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From Hand to Mouth (1919)
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28 December 1919 (USA) morePlot:
A penniless young man tries to save an heiress from kidnappers and help her secure her inheritance. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
One of Harold Lloyd's best two-reelers... moreCast
(Credited cast)| Harold Lloyd | ... | The Boy | |
| Mildred Davis | ... | The Girl | |
| Peggy Cartwright | ... | The Waif (as Peggy Courtwright) | |
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| 'Snub' Pollard | ... | The Kidnapper (as Harry Pollard) | |
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From Hand To Mouth is one of Harold Lloyd's best short comedies. The character that Harold plays in From Hand To Mouth is of course the boy with the glasses, however, he is rather Chaplinesque in scenes such as Harold looking through the café window and showing affection towards a waif played by Peggy Cartwright. The film also marks the debut of Mildred Davis in a Lloyd film. Four years later after Harold and Mildred made several great comedies together, they got hapilly married. Harold's first important leading lady, Bebe Daniels, had now left Lloyd to join Cecil B. DeMille. From Hand To Mouth was Harold's third two-reel comedy and one of his most successful. Harry Snub' Pollard again provides a great deal of laughs as he always did in the early Lloyd comedies. In From Hand To Mouth, Snub' plays a kidnapper who with his gang kidnaps Mildred and Harold must somehow save her. However, Harold in fact joins up with the gang before finally rescuing Mildred. Mildred Davis was great as Harold's leading lady in the film and so she stayed with Harold for the rest of her life. In From Hand To Mouth, Harold also tries to shake off his influence of Charles Chaplin and so he creates some great comic routines including chase sequences and messing around with policemen. One of the best scenes in the film is where Harold first gets tricked by bending over to pick up a wallet on the sidewalk and a kid drags it away with a string. Then on another street, Harold notices another wallet on the sidewalk but does not pick it up so not to be embarrassed. As he glances around the corner to see if there is anyone mischievous there, another fellow comes and picks up the wallet, which has heaps of money in it. Then in a brilliant tracking shot, Harold follows the fellow who picked up the wallet so that Harold can have it for it is he who found it. This sequence inspired Buster Keaton's 1924 comedy Sherlock Jr. In one scene in Sherlock Jr. Keaton follows his nemesis in the same style as Lloyd did in From Hand To Mouth.
From Hand To Mouth is one of Harold Lloyd's best films and deserves an 8 out of 10.