Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
Acting
Lloyd's glasses-wearing everyman revolutionized sympathetic comedy.
Direction
Taylor & Newmeyer build gags with surgical precision.
Practical Effects
All stunts performed by Lloyd—no safety nets, all thrills.
Director
Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd
Dr. 'Jack' Jackson
Mildred Davis
The Sick-Little-Well-Girl
John T. Prince
Charles F. Haskell - Her Father
Eric Mayne
Dr. Ludwig von Saulsbourg
C. Norman Hammond
Jamison - the Lawyer
Jackie Condon
Boy's Pal (uncredited)
Mickey Daniels
Boy Patient (uncredited)
Richard Daniels
Man (uncredited)
William Gillespie
Card Player (uncredited)
Wally Howe
Asylum Guard (uncredited)
James T. Kelley
Card-Playing Father (uncredited)
Charles Stevenson
Asylum Guard (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lloyd performed his own stunts here, as he did in all his films—unlike Chaplin or Keaton, he never used a double.
This film satirized the 1920s sanitarium craze, where wealthy families paid fortunes for dubious rest cures—basically Goop before Gwyneth.
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