The Kid Brother finds Harold Lloyd cast precisely as that, the youngest and least of three brothers of the local sheriff in a family that seems as competitive as the Kennedys. One shudders to think about the casualties if the Hickorys ever got to playing touch football.
A carnival comes to town which is nominally run by Jobyna Ralston who was a poor man's Mary Pickford. Actually some of the less scrupulous carnival types are running it in her name. She gets Harold Lloyd to sign the carnival permit thinking he's the sheriff and in fact he does have the same name, Lloyd's just a junior.
Like his friends Chaplin and Keaton, Lloyd is bumbling klutz for whom nothing goes right for seven reels, but then in the last reel Lloyd comes alive and shows some inner resourcefulness. Here he has to find the money that was robbed from the town fund collected for the building of a dam. The townsfolk think Lloyd's father did it as he was the custodian of the funds.
By the way check out that makeshift raft that Harold Lloyd has in the final scene in which the chief crook is actually a part of the construction.
The Kid Brother proves his worth to his family and for the audience its worth at the box office.
A carnival comes to town which is nominally run by Jobyna Ralston who was a poor man's Mary Pickford. Actually some of the less scrupulous carnival types are running it in her name. She gets Harold Lloyd to sign the carnival permit thinking he's the sheriff and in fact he does have the same name, Lloyd's just a junior.
Like his friends Chaplin and Keaton, Lloyd is bumbling klutz for whom nothing goes right for seven reels, but then in the last reel Lloyd comes alive and shows some inner resourcefulness. Here he has to find the money that was robbed from the town fund collected for the building of a dam. The townsfolk think Lloyd's father did it as he was the custodian of the funds.
By the way check out that makeshift raft that Harold Lloyd has in the final scene in which the chief crook is actually a part of the construction.
The Kid Brother proves his worth to his family and for the audience its worth at the box office.