Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.
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Judith Barrett
- Nancy
- (as Nancy Dover)
Billy Engle
- Assistant
- (uncredited)
Edgar Kennedy
- Station Master Kennedy
- (uncredited)
Gus Leonard
- Uncle
- (uncredited)
Bob Minford
- Messenger
- (uncredited)
Iris Nicholson
- Dancing Girl
- (uncredited)
Bob O'Connor
- O'Conor, Violinist
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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Roach + Langdon = No Laughs
Head Guy, The (1930)
* (out of 4)
To say this film has a plot would be somewhat of a stretch but it starts off with Edgar Kennedy having to leave the train station because his wife has just delivered twins. He puts Harry Langdon in charge who wrecks things from the word go and things don't get much better when a group of dancing girls show up. The scary thing about this horrid picture is that it's actually a minor step up from Langdon's previous Hal Roach effort SKIRT SHY. As with that film, the story here is just downright horrid and often times it seems as if no thought went into the picture and they just filmed stuff even if it wasn't meant to be in the movie. Just take a look at a sequence at the half-way mark where Langdon goes off into a room and crimes while saying he wants to die. This was exactly how I was feeling while watching this film but this sequence has a bizarre situation where Langdon just mumbles to himself and eventually stuffs a sandwich into his mouth while not making a bit of sense. Was this meant to be funny? Did no one at the studio dare say something about how bad this thing was turning out? THE HEAD GUY is just one sorry scene after another and for the life of me I can't understand what Langdon was doing here. The comic timing was extremely poor and he was just quite annoying. I'm still not sure why he was in the clown make up. We get Thelma Todd in a very quick sequence where she asks Langdon to walk her dog and that's it.
* (out of 4)
To say this film has a plot would be somewhat of a stretch but it starts off with Edgar Kennedy having to leave the train station because his wife has just delivered twins. He puts Harry Langdon in charge who wrecks things from the word go and things don't get much better when a group of dancing girls show up. The scary thing about this horrid picture is that it's actually a minor step up from Langdon's previous Hal Roach effort SKIRT SHY. As with that film, the story here is just downright horrid and often times it seems as if no thought went into the picture and they just filmed stuff even if it wasn't meant to be in the movie. Just take a look at a sequence at the half-way mark where Langdon goes off into a room and crimes while saying he wants to die. This was exactly how I was feeling while watching this film but this sequence has a bizarre situation where Langdon just mumbles to himself and eventually stuffs a sandwich into his mouth while not making a bit of sense. Was this meant to be funny? Did no one at the studio dare say something about how bad this thing was turning out? THE HEAD GUY is just one sorry scene after another and for the life of me I can't understand what Langdon was doing here. The comic timing was extremely poor and he was just quite annoying. I'm still not sure why he was in the clown make up. We get Thelma Todd in a very quick sequence where she asks Langdon to walk her dog and that's it.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Feb 2, 2011
Details
- Runtime22 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
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