Прирождённый моряк (1921) Online
When The Girl's father insists that, before he will agree to The Boy's marrying his daughter, he must first prove that he can do something more worthwhile than act the playboy. He joins the navy. When his ship docks at a Middle Eastern kingdom, The Girl and her father also arrive by yacht. The local maharajah kidnaps The Girl and it is up to The Boy to rescue her.
Complete credited cast: | |||
Harold Lloyd | - | The Boy | |
Mildred Davis | - | The Girl | |
Noah Young | - | The Rowdy Element | |
Dick Sutherland | - | Maharajah of Khairpura-Bhandanna |
Both Lloyd and Hal Roach would haul the initial cuts of their films to theaters in the outskirts of Los Angeles for unannounced test screenings. They would carefully gauge the reactions of these audiences to individual scenes and re-cut 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 test audience they were loathe to cut any of it. By audience default, it became his first feature-length comedy, by accident.
With the release of this film, Harold Lloyd became just the second silent comedian to release a feature-length film.
Released on 25 December 1921, it grossed $485,000. The success of this film as a feature led Lloyd to abandon making 2-reel shorts. His next film, Grandma's Boy (1922) was designed from the start as a 5-reel feature and would be released nine months after Прирождённый моряк (1921).
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