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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1629

Detained

192420 minUnited States

Synopsis

An escaped convict exchanges clothes with Stan, who is promptly mistaken for a prisoner. Inside the jail, his attempts to cope with guards, meals and escape routes produce increasingly improbable consequences.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 17:30
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Scott Pembroke / Joe Rock · Public domain

This copy runs shorter than the reference runtime. Editing and playback speed can differ between editions.

Cast

Stan Laurel

DirectorsScott Pembroke Joe Rock

Behind the scenes

A missing gallows gag was recovered in a Dutch archive in 2017 and restored the following year. Different surviving editions can therefore vary in their comic sequences.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 22, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Stan Laurel — Photo by Stax · Public domain

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