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Director:
Clyde Bruckman
Writers:
John Grey (story) &
Alfred A. Cohn (story) ...
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Release Date:
8 November 1930 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon... more | add synopsis
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Lloyd's misadventures include the amazing building routine... more (15 total)

Cast

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Harold Lloyd ... Harold Horne
Barbara Kent ... Barbara
Robert McWade ... John Quincy Tanner
Lillian Leighton ... Mrs. Tanner
Henry Hall ... Endicott
Noah Young ... Sailor
Alec B. Francis ... Mr. Carson, old-timer (as Alec Francis)
Arthur Housman ... Drunken clubman
Willie Best ... Janitor (as Sleep 'n' Eat)
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Nick Copeland ... Man arguing with friend
James Finlayson ... Painter
Buster Phelps ... Little boy
Leo Willis ... Truck driver
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Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (MovieTone)
Filming Locations:
848 S. Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
The Harold Lloyd Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The float plane shown picking up the mail is a 1926 Savoia. Savoia-Marchetti, American Aero: American Aeronautical Co, Port Washington NY. Savoia planes were more often called American Marchetti to disguise their Italian origin of design although they were built in the US under license. It was equipped with a 90hp Kinner K-5. Wing span: 34'1" Length: 25'0" Load: 699 lbs. v: 86/75/40 range: 290 miles/ceiling: 7000'. Cost: $7,375 with starter and navigation lights. NC378N was one of only 25 built in this configuration. more
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Lloyd's misadventures include the amazing building routine..., 20 April 2009
6/10
Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

This is one of Lloyd's first talkies and might have played better as a silent, since most of the action revolves around a whole bunch of amusing sight gags.

He's a hapless shoe salesman who tells a wealthy girl that he's a tycoon and spends the rest of the film trying to impress her after unable to leave a cruise ship before it takes off. All of the shipboard scenes are amusing but become repetitious after the first twenty minutes. Highlight of the humor is Lloyd's interaction with sailor Noah Young, adept at playing a dummy.

Silly plot manipulations end up with Lloyd getting stuck inside a mailbag and somehow hoisted up the side of a building on a flimsy scaffold. It's here that the film reminds one of the silent success he had with his skyscraper routine. Although the gags are inventive and foolish enough, it's an extended sequence that plays out over too much running time. WILLIE BEST is seen as a black maintenance man who's no help at all to Lloyd when he becomes aware of his plight. It's the kind of stereotyped role that makes today's politically correct audiences squirm.

Summing up: Funny in spots, but certainly not one of Lloyd's best efforts. The scaffolding gags look painfully real.

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