic pp. 136-138, 139, 140, 143, 442 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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