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3 September 1922 (USA)
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Where Laughter Reigns and Joy Pours! more
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Always the mama's boy, or in this case a grandma's boy, Sonny joins a posse after a tramp accused of robbery and murder...
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charming, snappy, and modern
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Harold Lloyd | ... | Grandma's Boy | |
| Mildred Davis | ... | His Girl | |
| Anna Townsend | ... | His Grandma | |
| Charles Stevenson | ... | His Rival / Union General | |
| Dick Sutherland | ... | The Rolling Stone | |
| Noah Young | ... | Sheriff of Dabney County |
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USA:60 min (21.5 fps) | USA:56 min (2002 release)
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1.33 : 1 more
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UK:U |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
USA:TV-G (TV rating) |
Australia:G |
Portugal:17 (director's cut)
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Originally intended as a serious movie, this film was altered by Harold Lloyd into a comedy by adding the gag scenes later on.
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Continuity: Right after Harold has been deputized, he enters the barn and lets off a shotgun blast which stirs up a flock of chickens. In the long shot, the chickens are flying around Harold and he still holds the rifle; in the next shot, a medium shot, his hands are empty; in the following shot, which is another long shot, he's once again holding the rifle.
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Referenced in The Big Show (1923)
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You Are the Ideal of My Dreams
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Another fun Lloyd movie, set in the standard small, rural town of silent movies. (I always wonder how close those were to reality.) Lloyd is endearing as a timid boy, and displays some fine acting as well as comic ability. Anna Townsend as Lloyd's grandma is refreshingly both tough and likeable, a bonus for the modern female viewer. Mildred Davis (Lloyd's future wife) doesn't have a huge part, but plays it well. (Though I wonder about the childlike clothes she wears; would anyone over 13 really have sported a massive hair bow in 1922?) The movie seems to have had great influence: the civil-war sequence must have been an inspiration for Keaton's "The General", and a flashback to Harold's boyhood shows how his distinctive bespectacled look even helped create Harry Potter. As usual, several good animal actors. There is one joke--having to do with a white family's black butler--that is in kind of questionable taste, but it could be construed as more of a comment on class than race. You'll enjoy watching this with your kids (or without!)