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The City Slicker
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Wikipedia article
'The City Slicker' is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Prints of the film survive in the film archive of the Library of Congress.
Plot
Harold arrives in the backward town of Punkville by train to answer a classified ad offering employment for an eager young man who can modernize an antiquated hotel. Within a short time Harold has modernized the inn, including having rooms where the furniture. beds, telephones and bathtubs emerge from the walls. Bebe arrives at the hotel accompanied by her somewhat overbearing mother. Harold is attracted to her and helps her thwart and unwanted and much older suitor.
Cast
* Harold Lloyd as Harold
* Snub Pollard as Snub (as Harry Pollard)
* Bebe Daniels as The Girl
* Helen Gilmore as Girl's Mother
* William Blaisdell as Bebe's rejected suitor
* Gus Alexander
* Sammy Brooks
* Lige Conley (as Lige Cromley)
* Billy Fay
* William Gillespie
* Wallace Howe
* Dee Lampton as Driver
* Gus Leonard as Old man playing checkers
* Charles Stevenson (as Charles E. Stevenson)
See also
* List of American films of 1918
* Harold Lloyd filmography
References
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