An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
Stunts
Harold's skyscraper scaffolding sequence—no safety nets, all real
Acting
Lloyd's everyman charm versus Chaplin's tramp, Keaton's stoneface
Production
Glorious Honolulu location shooting for 1930
Director
Clyde Bruckman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lloyd performed most of his own stunts despite having lost his right thumb and forefinger to a prop bomb explosion in 1919.
One of the last major silent features before talkies dominated; Lloyd's subsequent sound films never matched this kinetic energy.
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