Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "An Eastern Westerner" is a 24-minute black-and-white short film from 1920, so it will soon have its 100th anniversary. The names Hal Roach, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis and Noah Young will tell you immediately that this is a black-and-white silent film if the production year hasn't already. Of course, it is an American movie and except Young (who wasn't much older) all the protagonists I mentioned earlier were still under the age of 30, but very successful already in their respective fields, despite the age. Western films were apparently very popular already at this point (shortly after World War I) and this movie here has several western scenes and components in terms of costumes and sets for example. But the story is not really that good. I do believe that silent film superstar Lloyd had decent comedic talent, but nothing really made a difference in his purely comedic films. He was at his best when he could bring in some emotion and manage to evoke strong feelings of joy or sadness in his audience. This component is missing here entirely I must say. That's why I give it a thumbs down, even if it is among Lloyd's most known short films. Not recommended.

tavm This is yet another Harold Lloyd comedy short I watched on the Kino DVD called "The Harold Lloyd Collection". In this one, Harold is a party boy who has worked the last nerve of his father so he sends his boy out west. It's there that we meet a big bully (Noah Young) who threatens a girl he employs (Mildred Davis, later to be Mrs. Lloyd) that he'll keep her father locked up unless she agrees to marry him. Guess who comes to the rescue. I'll stop there and just say how hilarious I found the whole thing from the "shimmying" Harold does at the beginning to the chase he gets from a group of white-sheeted men who resemble a certain white supremacist group. Besides those acrobatics, there's also a funny disguise on Lloyd's part as he tries to win a card game and some mishaps with a horse that seems to win some of Davis' heart as she laughs at him sympathetically. In short, I highly recommend An Eastern Westerner.

RainDogJr This was just the second work of Harold Lloyd that I watched and definitely my second pleasant experience. This time Harold plays a common, maybe wealthy boy who enjoys being outside and in consequence his family is always worried. Meanwhile his mother thinks that he is studying he is dancing but also dealing with some problematic situations. So the boy is always in troubles, if not because he is not dancing in a calm way (very funny!) because he arrives home at 2 am. Our story really begins when his family decides that has been enough of having nights of concern and the father sends the boy to the West. There the boy will find only more problematic situations.This short film is classic stuff so there, in the West, they boy will meet a girl who has a big problem and who will end with him. This is funny, first because Lloyd is a New York City boy and he will try to impress the girl by imitating the ones of the West. Is also funny because Lloyd wants to be the smart one by tricking first the girl and later some men, who are playing with him a cards game, and his "plans" almost are successful in both cases however he never impressed the girl (in his second attempt the things are even worst!) and he ends losing in the cards game. So how is that the boy ends with the girl, in that marvelous last sequence? Well, of course the boy helped her with that problem by facing the crazy town villain and after that we watch some more really fun stuff. Lloyd knows how to hide behind the persons and that will help when he needs to "fight" against many!

raskimono Before I start, I have to complain about the person who has put up that Harold Lloyd mini-biography on all the comments about his movie. It does not attempt to review the movie, maybe the it hasn't seen it but what is so monotonous is that the bio is the same one. Frustrating by all means. Anyway to the movie which is light on its feet and uses a dramatic set-up which has few laughs to get the up-to-no-good big city boy who ends up in the country where this situational comedy takes ground. Harold always billed as "the boy" meets "the girl" as they were all billed and this comic oater takes off as Harold has to battle the bad guys which ends with a furious chase to a train as the girl tries to defend him. Not great Lloyd but you could do worse.