Laurel and Hardy: The pants thing
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The thing with the pants |
| Original title | Liberty |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 20 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leo McCarey |
| script |
Leo McCarey H. M. Walker ( subtitles ) |
| production | Hal Roach |
| camera | George Stevens |
| cut |
Richard Currier William H. Terhune |
| occupation | |
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The thing with the pants (original title: Liberty ) is an American silent film by Laurel & Hardy from 1929. The film was one of their last silent films and celebrated its premiere on January 26, 1929.
action
Stan and Ollie, just escaped from prison, are on the run from the police. You are already expected by accomplices. In their car they swap their prison clothes for their usual suits, mixing up their trousers. When the police almost caught up with them, they leave the car and continue on foot. Again and again Stan and Ollie fail to exchange their pants because they are being watched suspiciously by a policeman or by passers-by. The situation - Stan and Ollie hiding behind boxes or in a car with their pants down - is obviously thoroughly misunderstood. During an attempt in the backyard of a fish shop, a crab got into Stan's pants, which from then on kept pinching him. The resulting twitching movements of Stan lead to the destruction of dozens of records in front of James Finlayson's music store.
Eventually they get to the construction site of a skyscraper and, against their will, take a lift to the highest point of the scaffolding. On the way up, I finally manage to swap pants. From then on, Ollie is pinched by cancer. Before they can go back, the lift disappears again. To get down, Stan and Ollie try to reach a ladder on the other side of the construction. On the way there, there is always a danger of falling into the depths. Not only is the cancer in Ollie's pants troubling them, sometimes unstable posts and boards also cause danger. To make matters worse, after some dizzying balancing acts, the ladder falls down. In the end, Stan and Ollie reach the elevator unharmed and get back to the safe floor. The policeman lurking there is pressed together by the elevator and is only half as tall as before.
Reviews
“This unusual and very successful foray into the domain of Harold Lloyd , the facade climber comedy thriller, contains some of the funniest Laurel & Hardy moments,” said William K. Everson in Laurel and Hardy and their films . Also prism praised the film: "In this screaming comical silent film Laurel and Hardy show their incredible skills in varying and Ausreizen of gags to the limit of what is possible."
Web links
- Liberty in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ William K. Everson: Laurel and Hardy and their films. Citadel Movie Books , Ed. Joe Hembus. Goldmann, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-442-10204-9 , pp. 73-75.
- ↑ See prisma.de