Product Details

• Actors: Harold Lloyd
• Directors: various
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Classic Video Streams
• DVD Release Date: August 28, 2009
• Run Time: 150 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B002N2JYDM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,041 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Actors: Rare Films Of Harold Lloyd" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Harold Lloyd captured in his prime, July 17, 2010

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Randy E. Halford "Comedy Fan" (Boise, ID) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Actors: Rare Films Of Harold Lloyd (DVD)

I was almost going to give this DVD compilation a rating of four stars instead of five. Why? Distributed by Classic Video Streams, the silents here look as implied: Copied from internet video clips. The images are often fuzzy and there's some footage missing. But considering that all these rare Lloyd gems are nearly a century old, one can probably do little to restore them, which is why I gave it a five star rating. After doing over a 100 silent shorts, we're lucky that a handful survived (most likely due to Lloyd himself storing them safely away in a vault). Watching them, one can guess why Lloyd became so popular in the Teens & Twenties: He created such an energetic but likable young man. Compare this with the Lonesome Luke short "The Cinema Director"---try as he might, Lloyd's no Chaplin, and he's simply not funny here. I can understand why Lloyd became so dissatisfied with the Luke character & didn't truly find his niche in cinematic history until he invented the "glasses" character.
Packaged in a space-saving slim case design (with uncomplicated graphics), "Rare Films.." is an interesting look into the beginnings of Lloyd's phenomenal film success, and a glimpse into the days when comedy was blossoming & pleasures were simple.