Directed by:
Ted WildeScreenplay:
Howard Emmett RogersCinematography:
Walter LundinComposer:
Carl DavisCast:
Harold Lloyd, Ernie Adams, Marvin Loback, Brooks Benedict, Ann Christy, Babe Ruth, Jack Perry, Jimmy Dime, Edna Mae Cooper, Bobby Dunn, Walter Hiers, Gus Leonard (more)VOD (1)
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This was comedian Harold Lloyd's last silent film, and one of his most charming. Lloyd's character here is called Harold Speedy Swift, an upbeat young man whose fatal attraction for baseball always causes him to lose his jobs. After his latest firing, he impulsively spends a day at Coney Island with his sweetheart, Jane Dillon (Ann Christy). Ann's grandfather, Pop Dillon (Bert Woodruff), meanwhile, has a dilemma - he runs the last horse-drawn trolley in New York City and the railway magnates desperately want his route. Since Pop won't sell it to them, they plan to get it by underhanded means. Pop must make his rounds at least once every 24 hours, so the magnates hire thugs to stop him. Speedy hears about this plan and, being gainfully unemployed, takes over the route to protect the old man. But the magnates then steal the trolley, and the climax of the film involves Speedy's dash to find the trolley and get it back to its route before the 24 hours are up. He makes it just in time. (Criterion)
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