The Live Ghost finds Stan and Ollie back in the days of the Barbary Coast where having a crew shanghaied was a matter of course. But gruff captain Walter Long is having an especially hard time because of the rumors his ship is haunted. He gets Stan and Ollie to help him sucker a crew into being shanghaied and for good measure, shanghais the two of them.
That I often wondered about. Would you really want to sail on a clipper ship with Laurel and Hardy?
At this point Stan and Ollie get some real competition from actor Arthur Houseman whose portrayal of a drunken sailor almost steals this short subject from the stars. Stan in his usual fashion finds a pistol and discharges it and he thinks he's killed Houseman.
Now he and Ollie contrive to get rid of the body, but in the meantime Houseman has slipped in a vat of whitewash and when he reemerges from the briny deep, he's white and shiny. The predictable results do follow.
Stan and Ollie will please their legion of fans. But I wonder what they thought when they Houseman's performance nearly stealing the film from them. Stan especially put on a little extra shtick in the end.
That I often wondered about. Would you really want to sail on a clipper ship with Laurel and Hardy?
At this point Stan and Ollie get some real competition from actor Arthur Houseman whose portrayal of a drunken sailor almost steals this short subject from the stars. Stan in his usual fashion finds a pistol and discharges it and he thinks he's killed Houseman.
Now he and Ollie contrive to get rid of the body, but in the meantime Houseman has slipped in a vat of whitewash and when he reemerges from the briny deep, he's white and shiny. The predictable results do follow.
Stan and Ollie will please their legion of fans. But I wonder what they thought when they Houseman's performance nearly stealing the film from them. Stan especially put on a little extra shtick in the end.