Dr. Jack
About Dr. Jack
Country doctor Jack Jackson treats patients with sunlight and almost no medicine, and he rarely gets paid. The Sick-Little-Well-Girl has spent four years in a dark room on drugs prescribed by Dr. Ludwig von Saulsbourg, who has grown rich on the case. Lawyer Jamison brings Jack in as a consultant. Jack, who has already met the girl by accident, falls in love with her and is ordered out of the house after a kiss. He then stages a night alarm, disguises himself as an escaped lunatic said to be nearby, and frightens the household on purpose. The shock is his cure. Her father sees she is well, von Saulsbourg leaves, and Jack stays.
Cast & crew
More about Dr. Jack
Fred C. Newmeyer directed. Hal Roach produced. The story is by Jean Havez, Hal Roach, and Sam Taylor, with H. M. Walker also credited. Walter Lundin photographed it. Pathé released it on 26 November 1922. It was the first feature Lloyd planned as five reels from the start. A Sailor-Made Man and Grandma's Boy had both begun as two-reelers and grown during shooting.
Themes
Making
Lloyd used the five-reel length on purpose here, instead of discovering mid-shoot that a short was turning into a feature.
Audiences
The $1,275,423 gross made it one of the ten most profitable films released in 1922.
Look
Walter Lundin photographed it.
Preservation
Prints survive at the UCLA Film & Television Archive and at the BFI National Archive.
Notes
- The gross of $1,275,423 put it among the ten most profitable releases of 1922.
- Harold Lloyd plays Jack. Mildred Davis plays the Sick-Little-Well-Girl. Eric Mayne plays von Saulsbourg.
- John T. Prince plays her father, Norman Hammond plays Jamison, and Charles Stevenson plays an asylum guard.
- It sits on Lloyd's release list between Grandma's Boy and Safety Last!
- Prints are held by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and by the BFI National Archive.
Scenes
- Jack is caught kissing the girl and told to be gone by morning.
- He puts on a wig and hat and bursts in as the escaped lunatic.
- Von Saulsbourg makes his exit once the father accepts that she is cured.
