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Plot

Harold Lloyd's second talkie finds The Bespectacled One playing a shoe clerk in Honolulu. Harboring dreams of becoming an executive, Lloyd passes himself off as a millionaire to heiress Barbara Kent. As the plot merrily rolls along, Harold stows away on a ship bound for the mainland, and ends up at the top of a dizzying skyscraper. In a reversal of his dilemma in 1923's Safety Last, Lloyd must find the safest way to climb down the building--with the dubious assistance of bumbling black janitor Willie Best (here derogatorily billed as "Sleep 'N' Eat"). Attempting to extend his silent-film technique into the talkie era, Harold Lloyd is successful about half the time. The climactic building-climbing sequence, though amusing, pales in comparison to Lloyd's earlier excursions into "high and dizzy" humor.
MPAA Rating:
Not Yet Rated
Genre(s):
Comedy,Romance
Run Time:
85min.
Theatrical Release Date:
06/04/1999
Distributor(s):
Paramount
Director(s):
Clyde Bruckman
Starring:
Harold Lloyd , Robert McWade , Lillian Leighton , Barbara Kent , Alec B. Francis
Keywords:
boating,charade,heir,impersonation,janitor,love,millionaire,mistaken-identity,romance,salesperson,secret-identity,silent,skyscraper