Series: Harold Lloyd Director: Gilbert W. Pratt Producer: Hal Roach Titles: H.M. Walker Photography: Walter Lundin Editor: Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard Company: Pathé Exchange Released: 04 August 1918 Length: 1 reel Production No.: L-36 Filming dates: May 1-6, 1918 Rating: 4/10

That's Him

Harold and Bebe are a married-for-one-year couple at home having breakfast when she spills coffee over his hand. When Bebe cleans up the dishes Harold makes a big fuss over what we think is his baby lying in his pram until a revealing shot shows it is actually his dog! A messenger delivers a note to the couple from an Aunt Roberta instructing them to get on a train so they can claim a large inheritance that has been left to them. Snub has a scene where he thinks about robbing Sammy Brooks until he discovers the short guy is a detective and thinks better of it. Harold and Bebe arrive at the train but Harold has forgotten his tickets. The conductor (in terrible blackface) tells Harold he has 20 minutes before the train departs. Harold walks home and encounters Snub, who has just robbed a man (I think this is Gus Leonard?) in the street. Snub holds Harold up at gunpoint and forces him to exchange clothes before accidentally shooting him. Harold plays dead and then shoots Snub from behind like a coward! A cop finds Harold with the gun and assumes he is the robber before asking the elderly man to identify him. The man wrongly claims "that's him!" and Harold is taken away. Harold manages to escape and hides in an underground bunker where a gang of men are playing cards. He quickly changes his mind when one of them fires a gun and heads back upstairs but sees the cop who has been joined by another officer. Harold emerges through a trap door in the gangs' lair and they attempt to beat him but Harold escapes and runs back to his apartment where a busybody thinks he is a burglar and so she calls for a cop. Harold remembers he has the train tickets tucked inside his shirt and so leaves his apartment through the open hatch above the door despite the cop waiting there. Harold inadventently walks into a courtroom where the cops surround him. Meanwhile sneaky Snub finds Bebe sitting on a bench and lifts her handbag but she catches him. Another cop comes by and takes Snub to the courthouse where he comes face to face with Harold. Snub is taken into custody as Harold quickly leaves with Bebe, hailing a cab and heading back to the waiting train. They make the train just in time but the cabbie demands to be paid and so Harold has to jump off but the train leaves with Bebe on it. Harold cons the cabbie before jumping on the moving train.

Favourite bit When Harold is playing dead and keeps shooting Snub in the back.... like a coward.

Trivia • Copyrighted July 23, 1918. • Reissued January 22, 1922. • In the opening scene Harold Lloyd is reading the Telegraph newspaper. • When Snub bumps into Sammy Brooks coming out of the store they shake hands with their left hands. • This is the oldest surving Hal Roach film with Noah Young in it. This was Noah's second film for Roach. My opinion • Now to be fair I have never been a fan of Harold Lloyd's films. I think they're all the same, crammed with too many extras and just boring. That said, I thought this one was okay.

	Harold Lloyd The boy
	Bebe Daniels The wife
	Snub Pollard Robber
	Charles Stevenson Train conductor/Messenger/Policeman
	Sammy Brooks Short detective
	William Gillespie Train passenger/Gang member/Policeman
	Fred Newmeyer Train passenger
	Gus Leonard Elderly victim
	Noah Young Second cop
	Helen Gilmore Busybody
	Lew Harvey Gang member/Train passenger
	James Parrott Gang member/Train passenger
	Max Hamburger Train passenger (he is the last one to board)
	Billy Fay Pedestrian knocked over by cop/ Desk sergeant
	Estelle Harrison Train passenger
	William Blaisdell Main policeman
	William Peterson Gang member
	Oscar Larson Gang member
	Wallace Howe [?]
	Marie Mosquini [?]
	Clara B. Anderson [?]
	Lige Conley [?]
	Maynard Laswell [?]
	Belle Mitchell [?]

UNIDENTIFIED CAST

INTERTITLES (click image to enlarge)

SHOT ON LOCATION (click any image to enlarge)

BEBE DANIELS RISQUE (click any image to enlarge)

Acknowledgements: The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia by Annette D'Agostino Lloyd (boook) Jesse Brisson (identification of Lew Harvey, Oscar Larson, William Blaisdell, William Peterson, Billy Fay, James Parrott, Max Hamburger, Fred Newmeyer, Estelle Harrison) This page was last updated on: 30 April 2022