Series: Lonesome Luke
Director: Hal Roach
Producer: Hal Roach
Titles: 
Photography: Walter Lundin
Editor: 
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard
Company: Pathé Exchange
Released: 05 Aug 1917
Length: 2 reels
Production No.: A-34
Filming dates: February 16 - March 1917
Rating: 1/10
Lonesome Luke, Messenger
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Luke (HAROLD LLOYD) has sneaked off for a cigarette and playing cards with fellow-telegram messenger Snub (POLLARD) when the boss catches them both and orders them back to work. A customer has come in to ask for a telegram to be delivered to his wife so Luke gets on his bicycle and hooks onto the back of the man's car. Snub is out getting lunch for his boss and as he rides back to the office with the food balanced on a tray on his head, it is gradually eaten by a man riding in the back of a truck. Luke and Snub are assigned the delivery of some items to the Orange Blossom Seminary School for girls, so off they ride on their tandem. They arrive at the school when BEBE DANIELS grabs Luke and ushers him inside, only for him to be quickly ejected by the matron! A paperhanger (BUD JAMISON) grabs Snub to fill in for him as an assistant, whilst Luke tries to get back into the school after becoming entangled with some telephone cables. Luke and the paperhanger wreck a room whilst fighting around a piano, as Snub gets physically ejected by the school matron for his part in exercising with the girls. Luke crawls up inside the fire place and into the girls' dorm where he finds Bebe and another young lady. He can't decide which one he wants so he blindfolds himself in order to choose. The girls run off as a mistress (DOROTHEA WOLBERT) enters the room and is grabbed by Luke. The two girls are led away as Luke goes back to 'work'. Luke escapes from the upstairs window by climbing along a telegraph wire and then returns to the school again where he is mobbed by all the girls. He is then chased out of the school once and for all... [this is where my review copy of the film ends] |
| Trivia • The 59th film in the series to be released. • The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia lists the film as 2-reels, but only 10 minutes of the film was available for review. This would indicate that either Annette's information is inaccurate or I only have half of the film! My opinion • Utter nonsense. Stupid story, continuity and boring. Harold Lloyd with stupid eyebrows and another cast list of hundreds of people completely unnecessary for a film that is only 10 minutes in length. Ridiculous. The film is excruciatingly painful to watch with a pointless plot and an all-too-brief appearance from Bebe Daniels. |
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Harold Lloyd Lonesome Luke, messenger |
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Bebe Daniels The fairest rosebud |
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Snub Pollard Messenger |
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Gilbert Pratt Telegram customer/ Man smoking outside school |
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Gus Leonard Messenger/Gym instructor |
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Fred C. Newmeyer School teacher with whiskers/ Bespectacled messenger |
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Billy Fay Messenger office manager |
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Nina Speight School girl |
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Bud Jamison Paperhanger boss |
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Charles Stevenson Food thief |
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Margaret Joslin School matron |
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Dorothea Wolbert Bespectacled school mistress |
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Evelyn Page Bebe's friend (she hides under the bed with her) |
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W.L. Adams Man knocked off ladder |
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Sammy Brooks Telegram messenger at school |
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David Voorhees Tall messenger |
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Harry Todd School official |
Mabel Ballard [?] |
Max Hamburger [?] |
Harry Rindfleish [?] |
Vivian DeLadd [?] |
Mabel Gibson [?] |
Lois LaPearl [?] |
Zetta Robson [?] |
Alta Davis [?] |
Beth Darwin [?] |
Clara Dray [?] |
Loretta Dray [?] |
Lena Morris [?] |
Virginia Baynes [?] |
Lillian Sylvester [?] |
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UNIDENTIFIED Secretary (opening scene) |
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UNIDENTIFIED School woman #2 |
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UNIDENTIFIED School woman #3 |
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UNIDENTIFIED School woman #6 |
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UNIDENTIFIED Lady boarding streetcar |
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UNIDENTIFIED Telegraph pole man |
| CREDITS (click image to enlarge) | INTERTITLES (click image to enlarge) |
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| Acknowledgements: The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia by Annette D'Agostino Lloyd (book) John Benson (additional material) Jesse Brisson (identification of W.L. Adams, David Voorhees, Fred Newmeyer, Gilbert Pratt, Nina Speight, Margaret Joslin, Evelyn Paige, Harry Todd) This page was last updated on: 28 August 2024 |