Speedy (film)
| Speedy | |
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Poster
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| Directed by | Ted Wilde |
| Produced by | Harold Lloyd |
| Written by | Albert DeMond (titles) |
| Starring |
Harold Lloyd Ann Christy Bert Woodruff Babe Ruth |
| Music by |
Carl Davis (recent) Don Hulette (1974) Don Peake (1974 additional music) |
| Cinematography | Walter Lundin |
| Edited by | Carl Himm |
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Production
company |
Harold Lloyd Corporation
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Release date
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December 15, 1928 |
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Running time
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86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language |
Silent film English intertitles |
Speedy is a 1928 silent film that was one of the films to be nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy. The film stars famous comedian Harold Lloyd in the eponymous leading role, and it was his last silent film to be released in theatres.
The film was written by Albert DeMond (titles), John Grey (story), J.A. Howe (story), Lex Neal (story), and Howard Emmett Rogers (story) with uncredited assistance from Al Boasberg and Paul Girard Smith. The film was directed by Ted Wilde, the last silent film to be directed by him, and was shot in both Hollywood, and on location in New York City.
Everybody in New York City "is in such a hurry that they take Saturday's bath on Friday so they can do Monday's washing on Sunday". But in one slower-paced, "old-fashioned corner of the city", Pop Dillon (Burt Woodruff) owns and operates the city's last horse-drawn streetcar. His granddaughter Jane Dillon (Ann Christy) is in love with Harold "Speedy" Swift (Harold Lloyd).
Speedy, an avid New York Yankees fan, is working at a soda shop. As well as doing his work, he takes frequent telephone calls during Yankees games and passes the scores on to the kitchen staff by arranging food items in a display case (such as doughnuts for zeroes). But he loses the job when he is ordered to deliver some flowers and, distracted by a display of baseball scores in a shop window, lets someone close a car door on them.
Streetcar magnate W.S. Wilton (Byron Douglas) comes to Pop's home to ask for his price to sell the car line, but Speedy spots a newspaper article and realizes that this is part of a plan to form a streetcar monopoly in the city. He surreptitiously raises Pop's price from $10,000 to $70,000. Wilton angrily refuses and threatens to force Wilton out instead.
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