For you Harold Lloyd fans—and those of you who have never seen him) TCM is showing five Harold Lloyd films tonight. I am taping three of them, so for the 90% of you who don’t have access to TCM, I can mail you a video.
I’m a pretty big Lloyd fan, but even I can only watch one at a time. He’s not quite so funny—IMO—as Buster Keaton, but he’s still leagues ahead of that dismal little Cockney, Cholly Cheplin.
. . . Just bumping this, once, on the off-chance that there might be a Harold Lloyd fan on the West Coast . . .
They were showing “Safety Last” at the Silent Movie Theater this weekend, but I was never able to make it. Which is okay, since I’ve seen it a number of times already. Yes, Harold Lloyd fan here on the West Coast! I wrote a paper on Lloyd in college. I wish they’d release his work on DVD. With my next paycheck, I’m getting the Buster Keaton box set! 11 dvds! Woo!
Unfortunately, I don’t get TCM, so maybe I will take you up on your very generous tape offer. Which three are you taping?
Oh, goodie. Meanwhile, for those of us who only get AMC, we get to look forward to the American Movie Classic Mystic Pizza! Followed by…Mystic Pizza again! Followed by the umpteenth screening of Peyton Place for those who didn’t catch it the first 200 times AMC broadcast it.
@&*# Bay Area cable!
For those w/TCM–have tons of fun, dammit!
Wow! You can bet I’m going to try to catch this tonight. Harold’s my hero.
There’s a mural on the side of a record store here in Austin (it used to be a theater). On the mural there are scenes of actors from all sorts of old movies- and one of them has Harold hanging from a pipe (rather than a clock hand). Everytime I drive past, I have to say. “Hang in there, Harold.”
Eve, you just posted this so you can gloat, didn’t you?
I love Lloyd. When I was younger, I liked him even more than Keaton. While I have come to appreciate Keaton more, I still consider Lloyd the first truly “modern” film comedian. I once drove 300 miles to hear him lecture at UCLA and explain how he did many of his stunts and his theory on the laugh curve, and a whole bunch of other things. He was amazing.
One has to wonder what he could have done with ten functioning digits on his hands.
Well, since we don’t get TCM out here in the wilds of rural Colorado, I’ll just pout. Enjoy one for me, OK?
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Damn, thanks for rubbing it in Eve. I am more disgusted with my cable provider. The prices keep going up and it is getting less and less worth keeping.
I like Harold Lloyd a lot, but we don’t really get TCM in Canada. We do, however, get TBS, which tonight is showing “Renegades” after the Atlanta Braves game. If you’re serious about the video, let me know. If you’re just gloating, my turn to gloat will come when “Another 48 Hours” is on TBS two days from now. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw.
I watched Safety Last, and taped Girl Shy and Hot Water (both 1924) and The Kid Brother (1927). I want to watch those myself, but in a few weeks I’ll be happy to mail that video off to any Harold fans who want it. Ask Ukulele Ike or Cajun Man for my e-dress.
I once went to a showing of Safety Last in London with a live orchestral score, and it remains one of my favourite memories of the cinema. The live score was much more of an enhancement of the experience than I had expected. Harold (and Safety Last in particular) has remained my favourite silent comedian ever since, probably on the strength of that one night alone. Still love that movie