Laurel and Hardy - Liberty (1929) - Filming Locations

Laurel and Hardy have just escaped from prison, and find themselves on the streets of downtown Culver City, California next to the Adams Hotel (see Hunter - Scrap Metal Quick Preview video #4 for a look at the Adams Hotel nearly 60 years later). A cop on the beat spots Laurel and Hardy, immediately becomes suspicious and follows them down Culver City's Main Street and ultimately to a skyscraper under construction.

The final scene takes place high above the streets of downtown Los Angeles and as you'll see in this Quick Preview then and now video of the movie locations, several of the buildings seen in the movie in 1929 are still here today.

Where exactly did Laurel and Hardy film those skyscraper scenes in Liberty? They were filmed on the roof of 939 South Broadway on a phony "skyscraper under construction" set. The nearby building that we see in this sequence is 1023 South Broadway (built in 1925) in downtown Los Angeles.

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