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Sailors, Beware!

192725 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

A taxi driver follows two fare-dodgers aboard a ship and is forced to work his passage. One passenger's disguise as a baby conceals a criminal partner whose behaviour soon becomes difficult to explain.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
25:07
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 · Fred Guiol · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsFred GuiolHal Yates

Historical context

Laurel leads the short while Hardy appears as the purser who must supervise him. The ship confines the mistaken identities and workplace disputes to an increasingly troublesome voyage.

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