Next Aisle Over

1919 Comedy 9 minutes Directed by Hal Roach

About Next Aisle Over

Bebe Daniels works a department-store counter. Harold Lloyd, her boyfriend, comes in to peddle samples and angers the manager. Bebe gets him out of it by saying he is the new shoe salesman. Harold makes a mess of the customers. He then stops three crooks who plan to poison the staff and kidnap Bebe.

Cast & crew

More about Next Aisle Over

Hal Roach directed and produced the one-reeler. H. M. Walker wrote it. A Harold Lloyd filmography records the shoot as 24–30 August 1918, production number L-54, with a Pathé release on 30 March 1919.

Themes

Making

Roach's unit shot the short in a week at the end of August 1918 and Pathé released it the following March.

Music

Silent, with English intertitles.

Notes

  • Snub Pollard, Marie Mosquini, Sammy Brooks, and Bebe Daniels are in the cast with Lloyd.
  • The lordheath filmography also lists Wallace Howe, Margaret Joslin, and William Gillespie.
  • It is a one-reel comedy, silent, with English intertitles.

Scenes

  • Bebe tells the manager that Harold is the new shoe clerk.
  • Harold breaks up the plan to poison the staff and take Bebe.