Habeas Corpus (1928)

Name: Habeas Corpus
Genre: Short, Comedy
Released: 1928-12-01
Duration: 20 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Carle, Charley Rogers

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy

Loony scientist (Carle) hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.

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Stan Laurel

Stan
Oliver Hardy

Ollie
Richard Carle

Professor Padilla
Charley Rogers

Ledoux - the Butler

(as Charlie Rogers)

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1 November 2010 | Bob Pr.

| Early vintage Laurel & Hardy

I don't understand the occasional low ratings I've read by viewers of this great '20s silent film.

It's early vintage Laurel & Hardy with a very good demonstration of most aspects of their particular brand of physical humor and emotional reactions to each other and their situations.

Done in 1928 in the Hal Roach studio, a silent film historian said it's the beginning, in a sense--a preview, or first chapter, of what was to become a great series of longer comedy escapades.

One can only downgrade this film by judging it against Laurel & Hardy's other, later, longer and more fully developed films.

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Genres

Short | Comedy

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Release Date:

1 December 1928

Language

English

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Culver City, California, USA

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