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26 January 1929 (USA)
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Two escaped convicts (Laurel & Hardy) change clothes in the getaway car, but wind up wearing each other's pants...
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a magnificent example of silent comedy
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(Credited cast) | Stan Laurel | ... | Stan |
 | Oliver Hardy | ... | Ollie |
 | Tom Kennedy | ... | Construction worker (scenes deleted) |
| Sam Lufkin | ... | Getaway Driver |
| James Finlayson | ... | Store keeper |
| Jack Hill | ... | Officer |
| Harry Bernard | ... | Worker at Sea Food dealer |
 | Jean Harlow | ... | Woman in cab (as Harlean Carpenter) |
| Ed Brandenburg | ... | Cab driver |
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Criminals at Large
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20 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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In an attempt to assure Stan Laurel that the safety platforms erected around the girder set were safe, Oliver Hardy leapt down from the wooden girders onto one. Unfortunately, they weren't safe. Hardy crashed right through the safety platform, fortunately falling only 20 feet into a safety net erected as a backup.
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Edited into Laurel und Hardy auf der Jagd nach dem Mammon (1973)
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"Liberty" was one of Laurel and Hardy's last silent films, and clearly one of their best. Only two years into their long screen partnership, this talented duo had mastered silent comedy art by 1929, and, with this film, rendered a beautifully constructed, excellently paced, skillfully photographed short, packed throughout with incident and wit. Much credit should go to director Leo McCarey (who would later helm classics like "Duck Soup" and "Going My Way") and cameraman George Stevens (who would later direct "Woman of the Year", "Shane", and "Giant"). Part of the brilliance of this film is in the presentation of it's climax, atop an unfinished skyscraper. Yes, Laurel and Hardy were really scrambling around 10 stories over the streets of Culver City, California; but they were doing so on a wooden mock-up assembled on the roof of an already existing structure.