In Hal Roach’s gag-filled An Eastern Westerner (the only 35mm film print on this year’s programme), Lloyd plays the pampered son of New York privilege sent to the Wild West to shape up.
Screened as part of NZIFF 2016
An Eastern Westerner 1920
In Hal Roach’s gag-filled An Eastern Westerner (the only 35mm film print on this year’s programme), Lloyd plays the pampered son of New York privilege sent to the Wild West to shape up. There’s one gag so nifty it’s repeated in Safety Last! three years later. Mildred Davis, who plays opposite Lloyd in both films, married him in 1923 and retired, at hubby’s behest, from the screen.