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An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
William Gillespie
- Naval Officer in Dream Sequence
- (uncredited)
Fred Guiol
- Enlistee
- (uncredited)
Wally Howe
- Doctor
- (uncredited)
Gus Leonard
- Lawyer
- (uncredited)
Augustina López
- Cigar-Smoking Woman at Bazaar
- (uncredited)
Jobyna Ralston
- Bit Part
- (uncredited)
Sybil Seely
- Harem Girl
- (uncredited)
Charles Stevenson
- Recruiting Officer
- (uncredited)
Molly Thompson
- Girls Mother
- (uncredited)
Leo Willis
- Recruiting Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBoth Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach would haul the initial cuts of their films to theaters on the outskirts of Los Angeles for unannounced test screenings. They would gauge the reactions of these audiences to individual scenes and re-cut the films accordingly. This film was unusual in that it was conceived as a 2-reel short, but the 4-reel (just over 40 minutes) first cut tested so strongly with the test audience, they were loathe to cut any of it. By audience default, it accidentally became his first feature-length comedy.
- GoofsWhen the Maharajah locks The Girl in a room, the door handle is on the left side. The camera then cuts to a shot of The Girl inside the room on the other side of the door, and that handle is also on the left side. The handle can't be on the left side of both sides of a door.
- Quotes
Title Card: ABINGTON ARMS - An ultra fashionable summer resort overlooking the bluff _ And there's a lot of it to overlook.
- ConnectionsFeatured in American Masters: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989)
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Good Harold Lloyd Comedy
This is one of many funny and entertaining Harold Lloyd comedies that have been somewhat overshadowed by his better-known masterpieces. Certainly, "A Sailor-Made Man" is not on the level of "Safety Last" or "Speedy" or a few others, but it's an enjoyable feature in its own right, with some good material.
The story has a setup that will be familiar to Lloyd fans, with Harold as one of many suitors for the hand of a society girl played by Mildred Davis. Lloyd's character ends up in the Navy, where he meets up with a roughneck played in entertaining fashion by Noah Young. There are some sequences of slapstick aboard ship, and then the main story resumes when Lloyd meets up again with Davis in an exotic port of call.
There are some interesting settings with plenty of good individual gag ideas, and there are a couple of very good sequences. There's a street fight scene, with Lloyd and Young taking on a gang of toughs, that has some clever touches, plus a fun chase sequence in a harem. It doesn't have any of the terrific set pieces that you find in Lloyd's best movies, but it has more than enough to make it entertaining and enjoyable.
The story has a setup that will be familiar to Lloyd fans, with Harold as one of many suitors for the hand of a society girl played by Mildred Davis. Lloyd's character ends up in the Navy, where he meets up with a roughneck played in entertaining fashion by Noah Young. There are some sequences of slapstick aboard ship, and then the main story resumes when Lloyd meets up again with Davis in an exotic port of call.
There are some interesting settings with plenty of good individual gag ideas, and there are a couple of very good sequences. There's a street fight scene, with Lloyd and Young taking on a gang of toughs, that has some clever touches, plus a fun chase sequence in a harem. It doesn't have any of the terrific set pieces that you find in Lloyd's best movies, but it has more than enough to make it entertaining and enjoyable.
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- Snow Leopard
- Dec 16, 2005
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- Budget
- $77,315 (estimated)
- Runtime47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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