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Writers:
Paul Girard Smith (dialogue)
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Release Date:
12 October 1929 (USA) more
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Tagline:
For the First Time! Hear Harold Lloyd Talk
Plot:
Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief... more | add synopsis
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Too long, but still pretty entertaining more (24 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)

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. (as William Walling)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Grady Sutton ... Man at party (silent version) (scenes deleted)
Brooks Benedict ... Handcuffed Prisoner at Police Station (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler ... Cop (uncredited)
Rae Daggett ... Woman sitting in police station (uncredited)
Douglas Haig ... Buddy Lee, Billie's little brother (uncredited)
Edgar Kennedy ... Desk Sergeant SFPD (uncredited)
Tetsu Komai ... Florist-henchman (uncredited)
Wang Lee ... Chinaman with queue (uncredited)
James B. Leong ... Florist-henchman / high priest (uncredited)
Jim Mason ... Barry Steele, aka Dick, the Dude (uncredited)
Nelson McDowell ... First train passenger (uncredited)
Soo Hoo Sun ... Dead Chinese Man (uncredited)
James Wang ... Dr. Chang Gow (uncredited)
Blue Washington ... Thorne's Black Servant-Henchman (uncredited)
Leo Willis ... Cop (uncredited)
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Directed by
Clyde Bruckman 
Malcolm St. Clair (uncredited)
 
Writing credits
Paul Girard Smith (dialogue) (as Paul Gerard Smith)

Felix Adler (story) and
Lex Neal (story) and
Clyde Bruckman (story)

Harold Lloyd  uncredited

Produced by
Suzanne Lloyd Hayes .... executive producer (video release)
Jeffrey Vance .... producer (video release)
Harold Lloyd .... producer (uncredited)
 
Cinematography by
Henry N. Kohler 
Walter Lundin 
 
Film Editing by
Bernard W. Burton 
Carl Himm 
 
Art Direction by
Liell K. Vedder 
 
Production Management
John L. Murphy .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Gaylord Lloyd .... assistant director (as Gaylord F. Lloyd)
 
Sound Department
Cecil Bardwell .... sound technician
Lodge Cunningham .... sound technician
George D. Ellis .... sound (uncredited)
 
Stunts
Jake Jacoby .... stunt double: Harold Lloyd (uncredited)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Anderson Bardwell .... electrician
 
Music Department
C. Bakaleinikoff .... musical arrangement (as Bakaleinikoff)
 
Other crew
William R. Fraser .... general manager: Harold Lloyd Corporation
William MacDonald .... technical director
James H. Anderson .... production assistant (uncredited)
Roy Brooks .... assistant: Mr. Lloyd (uncredited)
Tom Gubbins .... production assistant (uncredited)
 

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Runtime:
115 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

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Originally filmed as a silent feature (directed by Malcolm St. Clair) it was largely re-shot for sound release (directed by Clyde Bruckman). When it was previewed, it was over three hours in length, but cut to under two hours before general release. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In many of the dubbed scenes, the voices are out of synchronization with the actors' lip movements. more
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8 out of 9 people found the following review useful.
Too long, but still pretty entertaining, 18 March 2004
7/10
Author: zetes from Saint Paul, MN

Harold Lloyd's first talkie is an uneasy transitional film between the silent and the sound era. It was originally made to be a silent, and it was re-written, and much of it was re-filmed in order to make it play. What would have been best for the movie would have been to cut out the fat. It goes on for far too long, just five minutes short of two hours, which must have been Lloyd's longest film. And I've read that the original cut was nearly three hours! I love Harold more than anybody, but two hours is a little too much. I couldn't even imagine a longer version. It is a pretty good comedy, though. There are a handful of brilliant comedy bits, and Harold Lloyd, more so than either Keaton or Chaplin, was just as good in his talkies as he was in his silents. There's also a lot of brutal slapstick. That was always a part of Lloyd's work, more than Keaton's or Chaplin's, but not even the Three Stooges are this violent! Harold must brain about thirty people. It is mostly funny – I'll give him that credit – but sometimes I had to give his enemies a sympathy `OUCH!' In the film's very funny finale, Lloyd fights a gigantic black man. To knock him out once and for all, Harold shoves his hand in one of those giant conch shells and clubs the guy on the head several times in a row. OUCH! 7/10.

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