Producer: Harold Lloyd. Copyright 6 April 1926 by The Harold Lloyd Corporation, released through Paramount Pictures: 5 April 1926. New York opening at the Rialto: 4 April 1926. 6 reels. 5,356 feet. 58 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Millionaire inadvertently helps out Mission and falls in love with the Good Samaritan's lovely daughter. His friends try to bring him to his senses.
COMMENT: I know it's hard to keep laughing heartily when you're balancing hard on the edge of your seat, but if you can manage that feat, "For Heaven's Sake" is right for you.
Another absolute delight from Lloyd, this entry features yet another hilariously spectacular variation on his famous street rescue climaxes.
Good to see Joby Ralston from "The Freshman" again essaying the enchanting heroine, and Noah Young, the cop-who-never-forgets from "Safety Last", this time as the bully of all bullies. And it's even better to find Lloyd himself playing so convincingly a character his own age.
The casting director deserves a special pat on the back for rounding up such a seedy-looking bunch of reprobates and down-and- outers for the Mission scenes. The incredibly sharp-paced sequence in which Lloyd manages to round up all these local toughs for the Mission, has to be seen to be believed.
Ralph Spence, the world's highest-paid title-writer ($5 a word), deserved every penny he received for his witty contributions. But the highest honors must go to producer-director-actor Harold Lloyd (who thought up the laugh-a-minute idea in the first place and also made his mark on the script).
SYNOPSIS: Millionaire inadvertently helps out Mission and falls in love with the Good Samaritan's lovely daughter. His friends try to bring him to his senses.
COMMENT: I know it's hard to keep laughing heartily when you're balancing hard on the edge of your seat, but if you can manage that feat, "For Heaven's Sake" is right for you.
Another absolute delight from Lloyd, this entry features yet another hilariously spectacular variation on his famous street rescue climaxes.
Good to see Joby Ralston from "The Freshman" again essaying the enchanting heroine, and Noah Young, the cop-who-never-forgets from "Safety Last", this time as the bully of all bullies. And it's even better to find Lloyd himself playing so convincingly a character his own age.
The casting director deserves a special pat on the back for rounding up such a seedy-looking bunch of reprobates and down-and- outers for the Mission scenes. The incredibly sharp-paced sequence in which Lloyd manages to round up all these local toughs for the Mission, has to be seen to be believed.
Ralph Spence, the world's highest-paid title-writer ($5 a word), deserved every penny he received for his witty contributions. But the highest honors must go to producer-director-actor Harold Lloyd (who thought up the laugh-a-minute idea in the first place and also made his mark on the script).