Harold Lloyd finds a sputtering Infernal Device -- you recall the black-ball-with-a-fuse sort of bomb that anarchists used to throw in the editorial cartoons? -- and then follows Bebe Daniels to a combination bootleg beer parlor/anarchist-death-cult cub set in a funhouse.Typical high-speed antics ensue under the direction of Alf Goulding.
Lloyd dropped Lonesome Luke and came up with the Glasses character so he wouldn't be limited to hard-knock slapstick... and then continued to do hard-knock slapstick for a while. Sometimes it didn't work, but here it does, since Harold gets to be a marginally sane character in this insane, cartoony world. It's almost as if he is performing a burlesque of the form and the result, while utterly heartless, gets carried along by its high-speed mania.
The copy I saw had French and Spanish titles.
Lloyd dropped Lonesome Luke and came up with the Glasses character so he wouldn't be limited to hard-knock slapstick... and then continued to do hard-knock slapstick for a while. Sometimes it didn't work, but here it does, since Harold gets to be a marginally sane character in this insane, cartoony world. It's almost as if he is performing a burlesque of the form and the result, while utterly heartless, gets carried along by its high-speed mania.
The copy I saw had French and Spanish titles.