This Laurel and Hardy silent film has a very, very slim plot--with almost the entire film taking place at a cemetery. The film begins with a truly balmy professor paying Stan and Ollie to do a bit of grave robbing (an odd plot idea, I know). So the greedy boys head to the grave yard and spend most of the film being scared out of their wits over a drunk who has gotten wrapped up in a sheet. While this is all very contrived, the worst part of this is that it took Stan and Ollie almost half the film to figure a way into the cemetery. Some of this was very funny (such as when Ollie finally tried climbing the wall), but most of it was just tedious and overplayed. While this is far from funny and lacking the number of laughs of most of their shorts, the film is still worth a peek because even when sub-par, the team can still be very funny.
Review of Habeas Corpus
