Movie Crazy '32-Portage Theatre, Chicago: March 23rd,2011

[Eric Cohen]

7:30 pm Weds.
35mm print courtesy of The Harold Lloyd Estate (bless 'em)

http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org

[silentfilm]

http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org/

Wednesday 3/23: “Movie Crazy” at the Portage Theater
Posted on March 17, 2011 by julian
Join us this Wednesday 3/23 for Harold Lloyd in MOVIE CRAZY
35mm print restored by UCLA for the Harold Lloyd Foundation!
The Portage Theater – 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave – 7:30 – $5.00 per ticket

March 23rd, 2011
MOVIE CRAZY
Clyde Bruckman • 1932
After two earlier attempts to transition into sound, Harold Lloyd made what would prove to be his best “talkie.” Harold Hall is a small-town boy with silver-screen fantasies, but it is only by an accident that he makes it to a sound stage at Planet Studios. He meets Mary (Constance Cummings), an enigmatic actress with a strange desire to test Harold’s loyalty. The film successfully weaves the silent comedy technique of visual gags into a sound film. Harold’s screen test, a clever use of verbal humor, turns into a parody of the dramatic stars of early talkies. The film’s climax on a movie set, with an eerie lack of background music, is one of the many highlights. Though Clyde Bruckman is credited, Lloyd claims to have directed most of the picture himself. Determined this time to have a strong script, Lloyd secured the services of Broadway playwright Vincent Lawrence to write the screenplay. (MH)
Print from the Harold Lloyd Estate, special thanks to Bonnie Marshall.
81 min • Harold Lloyd Corp. • 35mm

Short: Battle of the Century (Clyde Bruckman, 1927) Rare restored print on 16mm