Harold Lloyd Collection - 9-DVD Box Set ( Safety Last! / Girl Shy / The Cat's-Paw / The Milky Way / Why Worry? / Dr. Jack / Feet First / The Kid Brother / Bumping Into Broadway / Billy Blazes, Esq. / Hot Water / Now or Never / High and Dizzy / Get Out and Get Under ) ( Speedy / Never Weaken / Haunted Spooks / Grandma's Boy / A Sailor-Made Man / For Heaven's Sake / Movie Crazy / Welcome Danger / Ask Father / The Freshman / By the Sad Sea Waves / The Marathon / Just Neighbors / Captain Kidd's Kids / An Eastern Westerner )

Harold Lloyd Collection - 9-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Safety Last! / Girl Shy / The Cat's-Paw / The Milky Way / Why Worry? / Dr. Jack / Feet First / The Kid Brother / Bumping Into Broadway / Billy Blazes, Esq. / Hot Water / Now or Never / High and Dizzy / Get Out and Get Under
Alternate Title: Speedy / Never Weaken / Haunted Spooks / Grandma's Boy / A Sailor-Made Man / For Heaven's Sake / Movie Crazy / Welcome Danger / Ask Father / The Freshman / By the Sad Sea Waves / The Marathon / Just Neighbors / Captain Kidd's Kids / An Eastern Westerner
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1476 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Short Film
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1917 - 1963 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Fred C. Newmeyer
Sam Taylor
Hal Roach
Leo McCarey
Clyde Bruckman
Ted Wilde
J.A. Howe
H.M. Walker
Alfred J. Goulding

Written By:
Hal Roach
Sam Taylor
Frank Terry
H.M. Walker
Ted Wilde
Clarence Budington Kelland
Grover Jones
Frank Butler
John Grey
Alfred A. Cohn
Lex Neal
Ralph Spence
Agnes Christine Johnston
Paul Girard Smith
Felix Adler

