High and Dizzy
About High and Dizzy
A young doctor is treating a woman who sleepwalks. He and a friend get drunk on homemade liquor and try to dodge a policeman. The woman, a guest in the hotel, walks out onto a high ledge in her sleep, passes his window, and comes in off the ledge. He follows her out, nearly goes over, and finds her back in bed. Her father arrives with two assistants. The doctor proposes. She accepts. They climb out the window, and a minister in the room below marries them.
Cast & crew
More about High and Dizzy
Hal Roach directed and produced. Frank Terry and H. M. Walker wrote it. Walter Lundin photographed it. Pathé Exchange released it on July 11, 1920, as two reels, production L-7. Lord Heath dates the shooting from March 4 to April 20, 1920. Wikipedia gives 26 minutes. Harold Lloyd plays the doctor. Mildred Davis plays the sleepwalker. Roy Brooks is the friend. Wallace Howe is her father.
Themes
Making
The ledge is a hotel exterior, shot for the two-reel Pathé release in the spring of 1920.
Look
Walter Lundin photographed the ledge, including the sleepwalker passing Lloyd's window.
Notes
- The ledge walk is the set piece later audiences connect with Safety Last! (1923).
- The liquor gag sits under Prohibition: a policeman is after them for being drunk.
- Charles Stevenson plays the officer. Noah Young breaks a hotel door.
- Gaylord Lloyd, Harold's brother, is an uncredited extra.
Scenes
- The sleepwalker crosses the ledge and steps into his room from outside.
- A minister in the apartment below marries them after they climb out.
