Harold Lloyd (second left).     Photo: Silent Era low-res collection.

Cast: Harold Lloyd [Harold Bledsoe], Barbara Kent [Billie Lee], Noah Young [Clancy], Charles Middleton [John Thorne], William Walling [Captain Walton], James Wang [Dr. Gow], Douglas Haig [Roy], Nelson MacDowell, Edgar Kennedy, James Mason, Eddy Chandler, Tetsu Komai, James B. Leong, Leo Willis, E.H. Calvert, Wang Lee, Soo Hoo Sun

The Harold Lloyd Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Harold Lloyd. Screenplay by Felix Adler, Lex Neal and Clyde Bruckman with dialogue by Paul Gerard Smith. Art direction by Liell K. Vedder. Songs by Lynn Cowan and Paul Titsworth. Technical direction by William MacDonald. Assistant director Gaylord F. Lloyd. Cinematography by Walter Lundin and Henry Kohler. Sound recording supervision by George Ellis; sound recording by Cecil Bardwell and Lodge Cunningham. Music arrangements by Bakaleinikoff. / © 20 October 1929. Released 12 October 1929. Sound version length 10,297 feet; silent version (of final sound film, with titles) 10,796 feet. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound. / The production was shot by St. Clair as a silent, then extensively reshot as a sound film by Bruckman. Premiered at nearly three hours, cut before release to present length. [?] Parish-Gangster p. 409 lists the film’s length as 9955 feet. / Full-sound film.

Comedy.

Survival Status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm preservation positive].

Keywords: Fingerprints - Police: Police chiefs, Policemen - Synchronized sound film - USA: California: San Francisco

Listing updated: 2 November 2004.

References: Brownlow-Parade p. 467; Dardis-Keaton p. 184; Kerr-Silent p. 336; Parish-Gangster p. 409; Reilly-Lloyd pp. xiv-xv; Shipman-Cinema p. 104; Skretvedt-LaurelHardy p. 189; Sweeney-Coming pp. 134, 140 : ClasIm-220 p. 43 : Website-Lloyd.