The City Slicker
About The City Slicker
Harold answers an ad and takes the train to Punkville to modernize an old hotel. Beds, telephones, and bathtubs start coming out of the walls. Bebe arrives with her mother. An older man is pressing Bebe. Harold helps her shake him off.
Cast & crew
More about The City Slicker
Gilbert Pratt directed it. Hal Roach produced it. Harold Lloyd plays Harold. Bebe Daniels plays the girl. Snub Pollard, billed as Harry Pollard, plays Snub. It was released on 2 June 1918 and runs 12 minutes. A print is in the Library of Congress.
Themes
Preservation
Prints survive in the Library of Congress.
Notes
- Helen Gilmore plays the girl's mother. William Blaisdell plays the rejected suitor. Dee Lampton drives. Gus Leonard is the old man at the checkerboard.
- Sammy Brooks, Charles Stevenson, William Gillespie, and Wallace Howe are in the company.
- The gadgets include furniture that slides out of the walls.
Scenes
- Harold gets off the train in Punkville.
- A bathtub and a bed swing out of the hotel walls.
- He steers Bebe away from the older suitor.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The City Slicker (1918).webm)
- Library of Congress
