Welcome Danger (1929)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.5/10   

Directors:

Clyde Bruckman
Malcolm St. Clair

Escritores:

Felix Adler (screenplay)
Felix Adler (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 octubre 1929 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Frase comercial:

For the First Time! Hear Harold Lloyd Talk

Plot:

Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief...

Plot Keywords:

Chinatown | Distraction | Tripping | San Francisco California | Gangster

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A New Era For Mr. Lloyd

Reparto

Harold Lloyd	...	Harold Bledsoe
Barbara Kent	...	Billie Lee
Noah Young	...	Officer Patrick Clancy SFPD
Charles Middleton	...	John Thorne / The Dragon
Will Walling	...	Captain Walton SFPD 3rd Div. (as William Walling)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Grady Sutton	...	Man at party (silent version) (scenes deleted)

Duración:

115 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.20 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Metropolitan Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

The Harold Lloyd Corporation

Trivialidades:

Clyde Bruckman's solution for reworking the film as a talkie was to eliminate half the silent version and reshoot it as a talkie. The remaining half of the picture would be dubbed--- a cumbersome experience that Lloyd found difficult to accomplish. The result was awkward and it's easy to spot the dubbed scenes in the film (most apparent whenever Lloyd is left in the darkness of the opium den with his knuckleheaded sidekick, Officer Clancy [Noah Young].

Errores:

Sin sincronía de Audio o Visual: In many of the dubbed scenes, the voices are out of synchronization with the actors' lip movements.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en "American Masters: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius" (1989)

Banda de Sonido:

Billie

A New Era For Mr. Lloyd

A young botanist seems to WELCOME DANGER when he goes looking for a master criminal in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Silent screen star Harold Lloyd made his first excursion into talking films with this enjoyable comedy. Originally initiated as a silent movie, Harold -- ever the progressive -- became convinced of the lasting viability of sound films and had the picture completely revamped, at a cost of over a million dollars of his own money.

Some of the sequences are obviously dubbed-over silent footage, and the entire film shares a love of too-much-talk with other movies of the era. But the comedy is good and certainly on a par with any other sound pictures being produced at the time. One prolonged scene in particular, Harold's foray into the depths of Chinatown, replete with hidden passages, trapdoors and sliding panels, makes an excellent use of both sound & music, and shows that Lloyd was still on top of his game.

Barbara Kent makes a spunky love interest for Harold; she's cute & lively and it's impossible to understand how he could possibly mistake her for a boy. Charles Middleton is an effectively nasty villain; and it's good to see Noah Young, a familiar face from so many of Harold's silent films, here playing a dumb but loyal cop.

Movie mavens will recognize an unbilled Edgar Kennedy as a harassed desk sergeant.