Actors:
Harold Lloyd ..... The Boy
Mildred Davis ..... The Girl
Bill Strother ..... The Pal
Noah Young ..... The Law
Westcott Clarke ..... The Floorwalker
Noah Young ..... Tiger Lip Tompkins, The Bully, Leader of the Masked Angels
James T. Kelley
Sammy Brooks
Mark Jones
Wallace Howe
Harold Lloyd ..... The Poor Boy
Jobyna Ralston ..... The Rich Girl
Richard Daniels ..... The Poor Man
Carlton Griffin ..... The Rich Man
Harold Lloyd ..... Ezekiel Cobb
Una Merkel ..... Petunia Pratt
Cobb ..... Jake Mayo
George Barbier ..... Strozzi
Nat Pendleton ..... Dolores Doce
Grace Bradley ..... Mayor Ed Morgan
Alan Dinehart ..... Silk Hat McGee
Grant Mitchell ..... Tien Wang
E. Alyn Warren ..... 'Spike' Slattery
Warren Hymer ..... Shigley
J. Farrell MacDonald ..... Red - the Reporter
James Donlan ..... District Attorney Neal
Edwin Maxwell ..... Dan Moriarity - Police Commissioner
Frank Sheridan ..... Stuttering Gangster
Fuzzy Knight ..... Wilks - a Gangster
Vince Barnett
Harold Lloyd ..... Burleigh Sullivan
Adolphe Menjou ..... Gabby Sloan
Verree Teasdale ..... Ann Westley
Helen Mack ..... Mae Sullivan
William Gargan ..... Speed McFarland
George Barbier ..... Wilbur Austin
Dorothy Wilson ..... Polly Pringle
Lionel Stander ..... Spider Schultz
Charles Lane ..... Willard
Marjorie Gateson ..... Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
Harold Lloyd ..... Harold Van Pelham
Jobyna Ralston ..... The Nurse
John Aasen ..... Colosso
Wallace Howe ..... The Valet
Jim Mason ..... Jim Blake
Leo White ..... Herculeo
Gaylord Lloyd ..... Man
Mark Jones ..... Mounted Captain
Harold Lloyd ..... Dr. 'Jack' Jackson
Mildred Davis ..... The Sick-Little-Well-Girl
John T. Prince ..... Her Father
Eric Mayne ..... Dr. Ludwig von Saulsbourg
C. Norman Hammond ..... Jamison - the Lawyer
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: ..... Asylum Guard
Charles Stevenson
Harold Lloyd ..... Harold Horne
Barbara Kent ..... Barbara
Robert McWade ..... John Quincy Tanner
Lillian Leighton ..... Mrs. Tanner
Henry Hall ..... Mr. Endicott
Noah Young ..... Sailor
Alec B. Francis ..... Mr. Carson - Old-timer
Arthur Housman ..... Drunken Clubman
Willie Best ..... Janitor
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: ..... Painter
James Finlayson
Harold Lloyd ..... Harold Hickory
Jobyna Ralston ..... Mary Powers
Walter James ..... Jim Hickory
Leo Willis ..... Leo Hickory
Olin Francis ..... Olin Hickory
Constantine Romanoff ..... Sandoni
Eddie Boland ..... 'Flash' Farrell
Frank Lanning ..... Sam Hooper
Ralph Yearsley ..... Hank Hooper
Bebe Daniels ..... The Girl
'Snub' Pollard ..... Director of Musical Comedy
Helen Gilmore ..... 'Bearcat' the Landlady
Noah Young ..... The Bearcat's Bouncer
Fred C. Newmeyer ..... Desperate Spinster
Gus Leonard
Harold Lloyd ..... Billy Blazes
Bebe Daniels ..... Nell
'Snub' Pollard ..... Sheriff 'Gun Shy' Gallagher
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Billy Fay
Harold Lloyd ..... Hubby
Jobyna Ralston ..... Wifey
Josephine Crowell ..... Her Mother
Charles Stevenson ..... Her Big Brother
Mickey McBan ..... Her Little Brother
Anna Mae Bilson ..... The Lonesome Little Child
Roy Brooks ..... His Friend
Wallace Howe ..... Her Father
Fred McPherson ..... The Rival
Harold Lloyd ..... Harold 'Speedy' Swift
Ann Christy ..... Jane Dillon
Bert Woodruff ..... Pop Dillon - Her Grand-daddy
Brooks Benedict ..... Steve Carter
Babe Ruth ..... George Herman Ruth
Roy Brooks ..... The Other Man
Mark Jones ..... The Acrobat
Charles Stevenson ..... The Police Force
Wallace Howe ..... The Uncle
Harold Lloyd ..... Grandma's Boy
Mildred Davis ..... His Girl
Anna Townsend ..... His Grandma
Charles Stevenson ..... His Rival / Union General
Dick Sutherland ..... The Rolling Stone
Noah Young ..... Sheriff of Dabney County
Roy Brooks ..... The Rival
Noah Young ..... The Rowdy Element
Dick Sutherland ..... Maharajah of Khairpura-Bhandanna
Harold Lloyd ..... O'Reilly, The Boy
Mildred Davis ..... Miss O'Brien, The Girl
James T. Kelley ..... Mr. O'Brien, the Father
Aggie Herring ..... Mrs. O'Brien, the Mother
Vera White ..... Society Pilot
William Gillespie ..... Hard-Boiled Party
Noah Young ..... The Agitation
Jack Morgan ..... The Disturbance
Jack Edwards ..... The Annoyance
Harold Lloyd ..... The Uptown Boy
Jobyna Ralston ..... The Downtown Girl
Noah Young ..... The Roughneck
Jim Mason ..... The Gangster
Paul Weigel ..... The Optimist
Harold Lloyd ..... Harold Hall aka Trouble
Constance Cummings ..... Mary Sears
Kenneth Thomson ..... Vance
Louise Closser Hale ..... Mrs. Kitterman
Spencer Charters ..... J.L. O'Brien
Robert McWade ..... Wesley Kitterman, Producer
Eddie Fetherston ..... Bill (assistant director)
Sydney Jarvis ..... The Director
Harold Goodwin ..... Miller
Mary Doran ..... Margie
DeWitt Jennings ..... Mr. Hall
Lucy Beaumont ..... Mrs. Hall
Arthur Housman ..... Customer Who Didn't Order Rabbit
Harold Lloyd ..... Harold Bledsoe
Barbara Kent ..... Billie Lee
Noah Young ..... Patrick Clancy SFPD
Charles Middleton ..... John Thorne / The Dragon
Will Walling ..... Captain Walton, SFPD 3rd Div.
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: ..... Man at Party (silent version)
Grady Sutton
Bebe Daniels ..... Switchboard operator
'Snub' Pollard ..... The Corn-Fed Secretary
Wallace Howe ..... The Boss
Bud Jamison ..... Guardian at the door
Noah Young ..... Large office worker
Sammy Brooks ..... Short office worker
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: ..... Office worker
Harry Burns
William Gillespie
Lew Harvey
Margaret Joslin
Dorothea Wolbert
Peggy Cartwright ..... The Waif
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: ..... The Kidnapper
'Snub' Pollard
Harold Lloyd ..... The Freshman
Jobyna Ralston ..... Peggy
Brooks Benedict ..... The College Cad
James Anderson ..... The College Hero
Hazel Keener ..... The College Belle
Joseph Harrington ..... The College Tailor
Pat Harmon ..... The Football Coach

