Film Forum

U.S., 1928
Directed by Ted Wilde
Starring Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff
Approx. 85 min.

Jazz Age Idols meet, as baseball-crazed soda jerk/cabbie Harold Lloyd and passenger Babe Ruth hurtle to old Yankee Stadium. Extensive NYC location work is highlighted during a frenzied finale, as Harold races Gotham’s last horse-drawn trolley right through Washington Square Arch!

Reviews

“No filmmaker had ever made such flamboyant use of New York.”
– Kevin Brownlow

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