Detained

Detained (1924)

When a convict forcibly changes places with our hero Stan, he's taken to the pokey in the prisoner's place. Run-ins with pies, pickaxes, and the electric chair follow. Will the warden find Stan innocent or presume him guilty?

Date of release
1924-10-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (5)
Runtime
18m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Scott Pembroke

Casting

Interesting facts

Detained is a 1924 American silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel. In 2018, the Frisian Film Archive in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, was able to recover and restore a specific scene deemed lost. In "The Hanging Scene", Stan Laurel gets an extreme extended neck when he accidentally falls head first into the gallows, while trying to escape the prison. In 2017, a Dutch employee found the footage in their archive and after restoration the entire movie including the scene was uploaded to YouTube. The scene was to be shown at the Bristol Slapstick Festival in January 2018.

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