Classic Hollywood
21 Episodes
They don’t make ’em like they used to! Enjoy these classics from the golden age of Hollywood and beyond.
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1:54:24Episode 1
Suddenly, Last Summer
Episode 1
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz • 1959 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery CliftGay panic, incest, and a sprinkling of cannibalism: Tennessee Williams’s one-act southern-gothic shocker gets an appropriately lurid screen adaptation cowritten ...
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2:02:02Episode 2
A Place in the Sun
Episode 2
Directed by George Stevens • 1951 • United States
Starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley WintersMontgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor make for one of the most swoon-inducing screen couples of the 1950s in this deluxe, multi-Oscar-winning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s AN AMERICA...
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10:47Episode 3
By the Sad Sea Waves
Episode 3
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Bebe DanielsIt’s trouble on the water when a man tries to woo his sweetheart by pretending to be a lifeguard.
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25:31Episode 4
Haunted Spooks
Episode 4
Directed by Hal Roach and Alfred J. Goulding • 1920 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wallace HoweA hapless young man is roped into an arranged marriage to help a girl claim her inheritance: a haunted house!
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47:01Episode 5
A Sailor-Made Man
Episode 5
Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1921 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah YoungThough originally intended as a two-reel short, A SAILOR-MADE MAN wound up becoming Harold Lloyd’s first feature—simply because there were too many good gags to cut! Here, our bespectacled hero play...
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10:19Episode 6
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Episode 6
Directed by Hal Roach • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, ‘Snub’ PollardA bicycle messenger wreaks havoc in a girls’ seminary.
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29:51Episode 7
Harold Lloyd’s Funny Side of Life
Episode 7
Directed by Harry Kerwin • 1963 • United States
Starring Harold LloydIn 1966, Harold Lloyd created a theatrical program entitled HAROLD LLOYD’S FUNNY SIDE OF LIFE. The program presented THE FRESHMAN together with a brief on-camera introduction by Lloyd and a clip reel from his body of work, bot...
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09:42Episode 8
The Big Idea
Episode 8
Directed by Gilbert Pratt and Hal Mohr • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsAn employee at a struggling antiques store gets creative in order to save the business.
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10:53Episode 9
A Sammy in Siberia
Episode 9
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub PollardA bumbling American soldier saves a Russian girl from a band of drunken Bolsheviks.
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09:57Episode 10
A Gasoline Wedding
Episode 10
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ’Snub’ Pollard, Bebe DanielsMarital mayhem ensues when a poor boy attempts to woo the daughter of a wealthy man.
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05:08Episode 11
Over the Fence
Episode 11
Directed by J. Farrell MacDonald and Harold Lloyd • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub PollardHarold Lloyd’s “Glasses Character” makes his debut in a tale of baseball hijinks.
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10:35Episode 12
Look Pleasant, Please
Episode 12
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsA flirty photographer incurs the wrath of a jealous husband—and tries to pass the blame to an unsuspecting stooge.
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25:39Episode 13
Get Out and Get Under
Episode 13
Directed by Hal Roach • 1920 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Fred McPhersonA new automobile owner’s car troubles may doom his chance at romance.
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56:37Episode 14
Grandma’s Boy
Episode 14
Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1922 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna TownsendThis early feature-length silent comedy pushed the form forward by balancing slapstick hilarity with more serious character development. Using the extended running time to further develop his pop...
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11:08Episode 15
That’s Him
Episode 15
Directed by Gilbert Pratt • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsA newlywed husband, en route to his honeymoon, scrambles to find the train tickets he lost.
Please be advised: this film contains scenes involving blackface.
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10:41Episode 17
Next Aisle Over
Episode 17
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsA salesman makes trouble at his sweetheart’s department store—but winds up an unexpected hero.
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10:33Episode 18
Spring Fever
Episode 18
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe DanielsA beautiful spring day tempts a bookkeeper to play hooky from the office.
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1:11:26Episode 19
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Episode 19
Directed by Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner • 1928 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuireSTEAMBOAT BILL, JR. was Buster Keaton’s last independent silent comedy and also one of his finest. He stars as the sensitive son of a gruff riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence...
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Detour
Episode 20
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer • 1945 • United States
Starring Tom Neal, Ann SavageFrom Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist ...
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1:37:43Episode 21
History Is Made at Night
Episode 21
Directed by Frank Borzage • 1937 • United States
Jean Arthur plays a married woman who falls in love with a French headwaiter, much to the chagrin of her possessive and jealous husband.