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Laurel And Hardy - The Live Ghost / Habeas Corpus / Dirty Work [VHS] [1934]
 
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Laurel And Hardy - The Live Ghost / Habeas Corpus / Dirty Work [VHS] [1934]

VHS ~ Stan Laurel
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  • Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sam Adams, Lucien Littlefield
  • Directors: Lloyd French
  • Writers: H.M. Walker
  • Producers: Hal Roach
  • Format: Black & White, Digital Sound, HiFi Sound, PAL
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Vision Video Ltd.
  • VHS Release Date: 6 April 1998
  • Run Time: 58 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00004R71Z
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,823 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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    #25 in  Video > Classic Films > Actors > Laurel & Hardy
    #47 in  Video > Classic Films > Comedy > 1930s

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Featuring 'The Live Ghost', 'Habeas Corpus' and 'Dirty Work' which finds Stan and Ollie employed as chimney sweeps.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Ghosts and Mad Professors, 14 April 2003
By J. Skade "joeskade" (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This is a fine collection of L&H shorts which, whilst not comtaining any undisputed classics, shows off a number of aspects of their work in a very favourable light. It's funny too.
'TheLive Ghost' and 'Habeous Corpus' are both stories containing supposed spooks, whilst 'Habeous Corpus' shares with 'Dirty Work' a mad professor. Beyond these links, the films are very different.
'The Live Ghost' is a typical L&H potboiler with the amoral innocents helping a ship's captain to shanghai a crew, only to be shanghai'd themselves. The usual confusion ensues, winding up with our heroes' heads turned a full 180 degrees in a memorable closing image.
'Habeous Corpus' is a silent but it doesn't let the side down. From the moment Stan and Ollie appear (their two hands at the door knocker in a lovely filmic touch) the film abounds with sweet moments - the 'wet paint' sequence with Hardy's slow dawning realisation of what has happened, and one of their better attempts to scale a wall. The 'plot' is full of holes and the film ends a little too suddenly but it is certainly worth watching (and doesn't the butler remind you of the pianist in Sparks?).
'Dirty Work' is the best of the three featuring a perfect L&H situation with the gormless two as chimney sweeps. In sequences of beautifully choreographed insanity they proceed to wreak havoc on the home of the mad professor (he too has a butler who has the best line in the film - 'Somewhere an electric chair is waiting'). The professor himself appears to exist only to furnish the final marvellous visual gag.But then, why not?
Not the best of L&H but a good buy nonetheless.
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