Harold Lloyd Film Fest
Friday, April 18 thru Sunday, April 20, 2008

The Historic Riviera Theatre is proud to present the Harold Lloyd Film Fest. Lloyd fans won't want to miss this weekend extravaganza of vintage Harold Lloyd films as shown at The Historic Riviera Theatre where many of them were shown when they were first released. Live accompaniment on the Riviera's Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ will allow you to relive the hollywood of yesteryear. Tickets for each performance are $15 or you can purchase a festival pass for $54.00 and save $36.00.

Harold Lloyd Biography
Harold Lloyd Library
Suzanne Lloyd Biography

For more information call 692-2413.

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Jazz Age idols meet, as baseball-crazy soda jerk/cabbie Harold and passenger Babe Ruth (the Sultan of Swat playing himself) hurtle to old Yankee Stadium. Extensive New York location work is highlighted during a frenzied finale, as Harold races Gotham’s last horse-drawn trolley right through Washington Square Arch!

(1929) Mild-mannered botanist Harold Bledsoe — helps quell the San Francisco gang wars and track down Chinatown dope kingpin The Dragon. This film from Harold lloyd's Vault has now been restored by the UCLA Film And Television Archive in a glowing print that looks like it was made yesterday.

The creme de la creme of Harold's short films shown on beautiful 35mm prints by pure white carbon-arc light on a 30ft tall silver screen with accompaniment on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ. Who could ask for more?

In WHY WORRY
Rich hypochondriac Harold Lloyd's health cruise includes a blithe saunter into a Latin American revolution. Foot for foot, Lloyd's most gag-laden work, and with his greatest foil -- an eight-and-a-half foot giant.

In THE FRESHMAN
Eager-to-please frosh Harold introduces himself with a nifty-keen jig, goes broke on soda shop treats, makes the team as a tackling dummy, but finally gets his chance at the Big Game.

"For a near-perfect integration of solid story, ingenious gags, poignancy, thrill fight, madcap race, and delicate character development, The Kid Brother must be considered Lloyd's best film, the most enduring aesthetic accomplishment of his entire career." -- Adam Riley

Salesclerk Harold Lloyd's "human fly" publicity stunt goes sour when, with the real climber on the lam from a cop, he gets stuck scaling the building himself. The oft-excerpted skyscraper "clock" sequence, shot without trick photography, is a deserved legend, but only the topper to a relentless succession of priceless gags. Suzanne Lloyd, Harold's Grand Daughter and President of the Harold Lloyd Trust will introduce the Film.