Welcome Danger (1929)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Directors:

Clyde Bruckman
Malcolm St. Clair

Writers:

Felix Adler (screenplay)
Felix Adler (story)

Release Date:

12 October 1929 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

For the First Time! Hear Harold Lloyd Talk

Plot:

Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief...

Plot Keywords:

Chinatown | Distraction | Tripping | San Francisco California | Gangster

Cast

Harold Lloyd	...	Harold Bledsoe
Barbara Kent	...	Billie Lee
Noah Young	...	Patrick Clancy SFPD
Charles Middleton	...	John Thorne / The Dragon
Will Walling	...	Captain Walton, SFPD 3rd Div. (as William Walling)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Grady Sutton	...	Man at party (silent version) (scenes deleted)

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Filming Locations:

Metropolitan Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

The Harold Lloyd Corporation

Trivia:

Originally filmed as a silent feature (directed by Malcolm St. Clair) it was largely re-shot for sound release (directed by Clyde Bruckman). When it was previewed, it was over three hours in length, but cut to under two hours before general release.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: In many of the dubbed scenes, the voices are out of synchronization with the actors' lip movements.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "American Masters: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius" (1989)

Soundtrack:

Funeral March of a Marionette

A huge letdown

While one can admire Harold Lloyd's willingness to plunge into sound films, this effort is a huge letdown after the brilliance of his silent films, culminating in `Speedy.' Many of the gags go on WAY too long, and sound makes much of the slapstick more painful than funny. It may be that sound also contributes to making Lloyd's character extremely annoying, especially in the early reels. If that weren't enough, the dubbing process used in the scenes not reshot for sound is very primitive and distracting. Worth seeing for Lloyd fans, but not too funny.