CitizenCaine Review of Bumping Into Broadway

Bumping Into Broadway (1919)

Zany Harold Lloyd Frantically Looks For Rent Money

[6/10 · 29 September 2008]

Zany Harold Lloyd, who is always willing to help out a pretty girl, helps Bebe Daniels pay her rent at a boarding house, and Harold soon finds himself on the outs with his landlady and her assistant because he has no money to pay for himself. Harold runs around trying to avoid both, back and forth and up and down the stairs. He gets reeled in by a homely looking woman (played by Gus Leonard) underneath his room when he tries escaping out the window. Later he hits the jack pot gambling in a speak-easy, which is soon raided by the police. Chaos ensues as Harold must shake the cops and rescue Bebe Daniels from an overenthusiastic masher. During the chases, Harold finds imaginative ways to elude the police, like utilizing a coat rack several times. It's a fast paced fun farce. **1/2 of 4 stars.