Synopsis:

Third largest US comic after Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd remains famous with its character of "the man with the horn-rimmed glasses." This DVD Collector's Box contains 16 of his greatest masterpieces and 13 short films (many previously unpublished) stories most hilarious and incredible as each other! Collection Features: Safety Last!, Girl Shy, The Cat's Paw, The Milky Way, Why Worry?, Dr. Jack, Feet First, Kid Brother, Hot Water, Speedy, Grandma's Boy, A Sailor Made Man, For Heaven's Sake, Movie Crazy, Welcome Danger, The Freshman. Short films: Bumping Into Broadway, Ask Father, Billy Blazes Esq, Now or Never, High and Dizzy, Get Out And Under, Never Weaken, Haunted Spooks, By the Sad Sea Waves, The Marathon, Just Neighbors, Captain Kidd's Kids, An Eastern Westerner. World of Comedy, Funny Side of Life.

SAFETY LAST! (1923)
Producer: Hal Roach Directors: Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd's most-famous comedy features him as a sales clerk in a department store who finds himself hanging off the hands of a collapsing clock on the side of a skyscraper high above the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Harold's legendary building climb is breathtaking-and hilariously funny-at the same time. What is even more amazing is that the sequence was achieved without any rear-screen projection or special effects. Lloyd was just as high above ground as one sees him in the film. The fourth-and best-of Lloyd's five famous 'thrill' comedies.

GIRL SHY (1924)
Producer: Harold Lloyd Directors: Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Harold is a shy tailor's apprentice who has a pronounced stutter and is afraid of girls. He spends his lonely evenings writing a book called The Secret of Love Making until he is galvanized into action when he discovers that the girl he loves (Jobyna Ralston) is about to marry a bigamist. What follows is arguably the greatest race-to-the-rescue sequence of the entire silent cinema. The film's ending was the inspiration for Mike Nichol's The Graduate (1967) over forty years later. One of Lloyd's most influential and important films.

THE CAT'S PAW (1934)
Producer: Harold Lloyd Director: Sam Taylor
Born to an American missionary in China, Harold comes back to the USA as a total innocent and finds himself accidentally involved in a ferocious war between local Chinese tongs. The town politicians see him a perfect tool and he is persuaded to run for Mayor. They think he will be putty in their hands but, in a complete turnaround at the end, he proves to be quite the contrary.

THE MILKY WAY (1936)
Producer: E. Lloyd Sheldon Director: Leo McCarey. Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.

WHY WORRY? (1923)
Producer: Hal Roach Directors: Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Harold plays wealthy hypochondriac Harold van Pelham, who travels with his private nurse (Jobyna Ralston) to the fictious island of Paradiso to live blissfully in a warm climate in order to regain his health. In Paradiso, he finds himself in the middle of a revolution, which Harold assumes is being staged as an entertainment for his amusement. With the aide of an eight feet nine inch giant named Colosso (Johan Aasen), Harold crushes the rebellion and the excitement cures him of his imagined ailments. Why Worry? is unquestionably on of Lloyd's most hilarious comedies.

DR. JACK (1922)
Producer: Hal Roach Director: Fred Newmeyer
Harold plays Dr. Jackson (Dr. Jack for short), a small-town doctor who is a friend to everyone and eager to help. He approaches the healing of his patients through psychology and the nontraditional means of joy and excitement rather than medicine. Dr. Jack comes to the rescue of the Sick-Little-Well-Girl (Mildred Davis) who is deliberately coddled by her quack doctor (Eric Mayne).

