Never Weaken

1921
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19m

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Mildred Davis and Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken (1921)

A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.

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Sometimes Killing Yourself Is Just So Difficult

The title doesn't make any sense, but otherwise this is a terrific Harold Lloyd short that demonstrates why Lloyd was so beloved.

I watched this shortly after watching another Lloyd short, "Haunted Spooks" (mostly because they come together on the same DVD), and it's very similar in premise to the first half of "Spooks." Lloyd plays a young man who thinks the love of his life is in love with someone else, and he decides to commit suicide. Of course, he's Harold Lloyd, so things don't go as planned, and he instead finds himself dangling above New York city from a construction site. These scenes are real nail biters, as one thing after another threatens to send him plummeting, and Lloyd showcases the dare-devilry that was so common to silent comedy actors from that time.

Grade: A

evanston_dad
Oct 20, 2011
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Trivia
Pioneering stuntman Harvey Parry doubled for Harold Lloyd in several of the most dangerous shots in this and other Harold Lloyd films; only after the death of Lloyd (who was always said to do his own stunts) did Parry "go public" about his involvement.

Goofs
The boy rips off a loosely thread button from his suit jacket and spills the glass of poison. His jacket is still missing the button up to when he is sitting in his chair awaiting the janitor to open the office door. However, when he is sitting on the chair on the girder, his jacket has regained the missing button, and it remains for the rest of the film.

Quotes
The Girl: He can do anything he tries. Why, he even learned the names of all the vice presidents.

Crazy credits
The cast title page is headed "Just passing by". Below the cast list: The Plot - a youth of twenty-one and a maid of eighteen. Shakespeare couldn't have asked for more.