Saturday, July 5, 2014

Movie Crazy (1932)


Paramount Pictures
Directed by Clyde Bruckman
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, New Line Home Entertainment)

Naive Kansan Harold Lloyd sends in the wrong photo to a Hollywood producer. He travels to California for a screen test which is unintentionally hilarious. He falls in love with actress Constance Cummings, but it takes a while for her to warm up to his chronic clumsiness. He has to fight for her in a climactic scene which takes place on a stage set. A couple of scenes had me laughing more than any Lloyd silent, but the classic scene in which he wears a magician's coat during a formal dance is more clever than funny.

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