The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock details
| Format: | U DVD |
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| Starring: | Jimmy Conlin, Edgar Kennedy, Raymond Walburn, Harold Lloyd, Rudy Vallee |
| Director: | Preston Sturges |
| Genre: | Comedy - General |
| Studio: | ELSTREE HILL ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
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The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock |
U Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Not currently released |
| Main languages: | English |
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An uneasy marriage
By jim crichton from Witley bay, England , 26 Oct 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Your opinion of this film may depend on whether you are a Preston Sturges fan or an admirer of Harold LLoyd but both camps are likely to be slightly disappointed by this marriage of styles.
The rapid fire patter of Sturges is here as is the vertigo inducing stunts that are LLoyd's trademark but you are left wanting more of both. On it's release this film was not particularly successful and it was later re-edited in a shorter version and renamed 'Mad Wednesday'.
Despite the above concerns it is still an enjoyable and funny movie- Was this review helpful to you?
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(5)A Lion's Share of Success!
By Seedyvee (187 reviews) from Grantham , 14 Jan 2012Chained to a lion, dangling from a skyscraper ledge, hoping to be rescued by an old man who can't see without his spectacles, this sequence approaches the more famous mail-bag scene for hilarity. There are other sequences of great raucous humour but the sentimental filling is much too sickly and preposterous to make the whole perfectly satisfactory.
This film shows Harry Lloyd as both a great comic artist and respectable straight actor: but five stars for Jacky the lion is well deserved!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Undiscovered masterpiece
By a customer from The Midlands , 08 Jan 2007A criminally neglected masterpiece. The combination of Lloyd's deadpan delivery and Sturgess' literary dialogue works perfectly; it's a shame that this was the final film that either of them made. The plot ingeniously starts by incorporating footage from 'The Freshman', a film that Lloyd had made twenty years earlier and then follows his subsequent career through a series of bewildering twists. The reprisal of the high-rise stunts that Lloyd was famous for in the '20s (but with a lion this time) is a little unconvincing but nothing could spoil the brilliance of the plotting and dialogue in this film.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Undiscovered masterpiece
By a customer from The Midlands , 08 Jan 2007A criminally neglected masterpiece. The combination of Lloyd's deadpan delivery and Sturgess' literary dialogue works perfectly; it's a shame that this was the final film that either of them made. The plot ingeniously starts by incorporating footage from 'The Freshman', a film that Lloyd had made twenty years earlier and then follows his subsequent career through a series of bewildering twists. The reprisal of the high-rise stunts that Lloyd was famous for in the '20s (but with a lion this time) is a little unconvincing but nothing could spoil the brilliance of the plotting and dialogue in this film.- Was this review helpful to you?
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An uneasy marriage
By jim crichton from Witley bay, England , 26 Oct 2005Your opinion of this film may depend on whether you are a Preston Sturges fan or an admirer of Harold LLoyd but both camps are likely to be slightly disappointed by this marriage of styles.
The rapid fire patter of Sturges is here as is the vertigo inducing stunts that are LLoyd's trademark but you are left wanting more of both. On it's release this film was not particularly successful and it was later re-edited in a shorter version and renamed 'Mad Wednesday'.
Despite the above concerns it is still an enjoyable and funny movie- Was this review helpful to you?
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A pair of glasses and a permanent frown
By Sword2012 from Middlesex , 16 Jul 2005If you’re expecting any of the old Harold Lloyd magic in this, you’re in for a tremendous disappointment
This is Lloyd twenty or so years later, looking old and sad, and being upstaged by far better actors.
It’s a humourless outing, and a tragedy to see the great man come to this. Lloyd was never much good at talkies, but this one is dire.
The beginning is padded out with the end scenes from the brilliant ‘The Freshman’, made some twenty years earlier; but from there on it slows down horribly
Interesting to see the actress who played the witch in The Wizard of Oz, though…
This is one to avoid, unless you’re into living post mortems of once great performers.- Was this review helpful to you?
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