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Production info

A Terrible Tragedy
USA, 1916
Oliver Hardy, Billy Bowers, Jerold T. Hevener
Directed by Jerold T. Hevener

Reporter Emile Scribbler discovers a gang of subversives, but they capture him and imprison him in a box. Later when some of the gang members come to retrieve the box they go to the wrong address and steal a professor's Egyptian mummy.
Early Oliver Hardy film, here 24 years old, who was not to team up with Stan Laurel until 1927.

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