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Starring Harold Lloyd

Starring Harold Lloyd

43 Episodes

One hundred years ago, Harold Lloyd gave the movies one of their most meme-able moments—the anxious, thrilling, clock-hanging climax of SAFETY LAST!, a film that still stands as a high-water mark of slapstick invention. Though often overlooked in favor of his more famous silent-clown contemporaries Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the bespectacled everyman was easily the equal of those legends in both hilarity and hair-raising derring-do. From the football-field antics of THE FRESHMAN to the freewheeling New York odyssey of SPEEDY, Lloyd’s innovative and endearing classics are packed wall-to-wall with some of the funniest and most unforgettable sight gags ever realized on film.

Please be advised: some of these films contain offensive racial stereotypes and scenes involving blackface.

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Episode 1

A Sailor-Made Man

Episode 2

Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1921 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young

Though 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...

Dr. Jack

Episode 3

Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1922 • United States

Harold Lloyd plays well-liked, common-sense country doctor Jack Jackson, who cares for the incurable Sick-Little-Well-Girl (Mildred Davis) and takes on the fraudulent Dr. Ludwig von Saulsbourg (Eric Mayne) in this upbeat silent comedy directed by ...

Grandma’s Boy

Episode 4

Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1922 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend

This 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...

Safety Last!

Episode 5

Directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor • 1923 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin is the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd—the modern guy striving for success—is us. And with its...

Why Worry?

Episode 6

Directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor • 1923 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen

Seeking a cure for his multitude of mostly imaginary ailments, wealthy hypochondriac Harold Van Pelham (Harold Lloyd) takes a tropical vacation to the South American island of “Parad...

Girl Shy

Episode 7

Directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor • 1924 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels

He may be completely inept around girls in real life, but that doesn’t stop poor tailor’s apprentice Harold Meadows (Harold Lloyd) from publishing “The Secret of Making Love,” h...

The Freshman

Episode 8

Directed by Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer • 1925 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston

Harold Lloyd’s biggest box-office hit was this silent comedy gem, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student. Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the ...

For Heaven’s Sake

Episode 9

Directed by Sam Taylor • 1926 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Paul Weigel

Feckless millionaire playboy J. Harold Manners (Harold Lloyd) leads a life of idle abandon, until he meets and falls in love with a poor minister’s daughter (Jobyna Ralston). His attempts to reform h...

The Kid Brother

Episode 10

Directed by Ted Wilde • 1927 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston

Silent-comedy legend Harold Lloyd goes west in this irresistible blend of action, romance, and slapstick invention. The bespec­tacled everyman is at his inimitable best as Harold Hickory, the gentle son of a promi...

Speedy

Episode 11

Directed by Ted Wilde • 1928 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff

SPEEDY was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd—and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his “Glasses Character,” this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who ca...

Welcome Danger

Episode 12

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, ...

Feet First

Episode 13

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...

Movie Crazy

Episode 14

Directed by Clyde Bruckman • 1932 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson

Clumsy 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...

The Cat’s Paw

Episode 15

Directed by Sam Taylor • 1934 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Una Merkel, George Barbier

Silent-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...

The Milky Way

Episode 16

Directed by Leo McCarey • 1936 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale

Arguably the finest of Harold Lloyd’s sound features, this uproarious adaptation of the Broadway play of the same name casts the comedian as a mild-mannered Brooklyn milkman who, thanks to the m...

Harold Lloyd’s Funny Side of Life

Episode 17

Directed by Harry Kerwin • 1963 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd

In 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...

Bashful

Episode 18

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

A man pretends to have a wife and family in order to claim an inheritance.

The Big Idea

Episode 19

Directed by Gilbert Pratt and Hal Mohr • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

An employee at a struggling antiques store gets creative in order to save the business.

By the Sad Sea Waves

Episode 20

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ‘Snub’ Pollard, Bebe Daniels

It’s trouble on the water when a man tries to woo his sweetheart by pretending to be a lifeguard.

Lonesome Luke, Messenger

Episode 21

Directed by Hal Roach • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, ‘Snub’ Pollard

A bicycle messenger wreaks havoc in a girls’ seminary.

Over the Fence

Episode 22

Directed by J. Farrell MacDonald and Harold Lloyd • 1917 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard

Harold Lloyd’s “Glasses Character” makes his debut in a tale of baseball hijinks.

A Gasoline Wedding

Episode 23

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, ’Snub’ Pollard, Bebe Daniels

Marital mayhem ensues when a poor boy attempts to woo the daughter of a wealthy man.

Look Pleasant, Please

Episode 24

Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

A flirty photographer incurs the wrath of a jealous husband—and tries to pass the blame to an unsuspecting stooge.