Love hanging coat's performance in this ...
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I'd really like to see one of the gangs from The Warriors pattern their wardrobes off of Harold Lloyd's glasses character. They could dress like a barbershop quartet with their fancy straw hats and call themselves the Safety Lasters, or something ...
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The coat gag never fails to blow my mind
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Bumping into Broadway is Harold Lloyd’s last performance filmed before the infamous accident at a photographer’s studio that August that cost him his right thumb and forefinger. Lloyd had barely recovered enough from the explosion to attend Bumping into Broadway's November premiere.
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Harold Lloyd mastered the jump cut sequences long before Goddard discovered them ...
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@analgesicsleep This must be those "slum areas" they warned us of in "The House in the Middle!
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Everyone in silent era films would lose their minds at the idea of $3K a month rent for a 1br 1bath apartment (utilities not included)
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Here’s a new portrait of Harold Lloyd that I drew for tonight’s Bumping into Broadway screening!
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@analgesicsleep My manual one from the 70s is a clunker, could only imagine how much heft one 50 years older would be!
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The land lady straight up having her tenants beaten over the rent when the walls are absolutely filthy and there’s a full trash can in the hallway is really something
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