Take a Chance

Name: Take a Chance
Director: Alfred J. Goulding
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1918
Duration: 10 min
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Harry 'Snub' Pollard, William Blaisdell, Sammy Brooks

1918 Comedy Drama 10 minutes Directed by Alfred J. Goulding

About Take a Chance

Harold Lloyd falls for a hired girl, Bebe Daniels, while she washes a staircase. When her beau Snub Pollard drives her to a picnic, Lloyd hides in the back seat and sets the two of them fighting. At the grounds he and Bebe take a seesaw. An escaped prisoner clubs Lloyd and dresses him in prison clothes. Lloyd then runs from the police who have followed the escapees into the park.

Cast & crew

More about Take a Chance

Alfred J. Goulding directed and Hal Roach produced the one-reeler. The English Wikipedia dates the release December 15, 1918, and calls the film extant. Wikidata also lists the running time as 10 minutes.

Themes

a picnic rivalry
a back-seat stowaway
a convict's clothes
a police chase
Harold Lloyd
Bebe Daniels
Snub Pollard
picnic
prison clothes
seesaw

Preservation

The English Wikipedia states that the film is extant.

Notes

Lloyd is billed as The Sport, Pollard as Simplex Joe, and Daniels as The Hired Girl.
William Blaisdell, Sammy Brooks, Bud Jamison, and Dee Lampton are among the uncredited players.
James A. Fitzgerald is an uncredited tall policeman and William Gillespie an uncredited policeman.
The English Wikipedia plot does not name a production company.

Scenes

Lloyd hides in the back of Pollard's car and provokes a fight on the drive.
A prisoner swaps clothes with the stunned Lloyd so the police chase the wrong man.