6/10
Some nice moments, but not Lloyd's best
21 June 2019
As adorable as Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston are, the premise to this one was less interesting to me than a lot of Lloyd's other films, and the physical comedy is just average, not the era's best (or even Lloyd's best). The action ratchets up in the last half hour with a fight scene that Lloyd would leverage from in 'Movie Crazy' five years later, and a wild horse ride that's pretty impressive, but thematically it's all drama at that point. The film is not actively bad or anything, and Lloyd fans will almost certainly like it more (as Lloyd himself did).

My favorite gag: In a small moment when Lloyd approaches a yard with a guard dog, to get around it, he whips a cat out and nonchalantly puts it up on a high fence pole to distract the dog. Favorite romantic moment: Lloyd climbing the tree when Ralston walks off down a hill, so he can keep waving and calling out to her; the camera ascends with him, which technically was a fine early use of a camera elevator, and the look on Ralston's face is very sweet. Favorite object: the stereograph photo viewer he amuses her with in the kitchen.
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