Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1940 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-07-09
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 9
• Running time: 1746 minutes

Synopsis
Collection comprising many of Harold Lloyd’s most famous films, along short films and featurettes. Titles include A SAILOR-MADE MAN, DR JACK, GRANDMA’s BOY, SAFETY LAST, WHY WORRY, GIRL SHY, HOT WATER, THE FRESHMAN, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE, THE KID BROTHER, SPEEDY, WELCOME DANGER, FEET FIRST, MOVIE CRAZY, THE CAT’S PAW, THE MILKY WAY.

Customer Reviews

Excellent collection
This box includes most of Harold Lloyd's work dating from 1919-1932 (I dare to say: all the important silent features). As the films are unfortunately not arranged chronologically on the discs, these are the titles:

Ask Father, released 09.02.1919
Billy Blazes, Esq., 06.07.1919
Bumping Into Broadway, 02.11.1919
From Hand to Mouth, 28.12.1919
Haunted Spooks, 14.03.1920
An Eastern Westerner, 02.05.1920
High and Dizzy, 11.07.1920
Get Out and Get Under, 12.09.1920
Number, Please?, 26.12.1920
Now or Never, 27.03.1921
Among Those Present, 29.05.1921
I Do, 11.09.1921
Never Weaken, 22.10.1921
A Sailor-Made Man, 25.12.1921
Grandma's Boy, 20.05.1922
Safety Last!, 01.04.1923
Why Worry?, 02.09.1923
Girl Shy, 20.04.1924
Hot Water, 26.10.1924
The Freshman, 20.09.1925
For Heaven's Sake, 04.04.1926
Dr. Jack, 26.11.1926
The Kid Brother, 22.01.1927
Speedy, 07.04.1928
Welcome Danger, 12.10.1929
Feet First, 08.11.1930
Movie Crazy, 12.08.1932
The Cat's-Paw, 30.07.1934
The Milky Way, 07.02.1936

The restauration of some of the better known films is just amazing and most of the music added is pretty good. The special features are often good as well.

The best comedy actor
I liked the silent films best but that said even the several talkies are very good as well though for different reasons. The set I had I had great difficulty with - I have two DVD players, a Samsung the more expensive of the two, and a Digilogic a cheap thing from Tesco, and found the latter best at playing the DVD's. Only 2 of the 9 would play on the Samsung so I had to copy the others from the cheap Tesco player onto Video tapes in order to watch them in the comfort of my lounge. I was told that the more expensive the DVD player the more likely it is to cause problems. In two cases I had to clean the discs with meths to get them to play at all. But these problems aside, these are well worth buying and will provide hours of pleasure. I think it is a pity the Amazon lists don't tell us what films each set contains, I would like to buy more, he made over 200 films, but don't want to duplicate those in this set.

The films in this set are
Movie Crazy/Welcome Danger/Hot water/Now or Never/High and Dizzy/Get out and Get under/Ask Father/From hand to mouth/The Freshman/The Kid brother/Bumping into Broadway/Bills Blazes/Speedy/Number please/A Sailor made man/I do/For Heavens sake/Why Worry/Dr Jack/Feet first/Safety Last/An Eastern Westenener/Girl shy/Never weaken//Haunted spooks/Haunted spooks/Grandma

Worth purchasing just for the one talkie included exclusively in this UK version.
I was lambasted by my family for purchasing this DVD box as I had already possessed US version of this for about 3years .

Then why did I lay out money on this again? The reason is that of course I am an ardent admirer of Lloyd and this UK version is superior to its US counterpart in that it carries Lloyd's commemorative first talkie called "Welcome Danger" produced in 1929.

Now that I've enjoyed what I had long wanted to, I can say that it was worth getting it.

Living in Japan I don't have to use special device to watch this DVD box as my country shares the same region code for DVD with the UK.

However I only give four stars to evaluate. Why? Well,it is because unlike the US version, each film is not accompanied by English subtitles and thus I find, as a non-native speaker of English, it is very disappointing and inconvenient the omission of English subtitles forbids me full appreciation of the talkies.