A Sammy in Siberia

During the Allied invasion of Russia (1918-1922), Harold Lloyd is a hapless American soldier out where east meets far east, to deal with snow, wolves, Bolsheviks, and of course, Bebe Daniels.

This was produced just before Lloyd switched from making one-reel comedies to focus on two reels, and it was clearly time: the pace of gags was too fast to permit more than the barest of plot points, and Lloyd's Glasses character (whom he always called "the boy") needed a bit of time to appear to be normal; this would allow his comic gags to be seen as sharper. Once he had done so, he quickly moved up the ladder.