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
[edit]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
[edit]- Harold Lloyd as Harold
- Snub Pollard as Snub (as Harry Pollard)
- Bebe Daniels as The Girl
- Helen Gilmore as Girl's Mother
- William Blaisdell as Bebe's rejected suitor
- Gus Alexander
- Sammy Brooks
- Lige Conley (as Lige Cromley)
- Billy Fay
- William Gillespie
- Wallace Howe
- Dee Lampton as Driver
- Gus Leonard as Old man playing checkers
- Charles Stevenson (as Charles E. Stevenson)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The City Slicker". Silent Era. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
External links
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- 1918 films
- 1918 comedy films
- 1918 short films
- 1910s American films
- 1910s English-language films
- American black-and-white films
- American comedy short films
- American silent short films
- Films directed by Gilbert Pratt
- Silent American comedy films
- Surviving American silent films
- English-language comedy short films
- 1910s short comedy film stubs