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During the 1920s, Harold Lloyd was the most successful film comedian...with ticket sales surpassing Keaton and Chaplin. His 1920s movies were amazingly well crafted, funny and often quite sweet. However, during the 1910s, Lloyd made tons of film...shorts which were incredibly different from his 20s films. Instead of being sweet, Lloyd's characters tended to be jerks and the film tended to rely on a lot of slapstick. These earlier films just don't hold up so well today. And, while Lloyd adopted the everyman look in the late 1910s which would be so familiar to his 20s bespectacled look, the films were often a bit mean-spirited and less fun to watch. "I'm on My Way" is no exception to this 1910s Lloyd, though it still is quite watchable.

When the story begins, Lloyd is about to get married. But his wife insists on picking up a few small things from the store....and they leave with HUGE stacks of boxes. In order to help carry them, Lloyd torments and briefly enslaves a small man and forces him to do the carrying!

Later, his neighbor (Snub Pollard) wants to encourage him to marry and enjoy married life....and so he introduces Harold to his loving family. However, the family ends up being god-awful and the kids misbehave is a ridiculous fashion that simply is more slapstick than anything else. In fact, so much of the film isn't story or character driven...it's all a lot of violence and heartlessness...some of which is funny, some of which isn't.

On his wedding day, nervous Harold Lloyd is one minute and four seconds late for a pre-nuptial meeting with impatient bride-to-be Bebe Daniels. Ms. Daniels scolds Mr. Lloyd, and persuades him to buy her "a few things" in a nearby store. After an hour of shopping, Daniels wants to go home for a frock change, leaving Lloyd to manage her towering purchases. Lloyd's method of getting the packages to Daniels' home is the highlight of "I'm on My Way". While Daniels dons a new outfit, Lloyd spends some time with neighbor "Snub" Pollard, who has been "married so long he has lost all sense of pain." Mr. Pollard's bugling family and noisy neighbors give Lloyd second thoughts about going through with his own wedding plans.

**** I'm on My Way (3/9/19) Hal Roach ~ Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels

Lloyd delivers charisma and charm in great supply through his characterization. He pushes himself as a serious actor that can do comedy rather than just being a comedian. He is a likable character, playing the part with concentration and a warm smile.

This interesting old movie offers some sage advice about tying "The knot". The early scenes where Lloyd improvises and "cart" to carry his intended's packages is amusing and need not elicit gasps compared to todays high energy romps with violence and fast action, and split second decisions.

The decisions in this film are split second for the time and rely on human interaction NOT technology mindless obeyance of the three laws of Natural motion. Here Lloyd as the lead character is interacting with other people and able to influence and be influenced by them. For me as a person who is best at tasks and maintaining focus, this movie shows the fun children get when involved in this group participation, and how distracted Adults can be in these situations. When the young interact it can be manipulative due to inexperience, and not the adult style of malicious. This movie made me remember when My family was together when I was young and how we interacted, how any of us kids got married and moved on when we were EVEN more rambunctious is beyond me. Yet watching this film it reminded me how fun it was to interact, but now I share over this screen instead of in Person. VERY entertaining and charming.

Harold Lloyd's character loves Bebe Daniels' character and is about to marry her.But then he meets the clan of Snub Pollard where it's a riot all the time.He doesn't dream of marriage so much anymore.I'm on My Way is a Harold Lloyd short comedy from 1919.It's 15 minutes of quite amusing gags.It's funny when Harold carried all those boxes Bebe has bought and he puts them over this little man.It's a lot of fun to watch when Harold goes to neighbor Snub's household where he gets his hands full of dough.And it's quite hilarious when Harold sees some future visions as a married man.Not the best Lloyd, but very entertaining.A print of this film survives in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art.