A Sailor-Made Man

1921
U
47m

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An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

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Harold Lloyd

The Boy

Mildred Davis

The Girl

Noah Young

The Rowdy Element

Dick Sutherland

Maharajah of Khairpura-Bhandanna

William Gillespie

Naval Officer in Dream Sequence
(uncredited)

Fred Guiol

Enlistee
(uncredited)

Wally Howe

Doctor
(uncredited)

Gus Leonard

Lawyer
(uncredited)

Augustina López

Cigar-Smoking Woman at Bazaar
(uncredited)

Jobyna Ralston

Bit Part
(uncredited)

Sybil Seely

Harem Girl
(uncredited)

Charles Stevenson

Recruiting Officer
(uncredited)

Molly Thompson

Girls Mother
(uncredited)

Leo Willis

Recruiting Officer
(uncredited)

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Lloyd's First Feature

A brash millionaire, Harold Lloyd, impulsively joins the Navy to prove his worth to his girlfriend's rich father in this pleasant if unspectacular comedy. "Sailor Made Man" was Harold Lloyd's first feature comedy, which, according to reports, was originally conceived as a short film which grew increasingly longer. That evolution can be detected in the rather simple plot and lack of sophistication in regard to character development. In this film, Lloyd goes from being an insufferably selfish jerk to a somewhat normal sailor in about the length of one title card. Still, there are sufficient laughs, and a certain innocence to the romance that can't help but bring a smile, even if the film isn't as rich and assured as some of the features that followed. Not the best place to start for someone unfamiliar with Harold Lloyd, but a definite for fans.

hausrathman
Apr 15, 2007
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Both Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach would haul the initial cuts of their films to theaters on the outskirts of Los Angeles for unannounced test screenings. They would gauge the reactions of these audiences to individual scenes and recut the films accordingly. This film was unusual in that it was conceived as a 2-reel short, but the 4-reel (just over 40 minutes) first cut tested so strongly with the audience, they were loathe to cut any of it. By audience default, it accidentally became his first feature-length comedy.

Goofs
When the Maharajah locks The Girl in a room, the door handle is on the left side. The camera then cuts to a shot of The Girl inside the room on the other side of the door, and that handle is also on the left side. The handle can't be on the left side of both sides of a door.