Grandma's Boy
About Grandma's Boy
Harold, who lives with his grandmother, is too scared to court Mildred and too scared of a rival. A tramp is menacing the town. Grandma gives him a charm she says his grandfather used in the Civil War. He catches the tramp and wins the girl. The charm is the handle of her umbrella.
Cast & crew
More about Grandma's Boy
Fred C. Newmeyer directed. Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Jean Havez, and H. M. Walker wrote it. Roach produced it, uncredited on some bills. Walter Lundin photographed it. Pathé released it on September 3, 1922. An encore issue went out through Associated Exhibitors. Wikipedia gives 60 minutes, a budget of $94,412, and a U.S. and Canada gross of $1.1 million. Harold Lloyd plays the grandson and, in a flashback, the grandfather. Mildred Davis plays the girl. Anna Townsend plays the grandmother.
Themes
Making
Roach and Newmeyer stretch Lloyd from a two-reeler into a story with a coward, a rival, and a fake heirloom.
Look
Walter Lundin photographed the town chase and the Civil War flashback.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The charm that steadies him is an umbrella handle. Grandma has been pretending.
- Lloyd plays both the boy and the Civil War grandfather.
- Charles Stevenson and Noah Young are in the town.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- Grandma hands him the Civil War charm.
- He learns it is the handle of her umbrella.
