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Cast verified as complete
| Harold Lloyd | ... |
Harold Bledsoe
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| Barbara Kent | ... |
Billie Lee
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| Noah Young | ... |
Officer Patrick Clancy
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| Charles Middleton | ... |
John Thorne aka The Dragon
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| Will Walling | ... |
Police Captain Walton
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| Grady Sutton | ... |
Man at Party (silent version) (scenesDeleted)
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| Brooks Benedict | ... |
Handcuffed Prisoner at Police Station (uncredited)
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| Eddy Chandler | ... |
Cop (uncredited)
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Rae Daggett | ... |
Woman Sitting in Police Station (uncredited)
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Douglas Haig | ... |
Buddy Lee (uncredited)
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| Edgar Kennedy | ... |
SFPD Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
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Tetsu Komai | ... |
Florist Henchman (uncredited)
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Wang Lee | ... |
Chinaman with Queue (uncredited)
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James B. Leong | ... |
Florist Henchman / High Priest (uncredited)
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| Jim Mason | ... |
Barry Steele / Dick the Dude (uncredited)
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| Nelson McDowell | ... |
1st Train Passenger (uncredited)
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Soo Hoo Sun | ... |
Dead Chinese Man (uncredited)
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James Wang | ... |
Dr. Chang Gow (uncredited)
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| Blue Washington | ... |
Thorne's Black Henchman (uncredited)
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| Leo Willis | ... |
Cop (uncredited)
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Directed by
| Clyde Bruckman | ||
| Malcolm St. Clair | ... | (uncredited) |
Written by
| Paul Gerard Smith | ... | (dialogue) |
| Felix Adler | ... | (story) & |
| Lex Neal | ... | (story) & |
| Clyde Bruckman | ... | (story) |
| Harold Lloyd | ... | () (uncredited) |
Produced by
| Suzanne Lloyd Hayes | ... | executive producer |
| Harold Lloyd | ... | producer (uncredited) |
| Jeffrey Vance | ... | producer |
Cinematography by
| Henry N. Kohler | ... | (photographed by) |
| Walter Lundin | ... | (photographed by) |
Editing by
| Bernard W. Burton | ... | (as Bernard Burton) |
| Carl Himm | ... | film editor |
Art Direction by
| Liell K. Vedder | ||
Production Management
| John L. Murphy | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Gaylord Lloyd | ... | assistant director (as Gaylord F. Lloyd) |
Sound Department
| Cecil Bardwell | ... | sound technician |
| Lodge Cunningham | ... | sound technician |
| George D. Ellis | ... | sound (uncredited) |
Stunts
| Jake Jacoby | ... | stunt double: Harold Lloyd (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Anderson Bardwell | ... | electrician (uncredited) |
Music Department
| C. Bakaleinikoff | ... | musical arrangement (as Bakaleinikoff) |
Additional Crew
| William R. Fraser | ... | general manager: Harold Lloyd Corporation |
| William MacDonald | ... | technical director |
| James H. Anderson | ... | production assistant (uncredited) |
| Roy Brooks | ... | assistant: Mr. Lloyd (uncredited) |
| Tom Gubbins | ... | production assistant (uncredited) |
| Jack Wagner | ... | gag man (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Paramount Pictures (1929) (United States) (theatrical) (A Paramount Release)
- Famous-Lasky Film Service (1929) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Paramount British Pictures (1929) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Famous-Lasky Film Service (1929) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Film AB Paramount (1930) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Filmaktieselskapet Paramount (1930) (Norway) (theatrical)
- Filmaktieselskabet Paramount (1930) (Denmark) (theatrical)
- Paramount-Films (1930) (Finland) (theatrical)
- Paramount Filmes (1931) (Portugal) (theatrical)
- Universal Pictures Finland (2008) (Finland) (DVD) (10-disc Harold Lloyd: The Definitive Collection)
- Kinowelt Home Entertainment (2010) (Germany) (DVD) (Harold Lloyd Edition)
- The Criterion Channel (2019) (United States) (tv) (digital)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Cinema Studio Supply (lighting equipment)
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation (funding provided by)
- UCLA Film and Television Archive (restored by: Welcome Danger has been)
- Western Electric (sound recording)
Storyline
| Plot Summary |
The San Francisco Police Department is receiving bad press for not being able to control the illegal activities in Chinatown, especially that of an unknown figure named "The Dragon", who leads a dope ring and commits tong murders. As such, Captain Walton of the 3rd Division, which is Chinatown's jurisdiction, decides to call in Harold Bledsoe, the son of the former renowned and now deceased police chief, Jim Bledsoe, to assist in the investigation, despite the Captain not knowing anything about Harold. Harold ends up being nothing like his father, Harold being a bespectacled, fussbudget of a man who meddles in everything he comes across, and who focuses on his fascinations in life, it currently being primarily horticulture. Upon his arrival at the 3rd Division, Harold has a new fascination, namely fingerprinting, he trying to get fingerprints for whoever he meets. Using this new fascination, the rank and file in the 3rd Division are able to send Harold on a wild goose chase in Chinatown, solely to get them out of his hair. But in doing so, they are unwittingly sending him into the middle of the activities of The Dragon. Harold ends up navigating through the mysteries of Chinatown with a sidekick, beat cop Patrick Clancy, who may be Harold's one admirer within the force. But rooting out The Dragon takes on special meaning for Harold when it affects him personally, namely in a boy named Buddy Lee no longer being able to undergo experimental treatment to repair his knee, which conventional western medicine cannot fix. Buddy came to San Francisco with a relative, a slightly scatterbrained young woman named Billie Lee, who Harold met while traveling to San Francisco, the two who fell in love despite their less than inauspicious first encounters. Written by Huggo |
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| Taglines | Action! Thrills! Love! A masterpiece of Lloyd fooling. The world-famous comedian adds words to his action-and how! Here's the greatest talkomedy entertainment ever! (Print Ad-Granby Leader-Mail,((Granby, PQ)) 27 December 1929) See more » |
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Box Office
| Budget | $979,828 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
| Trivia | Began shooting as a silent in August, 1928 at Metropolitan Studios, it would become an agonizingly long and complicated production. It was finally released on October 12, 1929 as a talkie after largely being re-shot with another director - Clyde Bruckman as a talkie (marking the first time Lloyd worked from a script) and painstakingly edited down from an original 16-reels (some 2 hours and forty-five minutes) to 12-reels. The silent version cost $521,000 and another $281,000 was spent on the sound negative. While the novelty of hearing Lloyd speak made it his largest grossing hit since The Freshman (1925), those steep production costs resulted in a huge drop in net profits from his earlier features. See more » |
| Goofs | In many of the dubbed scenes, the voices are out of synchronization with the actors' lip movements. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Featured in Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Billie See more » |
| Quotes |
Billie Lee:
I just put my foot in the wrong place. Harold Bledsoe: Oh, you did. Well, if you do it again, I'll put my foot in the right place! See more » |