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Habeas Corpus is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Leo McCarey released in USA on 1 december 1928 with Stan Laurel
Habeas Corpus (1928)
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Add to a movie listHabeas Corpus is a 1928 short comedy silent film starring Laurel and Hardy as grave-robbers hired by a mad scientist. It was shot in July 1928 and released by M-G-M on December 1. Although technically a silent film — having intertitles and no synchronized dialogue — it was the inaugural Roach film released with a synchronized music and sounds effects track for theatres wired for sound. The Victor sound discs were long thought lost until a lone set surfaced in the 1990s and was reunited with the film elements.
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« Professor Padilla expected to startle the medical world with his new theory… »Actors
Stan Laurel
(Stan)
Oliver Hardy
(Ollie)
Richard Carle
(Professor)
Charles A. Bachman
(2nd Policeman (uncredited))
Charley Rogers
(Ledoux - the Butler (as Charlie Rogers))
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