A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Stan Laurel [Little Goofy], Oliver Hardy [Big Goofy], Jimmie Finlayson (James Finlayson) [Governor Browne Van Dyke], S.J. “Tiny” Sanford (Stanley Sanford) [a prison guard], Ellinor Vanderveer [Countess de Cognac], Otto Fries [Lecoque], Bob O’Connor [Voitrex], Eugene Pallette [the dinner host], Evelyn Burns [a party guest], Rosemary Theby [a dinner guest], F.F. Guenste [the butler], Edgar Dearing [a policeman], Budd Fine [a policeman], Alfred Fisher [a policeman], Frank Brownlee [the prison warden], Charlie Hall [a convict], Jack Herrick [a convict], Hayes E. Robertson [the well-dressed customer], Dorothy Coburn [a flapper], William Gillespie

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Produced by Hal Roach. [?] From a screen story by Leo McCarey? Grip, E. Truman Joiner. Cinematography by George Stevens. Film editor, Richard C. Currier. Intertitles written by H.M. Walker. Presented by Hal Roach. / © 21 September 1927 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP24437]. Released 8 October 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Color tinted. / The production was shot in June 1927. Some sequences were originally color-tinted. / Silent film.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Prisons: Convicts, Escapes, Prisoners

Listing updated: 27 April 2025.

References: Film credits : Kerr-Silent pp. 326, 334; Lahue-World p. 139; Skretvedt-Magic pp. 95, 96, 97-98, 99, 100, 115 : ClasIm-301 p. 14 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.