A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Harold Lloyd (left) and Noah Young (center). Photograph: Photofest; courtesy The San Francisco Silent Film Festival.

Cast: Harold Lloyd [J. Harold Manners, the uptown boy], Jobyna Ralston [Hope, the downtown girl], Noah Young [Bull Brindle, the roughneck], James Mason [the gangster], Paul Weigel [Brother Paul, the optimist]; Blanche Payson [lady on street], Oscar Smith [James, the chauffeur], Dick Rush [policeman], Robert Dudley [Harold’s secretary], Charles Sullivan [boxer in pool hall], Constantine Romanoff [mug], Leo Willis [the mug who gets kicked], Jack Herrick [the mug in a straw hat], Earl Mohan [a tramp], Richard Daniels [a tramp], Francis Gasport

The Harold Lloyd Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Release]. / Produced by Harold Lloyd. From a screen story by John Grey, Ted Wilde and Clyde Bruckman. Art direction by Liell K. Vedder. General manager, William R. Fraser. Production management by John L. Murphy. Assistant director, Robert A. Golden. Technical direction by William MacDonald. Cinematography by Walter Lundin. Camera assistant, Henry N. Kohler. Film editor, Allen McNeil. Intertitles written by Ralph Spence. / © 6 April 1926 by The Harold Lloyd Corporation [LP22577]. Premiered 4 April 1926 in New York, New York. Released 5 April 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: African-Americans - Chases - Construction - Hats: Straw - Police: Policemen - Railroads: Locomotives, Railroad tracks, Train tracks - Sand - Signage - Street scenes - Tobacco: Cigarettes, Cigarette holders - Transportation: Automobiles, Trains - Watches - Water - Weapons: Guns

Listing updated: 29 April 2023.

References: Brownlow-Parade pp. 467, 471; Dardis-Keaton p. 126; Kerr-Silent pp. 192-193, 198, 200, 202, 204; Reilly-Lloyd pp. xiv-xv, 4; Sweeney-Coming p. 102; Vermilye-Twenties p. 163 : ClasIm-220 p. 43 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb; Website-Lloyd.

Home video: DVD.