FEET FIRST (1930)
Producer: Harold Lloyd Director: Clyde Bruckman
Harold plays Harold Horne, an ambitious Honolulu shoe clerk determined to make his way into the ranks of high society. He becomes a stowaway aboard a ship while masquerading as a successful businessman, and manages to be accidentally flown to shore by seaplane while hiding in a mailbag. The mailbag is accidentally dropped on a painter's scaffold that starts ascending the façade of a downtown Los Angeles office building. The mailbag gets caught on an awning hook, which leaves it-and Harold-suspended several stories above ground. Ignorant of his location, Harold cuts his way out of the mailbag, is horrified to discover his predicament, and is forced to blimb the building. Feet First was Lloyd's fifth and final 'thrill' picture, designed to recapture the thrills of the silent-film Safety Last! with sound.

THE KID BROTHER (1927)
Producer: Harold Lloyd Directors: Ted Wilde and J.A.Howe
The Kid Brother is Harold Lloyd's masterpiece and Lloyd's favourite of all his films. Harold is a country boy who is the 'Cinderella' of the Hickory family. Shy and bespectacled, his wit and ingenuity are not appreciated by his physically robust but none-too-bright father and brothers. When Mary arrives with the traveling road show, Harold needs all his quick wits and courage to defeat the villains, win the girl of his dreams and finally gain his father's approval.

HOT WATER (1924)
Producer: Harold Lloyd Directors: Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer
A hilarious domestic-life comedy begins with Harold with an armful of packages and a live turkey on a streetcar, followed by a disastrous spin in his new car with his in-laws, and ending with haunted house-type thrills provoked by his mother-in-law (Josephine Crowell).

SPEEDY (1928)
Producer: Harold Lloyd Director: Ted Wilde
Speedy, Lloyd's last silent film, is a superb valedictory to the silent era. 'Speedy' was Harold's real-life nickname (given to him by his father) and the film is appropriately fast-paced. Lloyd plays Harold 'Speedy' Swift, a baseball-crazy young man who cannot hold a job. His employment misadventures include work as a soda jerk and a cab driver. Harold's girlfriend, Jane (Ann Christy), lives with her grandfather, 'Pop' Dillon (Bert Woodruff), who owns New York City's last horse-drawn streetcar. A gang hired by a railroad monopoly steals the horse and streetcar. By stopping Pop's streetcar from operating more than twenty-four hours, the rail monopoly hopes to steal away his franchise. Speedy ultimately finds the car and manages to get it back on track in time to make the daily run, saving Pop's franchise. Filmed partly on location in New York, the film features a memorable cameo from baseball legend Babe Ruth and a wild chase scene in downtown Manhattan, where Harold must hurtle the horse-drawn streetcar pell-mell through chaotic city traffic.

GRANDMA'S BOY (1922)
Producer: Hal Roach Director: Fred Newmeyer
Harold is a cowardly young man who runs to his grandmother (Anna Townsend) out of fear when he is asked to participate in the manhunt for a tramp (Dick Sutherland) who has killed a man. The boy finds the courage only after his wise granny gives him a magic talisman that she tells him had helped his equally timid grandfather become a hero in the Civil War. Only after Harold single-handedly captures the killer does his grandmother tell him the truth-the talisman was a fake, nothing more than an old umbrella handle. Harold always had the courage inside him; he just had to find it for himself-a classic Lloyd lesson. The film ends with Harold ridding himself of a bully (Charles Stevenson) and proposing to his girl (Mildred Davis). The film's brilliantly integrated plot and gags made Grandma's Boy one of the most influential of silent feature-length comedies. Upon its release Charlie Chaplin called it 'one of the best-constructed screenplays I have ever seen' and elements of the film can be seen in Buster Keaton's masterpiece, The General (1926).

A SAILOR-MADE MAN (1921)
Producer: Hal Roach Director: Fred Newmeyer. Harold is introduced as 'The Boy-Idle heir to twenty millions-And a nerve that would blunt the edge on forked lightning.' At the country club, he gets the attention of a popular girl (Mildred Davis) by saying, 'It's too hot to play croquet; let's get married.' When she tells Harold he must first ask her father, the father tells Harold that he will not allow her to marry him until he makes something of himself; so Harold joins the navy in order to impress the girl and her father. Stationed in the fictitious kingdom of Khairpura-Bhandanna, he rescues Davis (whose yacht has also arrived there) from the villainous maharajah (Dick Sutherland) and his army of sword-wielding warriors in the film's frantic climax. Safely back aboard their respective ship and yacht, Harold proposes to his girl using semaphore, and she accepts. Originally intended as a two-reel comedy short, A Sailor-Made Man proved popular in previews in a four-reel rough cut and became Lloyd's unintentional first feature-length film.

FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE (1926)
Producer: Harold Lloyd Director: Sam Taylor
Lloyd plays J. Harold Manners, a millionaire playboy who inadvertently contributes to a skid row mission (which is then named in his honor). He meets and falls in love with Hope (Jobyna Ralston), the mission pastor's daughter, when he visits the mission to protest his name being used. Under her influence, Manners makes parishioners out of all the seedy characters and tough men of the neighborhood. When his idle club friends abduct him on his wedding day (believing they are preventing him from making a foolish mistake), Harold (with his inebriated groomsmen in tow) must race back to the mission so as not to miss his own wedding. The race-to-the-rescue sequence that climaxes For Heaven's Sake on the double-decker open-top bus is one of Lloyd's most memorable sequences.

MOVIE CRAZY (1932)
Producer: Harold Lloyd Director: Clyde Bruckman
Harold Lloyd's best sound film has him portraying Harold Hill, a small-town Kansas rube who dreams of making it in the movies. Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Harold manages to wreak havoc as soon as he steps off the train. He falls in love with a beautiful Spanish actress, failing to recognize that she is the same young woman, without makeup and wig, who later gives him a ride home in the rain. Mary Sears (Constance Cummings) keeps the two identities concealed from Harold and has him play the fool. Harold the lamb turns into Harold the lion in the film's elaborate fight sequence on the set of a flooding boat in the film's memorable climax. The film is also notable for the comedy sequence of Harold unknowingly wearing a magician's coat at a formal dinner party, causing chaos with the small creatures that emerge from his jacket sleeves.

WELCOME DANGER (1929)
Producer: Harold Lloyd Director: Clyde Bruckman
Lloyd plays botanist Harold Bledsoe, who is summoned to San Francisco where his late father had once been chief of police. His father's colleagues desperately hope he is a chip off the old block and take the extreme measure of making him police chief to thwart the flourishing crime of the Chinatown underground led by the Dragon (Charles Middleton). Despite his lack of experience, as well as botanical and female (Barbara Kent) distractions, Harold nevertheless corners the Dragon and forces him to confess his crimes in front of the entire police force. Harold's first sound motion picture was also his greatest commercial success. However, Lloyd was uneasy about the quality of the film in later years; he believed that the film-at 12 reels-was far too long for a comedy.

THE FRESHMAN (1925)
Producer: Harold Lloyd Directors: Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer. Harold Lloyd's most popular comedy is arguably his funniest film. It was also his most commercially successful silent comedy feature. Harold plays college freshman Harold Lamb who longs to be the Big Man on Campus. His metamorphous from college zero to college hero in the climactic football game is one of the high points of silent film comedy.

Short films: Bumping Into Broadway, Ask Father, Billy Blazes Esq, Now or Never, High and Dizzy, Get Out And Under, Never Weaken, Haunted Spooks, By the Sad Sea Waves, The Marathon, Just Neighbors, Captain Kidd's Kids, An Eastern Westerner. World of Comedy, Funny Side of Life.

World of Comedy (1962)
Hilarious scenes from his silent and sound films as compiled and produced by Harold Lloyd himself.

Funny Side of Life (1963)
A compilation of clips selected by Harold Lloyd that highlight his career.

Harold Lloyd was one of the great comic stars of the cinema, a genius on a par with Chaplin and Keaton. Born in Burchard, Nebraska, on April 20, 1893 Lloyd was acting at an early age with theatrical repertory companies. He made his film debut as an extra in a 1913 one-reel film for the Edison Film Company. He became friends with another extra, Hal Roach, and when Roach formed his own film company, he invited Lloyd to join him. Lloyd's initial comic characterization was a tramp character called Willie Work. After a series of partings over money and subsequent reconciliations, Roach and Lloyd created a new character, called Lonesome Luke, which became very popular. Then Lloyd found the idea that was to become his trademark, and changed him from a good comedian to a major star: the glasses. In doing so, Lloyd created an American archetype, an optimistic and determined go-getter sporting spectacles and a toothy smile.

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