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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1677

Twins

192520 minUnited States

Synopsis

Stan accepts an invitation to stay at his identical brother's home while the brother travels on business. A suspicious wife mistakes the visitor for her husband, setting off a quarrel that also involves Stan's fiancée.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 22:24
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Scott Pembroke / Joe Rock · Public domain

Cast

Stan Laurel

DirectorsScott Pembroke Joe Rock

Behind the scenes

Stan Laurel plays both brothers. The mistaken-identity premise gives him two contrasting roles years before the related comic device in Laurel and Hardy's Our Relations.

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Stan Laurel — Photo by Stax · Public domain

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