Released - April, 1923 

Directed By - Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor

Starring – Harold Lloyd (The Boy), Mildred Davis (The Girl), Bill Strother (The Pal), Noah Young (The Law), Wescott Clarke (The Floorwalker).

Description – After saying goodby to his Mother and girlfriend at the trainstation (although it looks like he is going to the gallows), The Boy is off to the big city to find success.

He takes a sales clerk job at the Da Vore Department store earning a very modest wage. However, in an effort to not cause concern with his mother and girlfriend, he says he is doing much better than he actually is.

This false impression causes his girlfriend to believe that he can now support a family and she takes a train to join him. Not wanting to admit to his limited success, The Boy now pretends to be the store’s General Manager.

After hearing the real General Manager offer $1000 to anyone who can come up with a good idea that will bring more customers into the store, The Boy has a brainstorm. He partners with his construction worker friend ‘Limpy’ Bill offering him $500 if he will climb the 12 story building where the store is located.

This stunt generates a great deal of publicity, but there is one problem. It turns out that Bill is wanted by the police and The Boy is forced to climb the building himself.

NOTABLE: In 1994 this film was added to the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress.

The image of Harold Lloyd holding onto the bending clock hands on the side of the building is one of the most famous screen images of all time.

Harold Lloyd performed his own climbing stunts in spite of losing a thumb and forefinger four years earlier working on another film.. A prosthetic glove was used to disguise the deformity.

Personal Note: This is a classic silent comedy that when presented at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival as part of a compilation film produced by Lloyd generated renewed interest in the legendary silent comedian. The film is both very funny and very exciting.

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Released – August, 1932 

Directed By - Clyde Bruckman

Starring – Harold Lloyd (Harold Hall), Constance Cummings (Mary Sears), Kenneth Thomson (Vance), Louise Closser Hale (Mrs. Kitterman).

Description – With stars in his eyes small-town Harold Hall sets off for Hollywood wanting only to be in the movies. A beneficial mixup in an application gets Harold an opportunity for a screen-test that was meant for someone else.

Anything and everything goes wrong for Harold providing him a rude awakening with one exception…he catches the eye of a beautiful actress. A series of mis-adventures and mis-understandings follow.

Will Harold become a star, and more importantly; will Harold get the girl?

NOTABLE:  Appreciation of this film was to come some time after it’s release. At the time Lloyd’s style of comedy was out of fashion and the Great Depression had taken a good deal of the fun out of movie fans.

In 1962, at the Cannes Film Festival, Lloyd produced a compilation of his films titled Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy introducing him to a new generation.

Although Clyde Bruckman is credited as the Director, Lloyd himself directed most of this film due to Bruckman’s problems with alcohol.

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Personal Comment: This film is considered by many to be the best of Harold Lloyd’s talking motion pictures capturing the comedic genius of his silent films.

Enjoy the very funny scene where Harold unknowningly dons a magicians coat unleashing comic chaos that include mice and a bunny on the dance floor.

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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.

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Released – November, 1930 

Directed By - Clyde Bruckman

Starring – Harold Lloyd (Harold Horne), Barbara Kent (Barbara Tanner), Robert McWade (John Quincy Tanner), Lillian Leighton (Mrs. Tanner).

Description – Ambitious Honolulu shoe salesman Harold Horne unknowingly meets the daughter of his boss and in an effort to impress her claims to be a millionaire leather tycoon. There are plenty of laughs as Harold tries to hide his true identity both in the shoestore and onboard a ship where he becomes an accidental stowaway.

NOTABLE: A major silent film star, this was Harold Lloyd’s second talking picture. 

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July, 1920 - In August of 1920, popular silent screen comedian Harold Lloyd was seriously injured by the explosion of a prop bomb. After a long hospital stay and convalescence, Lloyd made a complete recovery, but did suffer the loss of his right thumb and forefinger.

In spite of his accident and the resulting injuries, Lloyd's career continued to flourish, and in 1924 he formed The Harold Lloyd Film Corporation. Lloyd is also became one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Lloyd was also one of the silent screen stars who was able to successfully make the transition to sound with the 1929 production of Welcome Danger. The film was a huge success as his faithful fans were eager to hear his voice on film.