For Heaven's Sake
About For Heaven's Sake
Millionaire J. Harold Manners (Harold Lloyd) sets fire to a charity coffee cart run by Brother Paul (Paul Weigel) and writes a check. The paper then says he is paying for a mission. He goes to tear down the sign that names the mission after him and meets Paul's daughter Hope (Jobyna Ralston). To fill the hall he provokes a crowd that chases him inside, including men carrying the take from a jewel robbery. He passes a hat as a collection while the police search the room, and the crooks drop the loot in it. His club friends kidnap him on the wedding day. He rounds up five drunk members of the reception committee and still marries Hope at the mission.
Cast & crew
More about For Heaven's Sake
Sam Taylor directed. Harold Lloyd produced. John Grey, Ted Wilde, and Clyde Bruckman wrote it. Ralph Spence wrote the titles. Walter Lundin photographed it. Paramount released it in the United States on 1 April 1926. Noah Young plays the roughneck. James Mason (Jim Mason) plays the gangster. Receipts are listed at $2,600,000, the 12th-highest figure reported for a silent film.
Themes
Making
The wedding finish is a transport gag: Manners has to deliver five drunk committeemen to the mission after his own friends have tried to carry him off.
Look
Walter Lundin shot the street chase into the mission and the ride that gets the drunks to the wedding.
Preservation
The film survives. A copy is on the Internet Archive under SilentFilmProgramForforHeavensSake1926.
Notes
- The mission is named the J. Harold Manners Mission before Manners has agreed to it.
- Oscar Smith plays the chauffeur, without credit. Robert Dudley plays Harold's secretary.
- The Internet Archive identifier is SilentFilmProgramForforHeavensSake1926.
- Lloyd had moved from Pathé to Paramount by this release. Pathé did not distribute it.
- Jobyna Ralston was Lloyd's leading woman in several of the Paramount comedies.
Scenes
- Manners tries to pull down the sign with his own name on the mission.
- Crooks drop stolen jewels into his hat while he pretends to take a collection.
- He herds five drunks to the mission and marries Hope.
Also available
- Internet Archive (SilentFilmProgramForforHeavensSake1926)
