Bumping Into Broadway
About Bumping Into Broadway
A playwright and a dancer are both behind on the rent. He gives her his last money so she can pay. She goes with another man to the Sky Limit Club, an underground gambling room. He follows, puts found money on a roulette table by accident, and wins until the house is broke. The police raid the club. After the chase he gets back to her, and the short ends on a kiss.
Cast & crew
More about Bumping Into Broadway
Hal Roach produced and directed it. H. M. Walker wrote it. Pathé Exchange released it. Wikidata gives 23 minutes. Harold Lloyd plays the boy. Bebe Daniels plays the girl. Snub Pollard, Helen Gilmore, and Noah Young are billed. It is Lloyd's first two-reeler with the glasses character. A print is at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Making
Roach built the short as Lloyd's first two-reel glasses comedy, with the raid as the chase.
Preservation
A print is at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Notes
- The boarding house has a landlady and a bouncer who collect the rent.
- The win is an accident. He puts down money he found.
- The club's name in the film is the Sky Limit Club.
- A circulating copy runs 24 minutes and 39 seconds.
Scenes
- He hands her the rent money.
- He breaks the roulette game just as the police come in.
