Marin malgré lui

Titre original : A Sailor-Made Man

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Un playboy riche et oisif s'engage bêtement dans la marine lorsque le père de la fille qu'il veut épouser lui demande de trouver un emploi pour prouver qu'il en est digne.Un playboy riche et oisif s'engage bêtement dans la marine lorsque le père de la fille qu'il veut épouser lui demande de trouver un emploi pour prouver qu'il en est digne.Un playboy riche et oisif s'engage bêtement dans la marine lorsque le père de la fille qu'il veut épouser lui demande de trouver un emploi pour prouver qu'il en est digne.

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Rôles principaux14

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Harold Lloyd

The Boy

Mildred Davis

The Girl

Noah Young

The Rowdy Element

Dick Sutherland

Maharajah of Khairpura-Bhandanna

William Gillespie

Naval Officer in Dream Sequence
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Fred Guiol

Enlistee
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Wally Howe

Doctor
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Gus Leonard

Lawyer
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Augustina López

Cigar-Smoking Woman at Bazaar
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Jobyna Ralston

Bit Part
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Sybil Seely

Harem Girl
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Charles Stevenson

Recruiting Officer
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Molly Thompson

Girls Mother
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Leo Willis

Recruiting Officer
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Anecdotes
Both Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach would haul the initial cuts of their films to theaters on the outskirts of Los Angeles for unannounced test screenings. They would gauge the reactions of these audiences to individual scenes and recut the films accordingly. This film was unusual in that it was conceived as a 2-reel short, but the 4-reel (just over 40 minutes) first cut tested so strongly with the audience, they were loathe to cut any of it. By audience default, it accidentally became his first feature-length comedy.

Gaffes
When the Maharajah locks The Girl in a room, the door handle is on the left side. The camera then cuts to a shot of The Girl inside the room on the other side of the door, and that handle is also on the left side. The handle can't be on the left side of both sides of a door.

Citations
Title Card: ABINGTON ARMS - An ultra fashionable summer resort overlooking the bluff _ And there's a lot of it to overlook.

Connexions
Featured in American Masters: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989)

Avis des utilisateurs19

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9/10

Good First Lloyd Feature

At 46 minutes, it is hard to consider this a feature film, but apparently the distributors did and it launched Lloyd's career as a feature film star. It was released ten months after Chaplin released "The Kid," his first feature. However, both of these films were seven years after Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand's "Tillie's Punctured Romance," which was the first comedy feature, albeit not a very good one.

The movie is in three parts with millionaire Harold lazily announcing he is going to marry Mildred Davis in the first part. Her father demands he get a job and so he joins the Navy. The second part takes place at sea with Harold becoming friends with tough sailor Noah Young. The third part takes place in an Arabian Nights like far Eastern land, where Mildred is vacationing and Harold's ship coincidentally lands.

The first two parts are competent and amusing, but nothing special. It is the last part, where the film leaves reality that the film starts to really surprise and glow, as it foreshadows Douglas Fairbanks "Thief of Bagdad" (1924).

Everything here is well done. It is only in comparison to some of Lloyd's more brilliant sequences that the film suffers. Noah Young is excellent as the Navy tough guy who becomes Lloyd's loyal sidekick.

This film is more for Lloyd and silent film fans. As noted by another reviewer, it doesn't have the brilliant sequences that would make newbies embrace Lloyd as a genius or fall in love with silent film art.