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The Harold Lloyd
Comedy Collection
(1919-1936)

Contents: Ask Father (1919), Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919), Bumping into Broadway (1919), From Hand to Mouth (1919), Haunted Spooks (1920), An Eastern Westerner (1920), High and Dizzy (1920), Get Out and Get Under (1920), Number, Please? (1920), Now or Never (1921), Among Those Present (1921), I Do (1921), Never Weaken (1921), A Sailor-Made Man (1921), Grandma’s Boy (1922), Doctor Jack (1922), Safety Last (1923), Why Worry? (1923), Girl Shy (1924), Hot Water (1924), The Freshman (1925), For Heaven’s Sake (1926), The Kid Brother (1927), Speedy (1928), Feet First (1930), Movie Crazy (1932), The Cat’s-Paw (1934) and The Milky Way (1936).

Regretably out-of-print and rapidly flying off retailers’ backstock shelves, this boxset of high-quality editions of Harold Lloyd films has been mastered from source prints that range from very-good to excellent. The boxset contains a fourth bonus disc that is not available separately.

New Line Home Entertainment
2005 DVD edition

The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection (1919-1936), black & white, ? minutes total, not rated,
including Ask Father (1919), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Bumping Into Broadway (1919), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated, From Hand to Mouth (1919), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Haunted Spooks (1920), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, An Eastern Westerner (1920), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, High and Dizzy (1920), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated, Get Out and Get Under (1920), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, Number, Please? (1920), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, Now or Never (1921), black & white, 36 minutes, not rated, Among Those Present (1921), black & white, 35 minutes, not rated, I Do (1921), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, Never Weaken (1921), black & white, 29 minutes, not rated, A Sailor-Made Man (1921), black & white, 47 minutes, not rated, Grandma’s Boy (1922), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated, Doctor Jack (1922), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated, Safety Last (1923), color-toned black & white, 73 minutes, not rated, Why Worry? (1923), black & white, 63 minutes, not rated, Girl Shy (1924), color-toned black & white and black & white, 80 minutes, not rated, Hot Water (1924), black & white, 60 minutes, not rated, The Freshman (1925), black & white, 76 minutes, not rated, For Heaven’s Sake (1926), black & white, 58 minutes, not rated, The Kid Brother (1927), black & white, 82 minutes, not rated, Speedy (1928), black & white, 86 minutes, not rated, Feet First (1930), black & white, 91 minutes, not rated, Movie Crazy (1932), black & white, 96 minutes, not rated, The Cat’s-Paw (1934), black & white, 102 minutes, not rated, and The Milky Way (1936), black & white, 88 minutes, not rated.

New Line Home Entertainment, LW.2.N8445.S,
UPC 7-94043-84452-2, ISBN 0-7806-5288-6.
Four single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound and Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, English and Spanish language subtitles, closed captions, chapter stops; and three dual-sided, dual-layered (side A)/single-layered (side B), Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound and Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, English and Spanish language subtitles, closed captions, chapter stops; four standard DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $89.95.
Release date: 15 November 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This seven-disc DVD boxset is mastered from 35mm restoration prints overseen by The Harold Lloyd Trust, which should represent the best-surviving prints of these 29 Harold Lloyd shorts and feature films. Some of the films are presented with audio commentary by Suzanne Lloyd, Annette Lloyd, Leonard Maltin, Richard Bann and Rich Correll. Musical accompaniment includes scores by Carl Davis.

Also included is the new documentary Harold’s Hollywood: Then and Now (2005), and the featurettes Greenacres and Scoring for Comedy.

cover A seventh bonus disc features interviews and Lloyd home movies, tributes and interviews with family, friends and legendary celebrities including Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, Tab Hunter and director John Landis, a narrative chronology detailing the life and times of Harold Lloyd hosted by Leonard Maltin, video biographies of many of Lloyd’s collaborators and stars of the golden age of cinema, Harold Lloyd’s Academy Award speech, USC’s Delta Kappa Alpha tribute to Harold Lloyd hosted by Jack Lemmon and Steve Allen, a gallery of 3D photos shot by Harold Lloyd (3D glasses included), photo and publicity galleries, radio show appearances by Harold Lloyd, and more.