Paramount Pictures
Directed by Clyde Bruckman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, New Line Home Entertainment)
Timid shoe salesman Harold Lloyd takes a mail-order personality course. He unknowingly falls in love with the boss's daughter. He talks his way on to a cruise ship to impress the girl, but then has to find a way to survive as a stowaway. Discovered, he makes a getaway hiding in a mail plane, only to end up trapped on the side of an LA skyscraper. Many of Lloyd's trademarks are present: the crazy high altitude stunts, a hair-raising stare down with a gorilla, the shy boy-girl relationship... but something does not quite translate from silents to talkies. Maybe it's his squeaky voice, or maybe now that he's older the juvenile relationship with the girl is just plain silly. It's still entertaining, but Lloyd's brand of comedy is clearly a casualty of the arrival of sound in the movies.
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