.... that's how he happens to finish up clutching on to a girder that is swinging around on a skyscraper building site. He thinks his girl doesn't love him anymore and gets the idea from a newspaper article about a loveless man who takes his own life. First he turns to poison but that tastes yuckky (even with the loads of sugar he puts in his glass), then he resorts to knives but they can cut you and the sight of blood makes Harold weak!!! Then he finds a gun....
The sheer inventiveness is just dazzling. Apart from the spectacle of Harold, just one step away from a fall to oblivion, he is also blindfolded at first. He hears a child playing a harp and thinks he has gone to heaven, he lifts up his blindfold and sees a carved angel but then he hears a Dixieland jazz band and wonders where he is!!!
The first gag sequence is more conventional Lloyd as Harold tries to muster up patients for the doctor next door whose business is going so badly he has to let Harold's girl (Mildred Davis), who is his receptionist, go. Harold finds an acrobat who he gets to do pratfalls in front of a group of elderly people, Harold steps in, gives him a chiropractic workout and hands out the doctor's cards when amazed people think he is actually cured. The fun starts when Harold mistakes a real accident for his friend (who has taken off).
This is just a superb comedy - one of Lloyd's earliest experiments in stunting and where would a Harold Lloyd comedy be without a marvelous score by Robert Israel!!
The sheer inventiveness is just dazzling. Apart from the spectacle of Harold, just one step away from a fall to oblivion, he is also blindfolded at first. He hears a child playing a harp and thinks he has gone to heaven, he lifts up his blindfold and sees a carved angel but then he hears a Dixieland jazz band and wonders where he is!!!
The first gag sequence is more conventional Lloyd as Harold tries to muster up patients for the doctor next door whose business is going so badly he has to let Harold's girl (Mildred Davis), who is his receptionist, go. Harold finds an acrobat who he gets to do pratfalls in front of a group of elderly people, Harold steps in, gives him a chiropractic workout and hands out the doctor's cards when amazed people think he is actually cured. The fun starts when Harold mistakes a real accident for his friend (who has taken off).
This is just a superb comedy - one of Lloyd's earliest experiments in stunting and where would a Harold Lloyd comedy be without a marvelous score by Robert Israel!!