The only other Harold Lloyd work I've seen is 1923's "Why Worry?" which at sixty three minutes wasn't a film short, so I have no others to judge this one by. As it is, this was an entertaining story with some notable touches, like the name of 'Leech' on a dishonest lawyer's door - no surprise there. The young 'waif' (Peggy Courtwright) was a cutie and her scenes with Lloyd and her pup were well staged, the timing involved in their frantic run-around was done to perfection.
The main story involves a young woman (Mildred Davis) who will inherit a fortune if she can prove her identity by midnight. This leads to her kidnapping and eventual save by 'The Boy' (Lloyd) following a Keystone Cop-like chase sequence, but unless the picture was filmed at one of the Poles where it's daylight for six months at a time, there's no explanation for why it's light outside at the stroke of midnight. My guess is that audiences of the era weren't too fussy about little details like that.
One observation apart from the story itself - ever since I noticed how often one sees Coca-Cola product placement in movies I've kept a watchful eye for it's appearance, and I believe this one sets my all time earliest record to date. There's a large billboard or fence on which the latter half of 'Cola' is visible in the distinctive font style for Coke. For 1919, this beats my previous 'first Coke appearance' by seven years, recently seen in the 1926 Laurel and Hardy short, "Thundering Fleas".
The main story involves a young woman (Mildred Davis) who will inherit a fortune if she can prove her identity by midnight. This leads to her kidnapping and eventual save by 'The Boy' (Lloyd) following a Keystone Cop-like chase sequence, but unless the picture was filmed at one of the Poles where it's daylight for six months at a time, there's no explanation for why it's light outside at the stroke of midnight. My guess is that audiences of the era weren't too fussy about little details like that.
One observation apart from the story itself - ever since I noticed how often one sees Coca-Cola product placement in movies I've kept a watchful eye for it's appearance, and I believe this one sets my all time earliest record to date. There's a large billboard or fence on which the latter half of 'Cola' is visible in the distinctive font style for Coke. For 1919, this beats my previous 'first Coke appearance' by seven years, recently seen in the 1926 Laurel and Hardy short, "Thundering Fleas".