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Never Weaken

  • 19211921
  • PassedPassed
  • 19m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
1.9K
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Mildred Davis and Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
ShortComedyThriller
A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
1.9K
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    • Fred C. Newmeyer
    • Hal Roach(story)
    • Sam Taylor(story)
    • H.M. Walker(titles)
  • Stars
    • Harold Lloyd
    • Mildred Davis
    • Roy Brooks
    • Fred C. Newmeyer
    • Hal Roach(story)
    • Sam Taylor(story)
    • H.M. Walker(titles)
  • Stars
    • Harold Lloyd
    • Mildred Davis
    • Roy Brooks
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 25User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
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    Mildred Davis and Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
    Mildred Davis and Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
    Roy Brooks, Mildred Davis, and Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
    Mildred Davis and Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
    Harold Lloyd and Charles Stevenson in Never Weaken (1921)
    Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
    Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
    Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
    Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
    Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
    Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)
    Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)

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    Harold Lloyd
    Harold Lloyd
    • The Boy
    Mildred Davis
    Mildred Davis
    • The Girl
    Roy Brooks
    Roy Brooks
    • The Other Man
    Mark Jones
    Mark Jones
    • The Acrobat
    Charles Stevenson
    Charles Stevenson
    • The Police Force
    William Gillespie
    William Gillespie
    • The Doctor
    • (uncredited)
    Helen Gilmore
    Helen Gilmore
      Wally Howe
      Wally Howe
      • Man in Wheel Chair
      • (uncredited)
      Gaylord Lloyd
        Robert Emmett O'Connor
        Robert Emmett O'Connor
          George Rowe
          George Rowe
          • Cross-Eyed Henpecked Hubby
          • (uncredited)
          Molly Thompson
            Tiny Ward
              Joseph White
                Vera White
                    • Fred C. Newmeyer
                    • Hal Roach(story)
                    • Sam Taylor(story)
                    • H.M. Walker(titles)
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                  • Trivia
                    Pioneering stuntman Harvey Parry doubled for Harold Lloyd in several of the most dangerous shots in this and other Harold Lloyd films; only after the death of Lloyd (who was always said to do his own stunts) did Parry "go public" about his involvement.
                  • Goofs
                    The boy rips off a loosely thread button from his suit jacket and spills the glass of poison. His jacket is still missing the button up to when he is sitting in his chair awaiting the janitor to open the office door. However, when he is sitting on the chair on the girder, his jacket has regained the missing button, and it remains for the rest of the film.
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                    The Girl: He can do anything he tries. Why, he even learned the names of all the vice presidents.

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                    The cast title page is headed "Just passing by". Below the cast list: The Plot - a youth of twenty-one and a maid of eighteen. Shakespeare couldn't have asked for more.
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                  7/10
                  NEVER WEAKEN (Fred Newmeyer, 1921) ***
                  This is one of Harold Lloyd's best shorts and the second of his thrill comedies (in chronological order) to be included in this collection. The film can be neatly divided into three sections: the first sees Harold ingeniously gathering patients for the despondent clinic where his beloved, Mildred Davis, works (and which probably influenced Lloyd's later feature FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE [1926]); the second, as was the case with many a Lloyd comedy, he goes through several failed attempts at suicide (when he mistakes Mildred's clergyman brother for her lover!); the last third - and the undeniable highlight - has the star up to his neck in trouble when he ends up high in the air on a construction site (featuring some of Lloyd's most incredible stuntwork, the whole idea was borrowed by Laurel & Hardy for the second half of one of their most popular Silent shorts, LIBERTY [1929]).
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                  • Release date
                    • October 22, 1921 (United States)
                    • United States
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                  • Filming locations
                    • Hill Street, Los Angeles, California, USA
                  • Production company
                    • Rolin Films
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                  • 19 minutes
                    • Black and White
                    • Silent

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