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Director:
Fred C. Newmeyer
Writers:
Hal Roach (story) &
Sam Taylor (story) ...
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Release Date:
3 September 1922 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family more
Tagline:
Where Laughter Reigns and Joy Pours! more
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
charming, snappy, and modern more (15 total)

Cast

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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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Additional Details

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Runtime:
USA:60 min (21.5 fps) | USA:56 min (2002 release)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Certification:
UK:U | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Australia:G | Portugal:17 (director's cut)
Filming Locations:
General Service Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Company:
Hal Roach Studios more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Originally intended as a serious movie, this film was altered by Harold Lloyd into a comedy by adding the gag scenes later on. more
Goofs:
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. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Big Show (1923) more
Soundtrack:
You Are the Ideal of My Dreams more

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9 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
charming, snappy, and modern, 1 August 2002
8/10
Author: Claude Cat from United States

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!)

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