Released – December, 1921 

Directed By - Fred C. Newmeyer

Starring – Harold Lloyd (The Boy), Mildred Davis (The Girl), Noah Young (The Rowdey Element), Dick Sutherland (The Maharagah).

Description – A boy can not receive his girlfriends father's marriage blessing until he does one thing. He must prove to the father that he is capable of doing something worthwhile. In an effort to impress the father, he joins the Navy.

The ship he is on docks in a Middle Eastern Kingdom. The girl and her father sail on their yacht to meet the boy at the Middle East dock. Soon after they arrive, the girl is kidnapped by the local Maharagah with her only hope of being saved now in the boys hands.

NOTABLE:  This was popular silent screen comedy actor Harold Lloyd's first feature film making him just the second silent comedian to do so.

Included in the Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection  Vol. 2

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Released – January, 1921 

Directed By -  Charles Chaplin

Starring – Charlie Chaplin (The Tramp), Jackie Coogan (The Kid (“John”), Edna Purviance (Mother).

Description – Finding an abandoned baby in an alley, The Tramp cares for it. As the baby grows into a child, the pair become an effective team of scammers in order to survive.

Events that are tied to the baby’s original abandonment by his now successful mother, an opera singer, soon catch up with the pair and the authorities are poised to take the child to an orphanage.

With his heart breaking, The Tramp makes a desperate attempt to regain the child. Having done so, the two go into hiding. However, this story is far from being over.

NOTABLE: This is the first feature length comedy film to successfully combine comedy and human drams.

Though Chaplin’s character of The Tramp was already familiar to movie audiences, this was the first time they saw him with emotional depth. They loved it!

This film made actor Jackie Coogan, who previously had been working in vaudeville, the first major child movie star.

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