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1:54:24Episode 1Suddenly, 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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1:48:12Episode 2The Children’s Hour
Episode 2
Directed by William Wyler • 1961 • United States
Starring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James GarnerA child’s lie has life-shattering consequences in this daring adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s celebrated play—previously filmed by director William Wyler as THESE THREE. Karen (Audrey Hepburn...
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10:47Episode 3By 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 4Haunted 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 5A 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 6Lonesome 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 7Harold 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 8The 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 9A 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 10A 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 11Over 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 12Look 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 13Get 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 14Grandma’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 15That’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 17Next 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 18Spring 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 19Steamboat 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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1:28:16Episode 20The Palm Beach Story
Episode 20
Directed by Preston Sturges • 1942 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary AstorThis wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, fin...
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1:51:40Episode 21Ball of Fire
Episode 21
Directed by Howard Hawks • 1941 • United States
Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara StanwyckBarbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper make sparks in this snappy screwball take on the Snow White tale. She’s a burlesque queen with a colorful vocabulary who needs to lay low for a while as the police close in on ...
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Detour
Episode 22
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 23History Is Made at Night
Episode 23
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.