Chop Suey & Co.
About Chop Suey & Co.
Policeman Harold Lloyd meets stage star Bebe Daniels on a park bench while she waits for Bud Jamison. She leaves with Bud. Lloyd is moved to a Chinatown beat with Snub Pollard. That night Daniels and Jamison eat at a chop suey restaurant. A back room admits people by a hand signal. Lloyd gets in after the game has been hidden. Sure she has been taken into an opium den, he and Pollard raid the room and he carries her out. She tells him they were rehearsing a scene from her play, and she drives off with Bud. Hal Roach directed.
Cast & crew
More about Chop Suey & Co.
Roach also produced. Pathé Exchange released it. A date on a Lloyd filmography is August 17, 1919. The listed length is 8 minutes. Sammy Brooks, Marie Mosquini, and James Parrott are on the cast. A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-chop-suey-co-.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The password is a gesture, not a word.
- The opium den is a rehearsal.
- Pollard is the other officer.
- The English article says only that a print exists.
Scenes
- Lloyd carries Daniels out of the restaurant.
- She tells him the den was a scene from the play.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-chop-suey-co-)
