The Cat's-Paw 1934  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sam Taylor
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Nat Pendleton, Grace Bradley, Alan Dinehart, Grant Mitchell, E. Alyn Warren, Warren Hymer, J. Farrell MacDonald, James Donlan, Edwin Maxwell, Frank Sheridan, David Holt, Fuzzy Knight
After spending 20 years in China, Ezekiel Cobb (Harold Lloyd) returns to his hometown of Stockport, California, and wins the election for mayor after corrupt politicians convince him to run. Now, he begins a campaign to reform the town and uses his recently gained Chinese wisdom to obtain confessions before running the tough guys out of town.
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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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Feet First 1930 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Clyde Bruckman
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Robert McWade, Lillian Leighton, Barbara Kent, Alec B. Francis, Noah Young, Henry Hall, Arthur Housman, Willie Best, Noah Beery, Buster Phelps, Leo Willis, James Finlayson
While on a cruise to Honolulu, shoe salesman Harold Horne (Harold Lloyd) falls in love with heiress Barbara Carson (Barbara Kent) who believes that Harold is a millionaire. While trying to hide the deceit, Harold becomes tied up in a mail sack and lands on a builder's hoist near a skyscraper. Now, he must find a way to climb down the building–and the acrobatic fun begins.
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For Heaven's Sake 1926  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Sam Taylor
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Noah Young, Jim Mason, Paul Weigel, Richard Daniels, Blanche Payson, Constantine Romanoff
Millionaire playboy J. Harold Manners (Harold Lloyd) falls in love with the Downtown Girl mission worker (Jobyna Ralston). He decides to help the girl's father attract worshippers from a group of thugs by goading them into the mission and, thus, saving them from being arrested. When J. Harold and his Downtown Girl decide to marry, his wealthy friends kidnap him to prevent the wedding from happening. But those converted thugs come to the rescue, and the couple marries and lives happily ever after.
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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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The Kid Brother 1927  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Lewis Milestone
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis, Olin Francis, Constantine Romanoff, Eddie Boland, Frank Lanning, Ralph Yearsley, Frank Mitchell, Arthur Millett, Gus Leonard
This is perhaps Harold Lloyd's greatest film–a real silent classic, which is both hilarious and warm. Tough Sheriff Jim Hickory has two tough sons–Leo and Olin (Leo Willis and Olin Francis)–and one wimpy one, Harold (Lloyd). The only way for Harold to win respect is to out-think the others while also trying to win the affection of his fair maiden Mary (Jobyna Ralston). Then, when the town's money is stolen, and Harold's father is accused, Harold is the one who must save the day.
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The Milky Way 1936 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack, George Barbier, Lionel Stander, William Gargan, Charles(1) Lane, Marjorie Gateson, Milburn Stone, Anthony Quinn
Harold Lloyd is very amusing in his role of the milkman who rises in the ranks to become a champion boxer–mostly due to his manager's wheeling and dealing. A young Anthony Quinn is seen fleetingly.
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Movie Crazy 1932 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Clyde Bruckman
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson, Sidney Jarvis, Eddie Fetherston, Robert McWade, Louise Closser Hale, Spencer Charters, Harold Goodwin, Lucy Beaumont, DeWitt Jennings, Mary Doran, Noah Young, Arthur Housman, Grady Sutton
Kansas boy Harold Hall (Harold Lloyd) is a big movie fan and sends a letter to Hollywood asking for a movie role. His letter is confused with another from a talented performer, and Harold soon gets an invitation to come for a screen test. Now the slapstick fun begins when the bungling Harold tries to break into the movie world.
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Professor Beware 1938 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Elliott Nugent
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Welch, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, William Frawley, Thurston Hall, Cora Witherspoon, Sterling Holloway, Mary Lou Lender, Montagu Love, Etienne Girardot, Christian Rub, Spencer Charters, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Ward Bond
Archaeologist Prof. Dean Lambert (Harold Lloyd) is scheduled to go on trial, but there is a delay in the court proceedings, and he will miss an expedition to Egypt if he waits. Instead, he skips bail and heads out from Los Angeles to New York City. And the chase is on when he hops a train for the trip to New York during which he evades police, meets and is attracted to Jane (Phyllis Welch), and has adventures with hoboes.
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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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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock 1947 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Mad Wednesday
Director: Preston Sturges
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn, Rudy Vallee, Edgar Kennedy, Arline Judge, Franklin Pangborn, Lionel Stander, Margaret Hamilton, Al Bridge, Jack Norton, Robert Dudley, Arthur Hoyt, Julius Tannen
Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd) had been a successful football player, then spent 23 years as a bookkeeper, and now has been fired. He goes to a bar, orders a potent drink, and goes on a wild spree. He wakes up 48 hours later with no idea of what has happened in the interim. Later, he learns that he has bought a circus and brings a circus lion, Jackie the Lion, with him when he visits bankers offering them the chance to buy the circus.
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Speedy 1928 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action
Director: Ted Wilde
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Brooks Benedict, Babe Ruth, Bryan Douglas
When railroaders try to ruin Grandpa's (Bert Woodruff) horse-drawn bus service, his granddaughter Jane (Ann Christy) gets help from Harold "Speedy" Swift (Harold Lloyd). He hitches up horses to a horsecar, races through New York City streets, and saves the day. Good scenes of the Queensboro and Brooklyn Bridges, Yankee Stadium, Times Square, and Central Park as they were many years ago.
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Welcome Danger 1929 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Clyde Bruckman, Malcolm St. Clair
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Douglas Haig, Noah Young, Charles Middleton, Will Walling, James Wang, Nelson McDowell, Edgar Kennedy, Jim Mason, Eddy Chandler, Tetsu Komai, James B. Leong, Leo Willis
In silent-screen-films' comedian Harold Lloyd's first "talkie" film, he plays botany student Harold Bledsoe who reluctantly succeeds his father on the San Francisco police force. On the way to his new job, he meets Billie Lee (Barbara Kent), and, despite problems, romance blooms. He succeeds as a police officer when he teams up with Officer Patrick Clancy (Noah Young), and, together, they break up a drug-dealing ring in Chinatown.
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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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World of Comedy 1962 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Documentary
aka: Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy
Director: Harold Lloyd
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Mildred Davis
This film represents the compilation of Harold Lloyd's silent comedies and includes "Safety Last" (1923), "Hot Water" (1924), "Girl Shy" (1924), and "The Kid Brother" (1924). Also included are scenes from Lloyd's talkies and include "Movie Crazy (1932) and "Feet First" (1930). Assembled by Lloyd himself, the scenes provide good viewing.
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| 1. The Cat's-Paw (1934)
2. Dr. Jack (1922)
aka: Doctor Jack
3. Feet First (1930)
4. For Heaven's Sake (1926)
5. The Freshman (1925)
6. Girl Shy (1924)
7. Grandma's Boy (1922)
8. Hot Water (1924)
9. The Kid Brother (1927)
10. The Milky Way (1936)
11. Movie Crazy (1932)
12. Professor Beware (1938)
13. Safety Last (1923)
14. A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
15. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
aka: Mad Wednesday
16. Speedy (1928)
17. Welcome Danger (1929)
18. Why Worry? (1923)
19. World of Comedy (1962)
aka: Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy
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