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Welcome Danger

Welcome Danger
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Film poster
Directed by Clyde Bruckman
Malcolm St. Clair (uncredited)
Written by Paul Girard Smith
Felix Adler
Lex Neal
Clyde Bruckman
Starring Harold Lloyd
Barbara Kent
Cinematography Henry O. Kohler
Walter Lundin
Edited by Bernard W. Burton
Carl Himm
Production
company
Harold Lloyd Corporation
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
October 12, 1929 (1929-10-12)
Running time
115 minutes (sound version)
10,796 feet (silent version)
Country United States
Language English
Budget $979,828
Box office $3,000,000

Welcome Danger is a 1929 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Clyde Bruckman and starring Harold Lloyd in his first talkie. A sound version and silent version were filmed. Ted Wilde began work on the silent version, but became ill and was replaced by Bruckman.

Harold Bledsoe, a botany enthusiast, is traveling by rail to San Francisco. The captain of police of that town, Captain Walton, has sent for him, to see if he can help them to investigate a crime wave in the Chinatown district; he is the son of the former more successful police captain Jim Bledsoe, and they hope to find him a ‘chip off the old block’.

Also traveling to San Francisco, but by car, are Billie Lee and her brother Buddy, who has badly injured his knee, and needs reconstruction from an acclaimed surgeon there, Dr Gao.

On the train, Harold is found to be of an extremely officious turn; we see him patrolling the carriages, setting things to rights, interfering in chess games etc.. Stopping at a town, Harold takes his picture at a machine, but is astonished to find the face of a woman superimposed next his own - in fact, Billie had just taken her own photograph, and the film had failed to develop, thus leaving both images upon it. When the train later experiences a minor engine issue, the passengers temporarily disembark, but just before it starts again Lloyd spots an unusual flower in a tree across a ditch, and is so intrigued that he goes across to fetch it. Unable to reach the branch, he gets up upon the back of a cow, only to have it run away with him just as the train chugs off. It throws him to the ground beside a car, with Billie and Buddy in it. He does not recognise Billie – she has had a problem with her car and is dressed in boy’s clothes, to get underneath and investigate the engine. Harold stops to help, but he makes her work hard and continually insults her. They take the car engine apart initially, but cannot find anything the matter with it, until a car passes, and suggests they check their gas, which turns out to be empty. The other motorist lends them some, but unfortunately they leave their carburettor on its running board, and are in a worse position than before. Now they have to spend the night there, and set up a tent, but Harold still makes Billie slave everywhere, while he lazes, contemplating the beauty of the fair unknown in his photograph. This so flatters Billie that she puts up with his treatment for several hours, until, exhausted, she changes her clothes in the tent, and frightens Harold half out of his wits by appearing in a dress. He runs away, but she catches him, and calms his extreme embarrassment at his prior treatment of her (he has even kicked her once). She asks if he still thinks her eyes are beautiful, seeing them out of the photograph; he says he does. In the morning, they harness the original cow to the car, and it pulls them to a station. Harold leaves her to catch his train, and they go separately to San Francisco.


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