Over the Fence
About Over the Fence
Ginger, a tailor, finds two baseball tickets in a customer's ruined jacket and phones his girl to meet him at the park. His fellow tailor Snitch lifts the tickets. At the gate Ginger has nothing, Snitch walks the girl in, and Ginger sneaks through the players' entrance, where he is taken for the new pitcher. In a tied ninth inning he hits the ball, then sees his girl with Snitch and starts a fight that spills onto the field.
Cast & crew
More about Over the Fence
Harold Lloyd and J. Farrell MacDonald directed, Hal Roach produced, and Pathé Exchange released it on 9 September 1917. Harold Lloyd plays Ginger, Snub Pollard plays Snitch, Bebe Daniels plays the girl, and Bud Jamison plays the boss. Shooting ran 7–19 June 1917, with Walter Lundin as cameraman.
Themes
Making
Instead of running out the home run, Ginger leaves the base path to reach Snitch in the field-level seats.
Look
Walter Lundin photographed the tailor shop and the ballpark.
Preservation
Prints survive at the Museum of Modern Art.
Notes
- It is the debut of Lloyd's Glasses character, also called the Boy.
- Ginger had not bought the tickets. He found them in a jacket Snitch had cut while distracted.
- James Darsie Lloyd, billed as J. Darcie Lloyd, plays the umpire.
- Prints are at the Museum of Modern Art.
Scenes
- Snitch palms the tickets while Ginger is on the telephone.
- Ginger is shoved into the game as the new pitcher.
- He hits in the ninth, then dives into the seats after Snitch.
Also available
- Internet Archive (over-the-fence-1917-directed-by-j.-farrell-mac-donald-harold-lloyd)
