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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10:41Episode 1
Take a Chance
Episode 1
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1918 • United States
In this one-reel film from 1918, Harold Lloyd stars as a man looking to spend his last 25 cents.
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11:08Episode 2
That’s Him
Episode 2
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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13:37Episode 3
Ask Father
Episode 3
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Harold Lloyd plays a young man who attempts to avoid many obstacles in order to marry his boss's daughter.
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13:09Episode 4
Billy Blazes, Esq.
Episode 4
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Harold Lloyd plays Billy Blazes, a man who attempts to save Peaceful Vale from the violent Crooked Charley.
Please be advised: this film contains scenes involving yellowface.
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25:49Episode 5
Bumping into Broadway
Episode 5
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
This 1919 short is the only Harold Lloyd title other than SPEEDY set in New York City, although it was filmed entirely in Los Angeles. BUMPING INTO BROADWAY was also the first two-reeler to star Lloyd's "Glasses Character." This newly restored master ...
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19:25Episode 6
Captain Kidd’s Kids
Episode 6
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold LloydAfter a wild bachelor party, a boy finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures in this short film.
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09:50Episode 7
Just Neighbors
Episode 7
Directed by Harold Lloyd and Frank Terry • 1919 • United States
Suburban neighbors join together to build a garden shed, but end up demolishing their garden in this short silent comedy.
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14:10Episode 8
The Marathon
Episode 8
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1919 • United States
This 1919 one-reeler stars Harold Lloyd as one of Bebe Daniels’s many suitors, who, after a series of mishaps, ends up running in a local marathon. It is presented here with a new score composed and performed by Gabriel Thibaudeau.
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10:41Episode 9
Next Aisle Over
Episode 9
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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10:53Episode 10
A Sammy in Siberia
Episode 10
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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10:33Episode 11
Spring Fever
Episode 11
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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10:10Episode 12
Young Mr. Jazz
Episode 12
Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold LloydA young couple on the run encounter car trouble—right outside a dancehall teeming with outlaws. The two go through a slapstick struggle to keep the crooks, and the girlfriend’s angry father, at bay.
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27:49Episode 13
An Eastern Westerner
Episode 13
Directed by Hal Roach • 1920 • United States
In this two-reeler from 1920, a fast and furious parody of western films, Harold Lloyd stars as an East Coast boy shipped off to a ranch; Mildred Davis, who would later become Lloyd’s wife, costars. It is presented here with a new score composed and c...
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25:39Episode 14
Get Out and Get Under
Episode 14
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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25:31Episode 15
Haunted Spooks
Episode 15
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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27:24Episode 16
High and Dizzy
Episode 16
Directed by Hal Roach • 1920 • United States
In this silent film, a young man gets drunk by accident then winds up on a narrow ledge high above the street.
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22:06Episode 17
His Royal Slyness
Episode 17
Directed by Hal Roach • 1920 • United States
Harold Lloyd plays a tireless American bookseller traveling abroad in the kingdom of Thermosa, where he is mistaken for a prince. When the true prince returns to stake his claim to the throne, the country is thrown into turmoil.
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25:30Episode 18
Number, Please?
Episode 18
Directed by Hal Roach and Fred Newmeyer • 1920 • United States
A young, heartbroken man goes to the amusement park, only to see the girl he lost with a new man.
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29:55Episode 19
Never Weaken
Episode 19
Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1921 • United States
Harold Lloyd plays a young man who is in love with a young woman, but he mistakenly believes she loves another. Despondent, he decides to commit suicide, but each attempt is unsuccessful.