... in that Lloyd had been playing this character already for two years.
This is the first one of Harold Lloyd's Lonesome Luke shorts that I have ever seen, and it really doesn't have any glimpse of the greatness Lloyd will demonstrate in the 1920s and beyond.
In it, Luke (Lloyd) works for a messenger service and is tasked with delivering messages and packages when he's not goofing off. His first assignment involves him following, on a bike, somebody who is driving a car. He is supposed to deliver a message to his house. Why didn't the driver just take the message himself???
Most of the short takes place at a girls' seminary school, where Luke tries to find a way to get in to see a girl, any girl. Of course, one of the more aggressive girls is played by Bebe Daniels who was Lloyd's long time leading lady in his Lonesome Luke shorts. None of the jokes break out of what was typical for the slapstick of the era. Probably worthwhile mainly for Lloyd completists.
