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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 re-cut 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 test 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)
Featured review
a decent early Lloyd feature
While this film isn't really as long as most feature films, it is longer than a short and really falls in between the two types of films in length.
This film was remade three years later as WHY WORRY? though there were some changes made in the plot--enough that I recommend you see both. However the overall themes and plot elements are interchangeable. In both he's a rich guy who needs to grow up and be more industrious, and in both he ultimately rescues his lady while in a foreign land. In WHY WORRY? the setting was a revolution on a South American island and in this film it was a Muslim nation and its leader who kidnaps the lady to put her in his harem.
The general direction of the plot is pure Lloyd formula--wimpy guy meets girl and somehow rises to the occasion to fight for and win her. This is nicely made but not exactly different from many of his other films in this sense. It's worth seeing, but other films such as THE FRESHMAN, GIRL SHY and SPEEDY are better Lloyd vehicles.
This film was remade three years later as WHY WORRY? though there were some changes made in the plot--enough that I recommend you see both. However the overall themes and plot elements are interchangeable. In both he's a rich guy who needs to grow up and be more industrious, and in both he ultimately rescues his lady while in a foreign land. In WHY WORRY? the setting was a revolution on a South American island and in this film it was a Muslim nation and its leader who kidnaps the lady to put her in his harem.
The general direction of the plot is pure Lloyd formula--wimpy guy meets girl and somehow rises to the occasion to fight for and win her. This is nicely made but not exactly different from many of his other films in this sense. It's worth seeing, but other films such as THE FRESHMAN, GIRL SHY and SPEEDY are better Lloyd vehicles.
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- planktonrules
- May 14, 2006
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- Budget
- $77,315 (estimated)
- Runtime47 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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