Directed by Clyde Bruckman • 1929 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Noah Young
Harold Lloyd’s first talkie was originally filmed as a silent feature, only to be largely reshot to capitalize on the nascent sound technology. Here, the ever hapless everyman plays Harold Bledsoe, a timid botany student who, due to his late father’s position as San Francisco police chief, is called in to help investigate a growing crime wave in the city’s Chinatown, leading him on a wild slapstick goose chase to catch a shadowy crime boss.
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Feet First
Directed by Clyde Bruckman • 1930 • United States
The second and most popular talkie starring Harold Lloyd, FEET FIRST has the actor playing an upstart shoe salesman who pretends to be a millionaire tycoon in order to impress a young lady he meets in Honolulu. Directed by Clyde Bruckman, the fil...
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Movie Crazy
Directed by Clyde Bruckman • 1932 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth ThomsonClumsy Harold Hall (Harold Lloyd) is a young movie fan with a burning desire to be in pictures—but no real acting experience or ability. A mix-up in the casting office, however, brings hi...
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The Cat’s Paw
Directed by Sam Taylor • 1934 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel, George BarbierSilent-comedy legend Harold Lloyd’s fourth sound film is an outlandish, Capraesque political satire in which he plays Ezekiel Cobb, a naive young man raised by missionaries in China, who is brought to...
