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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], Jean Harlow, Jack Hill
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / From a screen story by Leo McCarey. Cinematography by George Stevens. Film editors, Richard Currier (Richard C. Currier) + [William 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: 25 April 2009.
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.
Home video: DVD.
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