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HIGH AND DIZZY |
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Pathé, 1920. Directed by
Hal Roach. Camera: Walter Lundin. With
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wallace Howe, Frank Terry, Charles E.
Stevenson, William Gillespie, Gaylord Lloyd, Noah Young, Charles Bilkey,
Sammy Brooks, Charles Holmes, Mark Jones, Bertha Kennepohl, M.S. Lacey,
Oscar Larson, Chase Thorne, Mrs. Haddix, Albert Wilding, Jean Pamm, Harry
Blanchard, Harry Gerardin, Casey Jones, Margaret Guthrie, Katharine Guthrie,
Jeanie Erwin. |
Harold Hall is a medical doctor, who has had so few patients of late
that his phone has developed spider webs. When Mildred and her
father enter, Harold is enthusiastic. Her father explains that
his daughter has bouts of sleepwalking, and Harold vows to help,
having become
quite smitten with the Girl.
Later, Harold visits his friend Roy, who boasts about his
home-brewing contraption, and offers Harold a sample. When all
his stashed bottles begin to pop their corks, Roy and Harold "save"
the brew by finishing all 44 pints. They stumble out of the
office and, after some antics with the law, go back to their room.
Harold has a humorous encounter with a mirror, a puppy in a hat and,
finally, a sleepwalking Mildred.
After the two meet on the building ledge, Mildred wakes up in
Harold's bed. A suddenly sober Harold, determined to make the
mistaken arrangement legal, proposes to Mildred. She accepts,
prompting Harold to promise to build them a single-story home.
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The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia,
by Annette D'Agostino Lloyd
McFarland & Company, Inc.,
Jefferson,
NC and London, 2004 |
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