The City Slicker
| The City Slicker | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Gilbert Pratt |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Starring | Harold Lloyd |
Release date |
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Running time | 12 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The City Slicker is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Prints of the film survive in the film archive of the Library of Congress.[1]
Plot[]
Harold arrives in the backward town of Punkville by train to answer a classified ad offering employment for an eager young man who can modernize an antiquated hotel. Within a short time Harold has modernized the inn, including having rooms where the furniture. beds, telephones and bathtubs emerge from the walls. Bebe arrives at the hotel accompanied by her somewhat overbearing mother. Harold is attracted to her and helps her thwart and unwanted and much older suitor.
Cast[]
- Harold Lloyd - Harold
- Snub Pollard - Snub (as Harry Pollard)
- Bebe Daniels - The Girl
- Helen Gilmore - Girl's Mother
- William Blaisdell - Bebe's rejected suitor
- Gus Alexander
- Sammy Brooks
- Lige Conley - (as Lige Cromley)
- Billy Fay
- William Gillespie
- Wallace Howe
- Dee Lampton - Driver
- Gus Leonard - Old man playing checkers
- Charles Stevenson - (as Charles E. Stevenson)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The City Slicker". Silent Era. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
External links[]
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- 1918 films
- American films
- American comedy films
- American silent short films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by Gilbert Pratt
- 1918 comedy films
- 1918 short films
- Comedy short films
- Surviving American silent films
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