Harold Lloyd: Speedy

Directed by: Harold Lloyd

1928 | USA | 1 hr 11 min

Start Riverside’s annual New York themed New Year’s Eve accompanying comedian Harold Lloyd in an urban adventure that touches all of New York City’s major sights: the streets, subways, trams, cabs, towers, Yankee Stadium—with Babe Ruth—Coney Island’s Luna Park, Columbus Circle and Wall Street as they were in 1928. In the film’s climax, his trolley has a spectacular crash at the Brooklyn Bridge, an accident not planned, but left in the film. Lloyd’s Speedy reflects visions of early 20th-century America unequalled on the silver screen. This is Lloyd’s last silent film, and one of his most charming. Lloyd was an actor and film-maker more popular than Keaton, more prolific than Chaplin; a comedic genius whose expert staging and editing have influenced films for decades.

Nominated Best Comedy, Academy Awards 1929