Liberty (1929 film)


Liberty is an American silent one-reeler film, directed by Leo McCarey starring comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on January 26, 1929.

Plot

Stan and Ollie are prison escapees. Running down the road with a police officer firing a shotgun at them. They meet up with two accomplices in a car and In their haste to change into street clothes, they wind up wearing each other's pants. Tossing their prison uniforms out the window they attract the attention of a motorcycle police officer, but get out of the car without him seeing. They go looking for places to swap pants. The alley where a cop is grabbing a smoke and a lady screams and they are off again. Behind some crates on an elevator with a cop right there and they are off again. Ducking into a cab they lose the cop and hide behind a seafood shop and a crab accidentally finds its way into Stan's trousers, causing him problems with nipping. Not paying mind where they are going, Ollie topples a record player outside a music shop as records cover the sidewalk, the owner is not amused. A cop chases them to a construction site, where they escape by riding an elevator to the top floor of an unfinished building. Atop the girders, 20 stories in the air, they finally switch trousers, contend with a crab, and manage to nearly fall to their death a few dozen times.

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