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6.8/10
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An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
William Gillespie
- Naval Officer in Dream Sequence
- (uncredited)
Fred Guiol
- Enlistee
- (uncredited)
Wally Howe
- Doctor
- (uncredited)
Gus Leonard
- Lawyer
- (uncredited)
Augustina López
- Cigar-Smoking Woman at Bazaar
- (uncredited)
Jobyna Ralston
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Sybil Seely
- Harem Girl
- (uncredited)
Charles Stevenson
- Recruiting Officer
- (uncredited)
Molly Thompson
- Girls Mother
- (uncredited)
Leo Willis
- Recruiting Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBoth Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach would haul the initial cuts of their films to theaters on the outskirts of Los Angeles for unannounced test screenings. They would gauge the reactions of these audiences to individual scenes and recut the films accordingly. This film was unusual in that it was conceived as a 2-reel short, but the 4-reel (just over 40 minutes) first cut tested so strongly with the audience, they were loathe to cut any of it. By audience default, it accidentally became his first feature-length comedy.
- GoofsWhen the Maharajah locks The Girl in a room, the door handle is on the left side. The camera then cuts to a shot of The Girl inside the room on the other side of the door, and that handle is also on the left side. The handle can't be on the left side of both sides of a door.
- Quotes
Title Card: ABINGTON ARMS - An ultra fashionable summer resort overlooking the bluff _ And there's a lot of it to overlook.
- ConnectionsFeatured in American Masters: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989)
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It's the Abington Arms, an ultra fashionable summer resort. The Boy (Harold Lloyd) is an idle rich heir to $20 million. He falls for The Girl (Mildred Davis) who is pursued by many suitors. Her steel magnate father demands that he go do something worthwhile like getting a job. He decides to join the Navy.
This is a fun Harold Lloyd film with his classic bespectacled everyman. It doesn't have his building climbing exploits but it does have some slapstick and general physical humor. An extra does some nice magic tricks. It's a fun 45 minutes.
This is a fun Harold Lloyd film with his classic bespectacled everyman. It doesn't have his building climbing exploits but it does have some slapstick and general physical humor. An extra does some nice magic tricks. It's a fun 45 minutes.
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- Nov 14, 2021
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- Budget
- $77,315 (estimated)
- Runtime47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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