Dr. Jack 1922  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Doctor Jack
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, John T. Prince, Eric Mayne, C. Norman Hammond, Charles Stevenson, Anna Townsend
Small-town Dr. "Jack" Jackson (Harold Lloyd) visits The Sick-Little-Well-Girl (Mildred Davis) in the sanitarium where she is being cared for by a quack, Dr. Ludwig von Saulsbourg (Eric Mayne), who is making a fortune off his patient. Her treatment takes place in a dark room, and Dr. "Jack" decides that sunshine–not the dark–is what she needs. As it turns out, she falls in love with Dr. "Jack" and he with her. In the process, Dr. "Jack" scares Dr. Saulsbourg by disguising himself as an escaped convict, Dr. Saulsbourg leaves the sanitarium, and the love story is allowed to continue.
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Girl Shy 1924  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin
While others are out on dates, shy bachelor Harold Meadows (Harold Lloyd) stays home and writes chapter after chapter in his handbook, "The Secret of Making Love." While riding a train on the way to talk to a publisher, Harold meets and falls in love with Mary Buckingham (Jobyna Ralston) after he helps her smuggle her dog aboard the train. Unfortunately, Harold learns that Mary is engaged to marry another, and now all of his efforts go into stopping that wedding.
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Grandma's Boy 1922  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend, Charles Stevenson, Dick Sutherland, Noah Young, Wallace Howe, Roy Brooks, Gus Leonard, Gaylord Lloyd
Grandma's Boy (Harold Lloyd) is a coward, but with help from his Grandma (Anna Townsend), who gives him a magic amulet, he becomes a hero when he joins a posse and captures a fugitive tramp. In the process, he even wins his Girl (Mildred Davis).
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Hot Water 1924 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Josephine Crowell, Charles Stevenson, Mickey McBan, Edgar Dearing, Pat Harmon
This film is divided into three acts. In the first one, newly wed Harold (Harold Lloyd) enters into a henpecked relationship when Wifey (Jobyna Ralston) calls on the phone and asks him to bring home a few things from the market. Those errands include a ride on the trolley with a live turkey in tow. Next, his in-laws arrive for a visit, and Harold takes them for a catastrophic ride in his new car. Finally, Harold chloroforms his ill-tempered mother-in-law (Josephine Crowell), and, when she begins to sleep walk, Harold thinks she is haunting him. All three acts provide good classic comedy scenes.
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Safety Last 1923 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strothers, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke, Mickey Daniels, Anna Townsend, Helen Gilmore, Gus Leonard, Roy Brooks
A country boy heads to the big city to make good in this very funny silent film. He ends up climbing a building as a publicity stunt for the department store for which he works and this climb is one of the all-time classic sequences.
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A Sailor-Made Man 1921 N/R, 47 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Dick Sutherland, Gus Leonard, Leo Willis, Jobyna Ralston
In Harold Lloyd's first feature film, he takes on the role of a playboy who joins the Navy in order to prove to the father of his girlfriend (Mildred Davis) that he is worthy of her. When his ship pulls into port in a Middle Eastern country, his girlfriend and her father sail in on their yacht. The girlfriend is captured by a wicked maharaja (Dick Sutherland), and now it is up to the young Naval officer to rescue her.
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A Scream in the Night 1935  N/R, 58 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Murder in Morocco
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Zarah Tazil, Sheila Terry, Manuel Lopez, Richard Cramer, Philip Ahn, John Ince, John Lester Johnson, Merrill McCormick
Detective Jack Wilson (Lon Chaney Jr.) tracks a jewel thief (Manuel Lopez) to Singapore at the request of a friend, Edith (Sheila Terry). After Edith is kidnapped by the thief, Jack impersonates the thief's assistant (luckily he looks like the aide) to get the job done. This film sat on the shelf until 1943 when Chaney was a hot commodity.
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Why Worry? 1923 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Romance
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Wallace Howe, Jim Mason, Leo White, Gaylord Lloyd, Mark Jones, Sam Lufkin, Lee Phelps, Charles Stevenson
Wealthy businessman Harold Van Pelham (Harold Lloyd) is a hypochondriac who sails to the tropics to regain his "health." But there is no rest and relaxation on this trip when Harold finds himself in the middle of a political uprising. He is imprisoned and while there makes friends with a giant, Colosso (John Aasen). Together, the two escape confinement and eventually put an end to the revolution.
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| 1. Dr. Jack (1922)
aka: Doctor Jack
2. The Freshman (1925)
3. Girl Shy (1924)
4. Grandma's Boy (1922)
5. Hot Water (1924)
6. Safety Last (1923)
7. A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
8. A Scream in the Night (1935)
aka: Murder in Morocco
9. Why Worry? (1923)
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