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Liberty
Comedy, Silent
Stan and Ollie, fugitives from prison, find themselves pursued by a police officer armed with a shotgun. Their escape leads them to encounter two accomplices in a car, where they hurriedly swap their prison attire for street clothes, accidentally exchanging trousers in the process.
Movie Info
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Written by: Leo McCarey, H.M. Walker
Produced by: Hal Roach
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Tom Kennedy, Sam Lufkin, James Finlayson, Jack Hill, Harry Bernard, Jean Harlow, Ed Brandenburg
Cinematography: George Stevens
Edited by: Richard C. Currier
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date: January 26, 1929
Running time: 18 minutes
Country: United States
Languages: Synchronized Sound, English (Intertitles)
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