Harold Lloyd babysits on a speeding train. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Acting
Lloyd's physical comedy—every flinch and double-take is calculated perfection.
Direction
Roach/Newmeyer squeeze maximum chaos into minimum runtime.
Practical Effects
Real train stunts that would give modern insurance lawyers nightmares.
Director
Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd
The Boy
Mildred Davis
The Girl
Anna Mae Bilson
The Lonesome Little Child
Sammy Brooks
Short Man on Train (uncredited)
William Gillespie
The Child's Daddy (uncredited)
Wally Howe
Sheriff of Teetersburg (uncredited)
Charles Stevenson
Conductor (uncredited)
Noah Young
Farm Owner (uncredited)
Mark Jones
Passenger who throws shoe (uncredited)
Norma Nichols
The Child’s Mother (uncredited)
Charles Force
Angry man in bathroom (uncredited)
Vera White
Flirting woman in bathroom (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Harold Lloyd performed most of his own stunts despite having lost two fingers in a 1919 prop bomb accident—he wore a prosthetic glove with realistic fingers for close-ups.
This was part of Lloyd's shift from wild 'Lonesome Luke' characters to his signature 'Glasses' persona—an ordinary everyman audiences could project themselves onto, making his peril feel personal rather than cartoonish.
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