The Live Ghost

A gruff sea captain, who absolutely detests the word ghost, is having trouble manning his ship because of the rumor its...well...haunted. He inveigles Stanley and Oliver into helping him shanghai a crew from the sailors at a dockside bar. The comic duo accomplish this by using one of the funniest devices ever put into a movie, and of course it all goes wrong. Once aboard, the captain warns them that whoever says the word ghost will get his head twisted from north to south. After much time at sea and many port stops later, one of the drunken sailors falls into a trough of whitewash, terrorizing Stanley and Oliver into blurting out ghost in front of the enraged captain, which brings about the storys Laurel and Hardy trademark another fine mess ending.