Patricia Ellis

A good-hearted slum kid, who steals small things to fit in with the crowd, lives a hard-knocks life at reform school, prison, and once he is free.

After WWI ends, Laurel never learns the war is over. Reunited with Hardy back home, he faces comic trials as he adapts to modern life.

The film draws from a jolting real-life incident: the secret snapping and subsequent publication of a forbidden photograph showing the execution of a convicted murderess.