Now or Never (1921)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Directors:

Fred C. Newmeyer
Hal Roach

Escritores:

H.M. Walker (titles)
Sam Taylor (scenario)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

27 marzo 1921 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Corto

Plot:

A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.

Plot Keywords:

Train | Car Accident | Neglected Child | Nursemaid | Rendezvous

Comentarios de los usuarios:

NOW OR NEVER (Fred Newmeyer and Hal Roach, 1921) ***

Reparto

Harold Lloyd	...	The Boy
Mildred Davis	...	The Girl
Anna Mae Bilson	...	The Lonesome Little Child (as Anna May Bilson)

Duración:

USA:35 min (2002 alternate version)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.33 : 1

Sonido:

Silent

Clasificación:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating)

Compañía:

Rolin Films

Banda de Sonido:

Rock-a-Bye Baby

NOW OR NEVER (Fred Newmeyer and Hal Roach, 1921) ***

Being a three-reeler, this Harold Lloyd vehicle commands more attention than his typical short - though it's not quite as rounded as his feature-length films either!

Train-set for a good part of the duration, it provides plenty of gags characteristic to such a situation: being a stowaway with a small girl in tow, Lloyd has to devise several ways in which to avoid detection; there's a lengthy scene in the berths (at one point, Lloyd causes the train to make an emergency stop in the middle of the country-side simply because his spoilt ward wants a glass of milk!); and the star even contrives to find himself on top of the train as it's speeding towards a tunnel.

As with many of his other shorts I've watched, a good enough comedy but these, somehow, aren't as highly regarded as the equivalent work of a Keaton or even Laurel & Hardy!