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The Live Ghost is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Buddy Rogers released in USA on 8 december 1934 with Stan Laurel
The Live Ghost (1934)
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Add to a movie listThe Live Ghost is a 1934 American short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by Charles Rogers and produced by Hal Roach.
A copy of this film is held by the Library of Congress.
Synopsis
A gruff sea captain (Walter Long) enlists fish-shop employees Laurel and Hardy to help in shanghaiing men to be a crew for his next voyage. They succeed in doing so by a stunt that gets each man chasing after them. But they accidentally clobber the captain as well, provoking him into shanghaiing them as well aboard what is rumored to be a "ghost ship" (which was why Captain Long was unable to get men to voluntarily enlist). He is so angry at this rumor that he makes a dire threat against the next man that tells him that he sails a "ghost ship".Actors
Stan Laurel
(Stan)
Oliver Hardy
(Ollie)
Walter Long
(Captain)
Mae Busch
(Maisie the Vamp, Blonde Floozy)
Arthur Housman
(Drunken sailor)
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, 20minutesDirected by Charley Rogers, Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Walter Long, Baldwin Cooke, Sam Lufkin
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In a packed courtroom, Butch Long (Walter Long) vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has helped to send him to prison for the rest of his life, threatening to "break off their legs and wrap 'em around their necks!" after Laurel makes a suggestion to the judge (Harry Dunkinson), "Aren't you going to hang him?" Later, in the car, Ollie repeats this question sarcastically, since he saw Long's reaction just after Stan said it; he then asks Stan, "Couldn't you see that he was annoyed?" (an understatement to be sure!)
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Themes Buddy films
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Rating75%
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, 19minutesDirected by Charley Rogers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
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Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Mae Busch, Baldwin Cooke, James C. Morton
Rating74%
Laurel and Hardy establish an electrical goods store next door to Charlie Hall's grocery store. Hall, still sulking and suspicious from their previous encounter with the liquor-spiked well-water in Them Thar Hills, mistakenly thinks that Hardy is making advances towards his wife (Mae Busch), and destroys a few items in Stan and Ollie's shop. Stan and Ollie leave their shop, without closing their door, to wreak havoc in Hall's grocery; while they are there, a shoplifter (Bobby Dunn) removes items from their store, taking more and more as their confrontations with Hall escalate (at first he merely carries the items out by hand a few at a time, but then, having come and gone unhindered several times, boldly returns with a wheelbarrow). A policeman eventually comes and straightens out the brouhaha, but when Laurel and Hardy return to their store, there's nothing left: the shoplifter has returned a final time with a huge moving-van, and taken everything away.
The Bohemian Girl (1936)
, 1h11Directed by James W. Horne, Charley Rogers, Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas, Buddy films, Operetta films
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Rating65%
Laurel and Hardy are a hen-pecked pair of Gypsies in 18th-century Austria. When Oliver is out pickpocketing, fortune-telling or attending his zither lessons, his wife (Mae Busch), has an affair with Devilshoof (Antonio Moreno). A cruel nobleman, Count Arnheim, persecutes the Gypsies, who are forced to flee, but Devilshoof, in revenge for having been lashed by the count, kidnaps his daughter, Arline (Darla Hood), and Mrs. Hardy fools Hardy into thinking she is their daughter. She soon elopes with Devilshoof, and leaves Hardy holding the baby.
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, 1h17Directed by Charley Rogers, Gus Meins, Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Musical films, Films about toys, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Bletcher, Charlotte Henry, Baldwin Cooke, Jean Darling
Rating70%
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, 1h30Directed by Charley Rogers, Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd, James Finlayson, Henry Armetta, James C. Morton
Rating70%
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Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch
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Themes Buddy films
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Rating63%
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