The City Slicker
Harold Lloyd is excellent as the city slicker. Great gymnastic stunts. The costumes are terrific. The story although corny is fun due to contributions by the ensemble.
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Just Rambling Along
In one of his first starring roles, Stan Laurel plays a foolhardy tramp on an unlucky streak. He tussles with a kid over a wallet left on the street just as the boy’s policeman father comes around the corner. After ducking the law, he pilfers his way down a cafeteria line but the lovely lady at his table...Start your free trial to watch
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The City Slicker
The Punkville Motel is "twenty years behind the Battle of Bull Run," a dusty place with a cantankerous clientele. Enter Harold Lloyd’s "glasses" character tasked with dressing the place up. A few tablecloths and modern gadgets seem to do the job. However, when a fetching belle and her jealous mother come...Start your free trial to watch
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The Non-Stop Kid
Harold Lloyd's "glasses" character bests the town's eligible bachelors for his sweetheart's affections but the girl's father has designs on Professor Noodle for a husband. Lloyd tricks the family into thinking he's the scholarly sort (at least until the real Noodle walks through the door). Lloyd easily...Start your free trial to watch
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Two Gun Gussie
When Sheriff Whooping-Cough Charlie mistakes Harold Lloyd's hapless piano player for a gunslinger, Lloyd learns that being a tough dude is all an act. That is, until he runs into the real thing at the bar! The place goes to pieces, but there's time for a kiss before this wild one-reeler is through.Start your free trial to watch
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Do You Love Your Wife?
“A vivid, gripping, gosh-awful story of intrigue, devotion and indigestion.” Well maybe not all that but DO YOU LOVE YOUR WIFE? does mark one of Stan Laurel’s earliest starring roles. He plays a goofy janitor who stumbles into a lover’s quarrel. When the cuckolded wife runs out of bullets, Stan helpfully...Start your free trial to watch
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An Eastern Westerner
Rural comedy abounds in this romp as young upstart Harold (Harold Lloyd) is shipped to his uncle’s ranch out west. There, he meets Mildred (Mildred Davis), assists her in staving off the unwanted affections of rogue Young (Noah Young) and, after a wild altercation with a gang of bandits, single-handedly...Start your free trial to watch
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Bumping Into Broadway
Harold Lloyd’s first "glass character" two-reeler, BUMPING INTO BROADWAY stars Lloyd and Bebe Daniels as theatrical hopefuls. He's a playwright; she's a chorus girl. The action is fierce as Harold attempts to save Bebe from a wicked society chap and gets into lots of trouble in the process. Look for Our...Start your free trial to watch
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Ring Up the Curtain
Harold Lloyd's "glasses" character tends bar at an opera house where a traveling performance company is due to perform. The show must go on if the curtains can't go up. Trapping a snake is a piece of cake next to winning the main actresses' heart: for Lloyd’s sweet naïf, heartbreak is one pratfall too many.Start your free trial to watch
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His Royal Slyness
A special opportunity to see the Lloyd brothers, Harold and Gaylord, work together. Harold, a book agent, bears an uncanny resemblance to the Prince of Razzamatazz (Gaylord). The two switch places and Harold travels to Thermosa where he falls in love with a princess (Mildred Davis) and manages to lead the...Start your free trial to watch
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Number, Please?
Arguably one of Harold Lloyd’s best two-reel comedies, NUMBER, PLEASE? takes place at a Los Angeles amusement park. It’s an unusual day: Mildred Davis is with another man, Harold is desperate to find her lost dog and Harold and Roy Brooks vie to take Mildred for a balloon ride. In the midst of the hilarity are two classic...Start your free trial to watch
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Captain Kidd's Kids
After a popular run making shorts as the Chaplin-esque “Lonesome Luke,” Harold Lloyd had just started making films in what he termed his “glasses” character, the bespectacled milquetoast we remember him for, when he starred in this early classic. His hero wakes up hungover from his first and last “big...Start your free trial to watch
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High and Dizzy
Harold Lloyd's "glasses" character starts HIGH AND DIZZY as a doctor sidetracked from curing his sleepwalking patient when he samples a few bottles too many of his friend's moonshine. Made in the first year of Prohibition, this acrobatic slapstick classic sends the two inebriated pals through a minefield of modern...Start your free trial to watch
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I Do
Originally in three reels, Harold Lloyd cut a whole reel after previews went poorly. The two-reel result is classic domestic comedy, with Harold as a henpecked hubby babysitting his two young nephews. See a jug of bootleg liquor masquerade as a baby in a carriage; watch Harold try to walk into his slippers which have been...Start your free trial to watch
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Short Orders
Stan Laurel bounces between the kitchen and dining room of a disordered restaurant. Menu specialties include over-sugared doughnuts, exploding meringues, stinky cheese sandwiches and steaks that double as shoe leather. A final debacle gives new meaning to a restaurant’s going to the dogs.Start your free trial to watch
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Short Orders
This very young Stan Laurel shows how he eventually became the brilliant foil to Oliver Hardy. The quick changes between waiter and cook and waiter again are a joy to...