Could you please give us a link to the duplicate?

Yes sorry: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/379593-a-free-ride is the duplicate of https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/299568-a-free-ride

379593 Should be removed.

These entries aren't duplicates.

They are linked to 2 different IMDB Id : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329102/ for the first and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218277/ for the second.

Interesting. Thanks for correcting me. I'm not 100% convinced the 1925 film actually exists (it's not on Slim Summerville's wiki page) because I can't find any actual information on it but someone on Letterboxd claims to have seen it so who knows.

I only found a few references.

Les petits maîtres du burlesque américain, 1902-1929 lists it in the filmography of Slim Summerville:

Blue Bird Comedies-Universal :
16.11 – A Free Ride – I : Arthur Lake

It's mentioned a couple of times in the "Comedy Releases" section of Motion Picture News:

Feature Star Distributed by Lenght Reviewed
Free Ride, A............Arthur Lake.........Universal...........1 reel............

And the Universal Weekly of December 12, 1925 has a synopsis:

“A FREE RIDE” 
One-Reel Bluebird Comedy 
Featuring ARTHUR LAKE
 ARTHUR and Eddie make a bluff at buying a car and get the auto salesman to take their girls for a ride, pretending to the girls that he is a hired chauffeur. He resents being treated as a hired hand and takes them for a bumpy ride terminating far in the country where he runs out of gas and asks them to wait. They take a walk in the mountains and he goes away without them. They walk to the house of the county judge who is on the lookout for suspected elopers and has agreed to hold them for identification. They ask to use the phone and he locks them all in the room with barred windows. The salesman is arrested for speeding and is thrown into the same room. During the night the salesman wakes them every few minutes to make them a new and better proposition. In the morning the judge says, “You were all arrested by mistake. The laugh’s on me.”

Wow, great research. That synopsis adds a lot of value. Thanks Banana!