Speedy

DVD 2015

It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) Drama

Horse-drawn vehicles Drama

Man-woman relationships Drama

New York (N.Y.) Drama

Taxicab drivers Drama

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Comedy films Drama Feature films Silent films Silent films -- United States Video recordings

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 788

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ISBN:

9781681430836
1681430835

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (86 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
DVD video 4 3/4 in
digital optical
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1

Target Audience Note:

MPAA: Not rated

Other Title:

Container of (work): Bumping into Broadway (Motion picture)

Notes:

DVD release of the 1928 motion picture, with a new 4K digital restoration
Special features: Disc 1: Commentary (with Bruce Goldstein of New York's Film Forum and Scott McGee of Turner Classic Movies). Disc 2: In the footsteps of "Speedy" (a documentary about the film's New York shoot (31 min.); Babe Ruth (selection of rare archival footage of baseball legend Babe Ruth by David Filipi); Narrated stills: deleted scenes (new visual essay featuring stills of deleted scenes from the film, narrated by Bruce Goldstein); Home movies (selection of Lloyd's home movies, narrated by Lloyd's granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd); Bumping into Broadway (a 1919 Lloyd two-reeler, newly restored with a 2004 score by Robert Israel). Insert features essay by critic Philip Lopate
Music composed by Carl Davis (1992) ; photography by Walter Lundin ; art director, L.K. Vedder ; film editor, Carl Himm ; music composed and conducted by Carl Davis ; performed by the Live Cinema Orchestra
Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Byron Douglas, Brooks Benedict
DVD, NTSC, region 1, fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 2.0
Silent film with musical accompaniment and intertitles in English

Control Number:

1689526

UPC:

715515162111

Other Authors:

Benedict, Brooks, 1896-1968, actor
Christy, Ann, 1905-1987, actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Davis, Carl, 1936-2023 composer (expression)
Douglas, Byron, 1868-1935, actor
Filipi, David, filmmaker
Goldstein, Bruce, 1952- commentator, narrator
Grey, John, 1873-1933, screenwriter
Harold Lloyd Corporation, production company
Himm, Carl, editor of moving image work
Howe, Jay A., screenwriter
Israel, Robert, 1963- composer (expression)
Janus Films, film distributor
Lloyd, Harold, 1893-1971, actor
Lloyd, Suzanne, 1934- narrator
Lopate, Phillip, 1943- writer of supplementary textual content
Lundin, Walter, director of photography
McGee, Scott, commentator
Neal, Lex, 1894-1940, screenwriter
Paramount Pictures, Inc., film distributor
Rogers, Howard Emmett, 1890-1971, screenwriter
Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948, actor
UCLA Film and Television Archive, restorationist (expression)
Vedder, Liell K., 1891-1966, art director
Wilde, Ted, 1889-1929, film director
Woodruff, Bert, 1856-1934, actor

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