The Live Ghost
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| The Live Ghost | |
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| Directed by | Charles Rogers |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Starring | Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy |
| Release date(s) | 1934 |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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The Live Ghost is a 1934 short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by Charles Rogers and produced by Hal Roach.
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[edit] Plot
A tough sea captain persuades fish market workers Laurel and Hardy to shanghai a crew for him at the local bar, at a dollar a head. There is initial success, but Stan and Ollie themselves get shanghaied, and the crew vow revenge. The captain warns no one to ever say the word 'ghost' to him again, or he'll twist their head round, so that when they're looking north, they'll actually be looking south. Stan and Ollie never go ashore as the captain says nothing will happen to them while they are on his ship. Members of the crew plan to sneak back secretly to fix them at another bar, while the captain chats up a dockside floozie. A drunken member of the crew sneaks out for a drink, and when returning falls into a tub of whitewash. After various complications, the boys think they've shot dead the drunken sailor and throw him overboard in a sack; the sailor makes his way back to the ship and terrifies the boys, thinking he is a ghost. They tell the captain this, and he carries out his promise of twisting heads after they say the word ghost.
