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The City Slicker ( 1918) Directed By Gilbert Pratt
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The City Slicker Directed by Gilbert Pratt Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Release date June 2, 1918 Running time 12 minutes Country United States Languages Silent English intertitles The City Slicker is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd . Prints of the film survive in the film archive of the Library of Congress . [ 1 ] Plot Harold arrives in the backward town of Punkville by train to answer a classified ad offering employment for an eager young man who can modernize an antiquated hotel. Within a short time Harold has modernized the inn, including having rooms where the furniture. beds, telephones and bathtubs emerge from the walls. Bebe arrives at the hotel accompanied by her somewhat overbearing mother. Harold is attracted to her and helps her thwart and unwanted and much older suitor. Cast Harold Lloyd as Harold Snub Pollard as Snub (as Harry Pollard) Bebe Daniels as The Girl Helen Gilmore as Girl's Mother William Blaisdell as Bebe's rejected suitor Gus Alexander Sammy Brooks Lige Conley (as Lige Cromley) Billy Fay William Gillespie Wallace Howe Dee Lampton as Driver Gus Leonard as Old man playing checkers Charles Stevenson (as Charles E. Steve…
Directors & creators
Gilbert Pratt
Subjects
Harold Lloyd, Harry ‘Snub’ Pollard