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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | | | | | Title: Welcome Danger Year: 1929 Studio: Paramount Actor 1: Harold Lloyd Size and Orientation: 11" x 17" Portrait State-of-the art DIGITAL presses print eye popping quality! Stains and tears on the original posters have been removed so the posters look as sharp and true as the originals seen in theaters. Posters are printed on an acid free, heavy weight paper and arrive in a crystal clear display sleeve with a hanger. This Is an 11 inch x 17 inch Movie Poster Replica, Not A Jigsaw Puzzle | | | |
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| | Features | State-of-the art DIGITAL PrintPrinted on an acid free, heavy weight paperIncludes crystal clear display sleeve with a hanger
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Great tribute to a not so great film Jul 04, 2008
Don't get me wrong, I love Harold Lloyd - both his talkies and silents. However, "Welcome Danger" was a real disappointment. It was Lloyd's first talking picture, started as a silent. When he finished he realized that sound had "arrived" and reshot it as a talking picture.
The awkwardness of the picture is no worse than any other early sound film, but the big problem is Harold's persona. As usual, he is the eager beaver trying to make good, but for some reason he makes his character out to be one of the most annoying personalities in film history. He is outright mean to people who really don't deserve it.
Lloyd plays Harold Bledsoe, a college student studying botany. His father is chief of police in San Francisco. After his father dies, Harold returns home to help the force with a crime wave in Chinatown. However, he becomes fascinated with fingerprint technology and soon has the department tied in knots with all of his cataloguing and fingerprinting. As usual, though, in the end Harold makes good and saves the day.
This is the only one of Lloyd's talking pictures not on DVD or VHS. That is a shame since it is not THAT bad, and it is an important milestone in cinema history since it was Lloyd's very first talking picture. "Feet First" was his second talking effort, and a much better film too. One of the real treats of this film is an unbilled appearance by Edgar Kennedy as a desk sergeant in the San Francisco police department. He spends a long time on screen for him to have no credit whatsoever, but he does a wonderful job of playing the irrascible beat cop we see in his later films. Also note that the poster mentions that the film will premiere on March 24 1930, and at the time, an all-talking picture was still an event. The film was actually released in September 1929, indicating the long delay that films had reaching various parts of the country 80 years ago.
Harold's existing silent and talking films under the control of Lloyd's estate can be found on DVD in The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection Vols. 1-3. Lloyd's very last film 1947's "The Sin of Harold Diddlebock" is on the public domain DVD set Comedy Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection. I highly recommend both products.
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