Catalogue of Pathépictures Selected for Educational, Religious and Social Groups (1925)

PATHEPICTURES 21 Comedy Harold Lloyd Comedies Harold Lloyd needs neither introduction nor a preliminary blare of 'trumpets. His clean, lively, agile fun is known to all users of motion pictures. The subjects treated in his comedies are numerous and diversified and they range in length from one to eight reels. HOT WATER (M., H.S.) 5 Reels Harold was a confirmed bachelor until accident threw a pretty girl in his arms and precipitated him into matrimony — and Hot Water. Harold's wife was all any man could want his wife to be, but her managing mother, her officious big brother and her obnoxious small one lived in the same town and around Harold's struggle with his in-laws centers this riotious story. GIRL SHY (M., H.S., J., Ch.) 8 Reels Harold Meadows was so shy that he had cold chills and his knees knocked together every time he saw a girl. In intention he was dashing and masterful and debonair, and he wrote a book telling other young men how to make love and how to be winners with the weaker sex. Then Harold fell in love and forgot his shyness, but the publishers rejected his book and he couldn't afford to get married. He couldn't afford even to be engaged and the girl promised to marry someone else. On her wedding day Harold received a letter saying his book would be published as "The Diary of a Boob." He also learned something about the bridegroom and he reached the girl's side by methods that made all recordbreaking trips look like tortoise races — and rescued her and married her himself. WHY WORRY? (M., H.S., J., Ch.) 6 Reels Harold Van Pelham was so rich that he had nothing to do but think about himself and the many ills he imagined he had. In search of health, and accompanied by his nurse and valet, Harold goes to the tropics, landing in the town of Paradiso the day a revolution starts. He is thrown in jail with a giant whose toothache bothers him more than imprisonment. Soon after they break jail, Harold pulls the tooth out and thereafter the young millionaire, his nurse and the grateful giant are so busy routing the revolutionists that Harold forgets his ills and his pills. He can't get along without his nurse, however, so he marries her. SAFETY LAST (M., H.S.) 7 Reels When Harold went to the city to make his fortune he promised the Only Girl to come back for her as soon as he was able. Harold was an incurable optimist and wrote such cheerful letters that the girl decided he needed someone to look after him and his money and went to the city to do it. Something had to be done and Harold put his mind upon ways and means of getting money quickly. The store needed publicity and offered one thousand dollars for an idea. Harold's pal was a human fly and Harold induced him to climb from the street to the top of a tall office building across from the store. The "pal" was to get five hundred for climbing and Harold five hundred for the idea. Plans miscarried and Harold had to climb the twelve stories amid more slips and hazards than any young man trying to win a bride ever encountered. He finally reached the roof, where the girl awaited him and the thousand paid for a wedding and started the happy pair to housekeeping. DOCTOR JACK (M., H.S., J., Ch.) 5 Reels This most amusing comedy has an underlying truth that will make a universal appeal. Dr. Jack is a young country doctor who cures all his patients by gratifying their desires. In the city the poor little rich girl has been in the care of a specialist for four years, who does not desire her to get well. Her father's lawyer, however, recommends Dr. Jack, who has cured his mother in the country and he is called to the city in consultation. He gives her the two things she has always wanted and never been allowed to have — sunshine and excitement. The latter he supplies by pretending to be a maniac who has escaped from a nearby asylum. The specialist is shown up as a coward and a quack and the girl is cured, and young Dr. Jack becomes her physician for life by marrying her.