A checkered cap falsely identifies Harold Lloyd as a thief in this early "Glasses" short.
That cap is the only linkage in this short subject. Although he had abandoned the Lonesome Luke character in favor of the more normal-looking one because it would allow him to tell a greater variety of stories, here he was, still engaged in hard-knock slapstick. Lloyd would continue to appear in those on and off through 1919, although other films, some with actual plots, would appear. Apparently the raw free-for-alls were popular.
The director of this short was, like Lloyd himself, not someone who started out in comedy, but entered the film comedy field because it seemed at times either that or cowboy movies. He appeared in a few early shorts, but made the transition to behind the camera. He worked mostly at Roach for fifteen years, with occasional moonlighting gigs elsewhere, including retakes for Selznick and writing for Jules White's unit at Columbia. He died in 1954 at age 62.
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