The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

1947 "Yes Sir! Wednesday was WILD! Wednesday was RUGGED!"

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

6.4 | 1h32m | NR | en | Comedy

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?

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6.4 | 1h32m | NR | en | Comedy | More Info

Released: April. 04,1947 | Released Producted By: United Artists , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Harold Lloyd , Jimmy Conlin , Raymond Walburn

Director

Robert Usher

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Cast

Harold Lloyd

as Harold Diddlebock

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Jimmy Conlin

as Wormy

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Raymond Walburn

as E.J. Waggleberry

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Reviews

SimonJack Harold Lloyd came out of retirement after nine years to make "The Sin of Harold Diddlebock." The 53-year old actor reprised one of his building ledge scenarios from his much younger days in silent films ("Safety Last" of 1923). Lloyd is unquestionably the master of the high ledge antics. He's so good, and the filming of his scenes is so real that I've always been on the edge of my seat when watching those nail-biters.Preston Sturges wrote and directed this wacky film. He may have been able to lure Lloyd back to work for one more film. After an opening scenario on the football field (a replay from "The Freshman" of 1925), the plot slows down and quickly becomes dull. But, when it picks back up Harold gets up a head of steam that leads to the climax with the great ledge hanging scenes. The film has a good supporting cast. It's not the funniest script but it has some raucously funny sections. The ledge-hanging scenes alone make it worthwhile. Lloyd made 214 films in his career that began in 1913. All but eight of those were silent films made before 1929. Most movies made in the early days of the silent era were short films. They would vary from 10 minutes to more than 35. Shorts today are films with a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all the credits.

Karl Ericsson Surprisingly honest beginning showing what a swinery capitalism is. Then Everything turns silly and Lloyd does what he has done better elsewhere.I'm not surprised it turned out that way though. Had it continued like the beginning, we would have had the best socialist Comedy ever perhaps. That could of course not happen in a film financed by capitalists. Pity anyway.Begins in decency and ends in a snore - that's the size of it. And for the rest, I would have to say with the utmost sincirety, I guess, I would have to say: Yada, yada, yada, umpa and so fill out my lines - jaussa.

PWNYCNY This movie is billed as a comedy but the story gives little cause for laughter. Instead the movie dramatizes the plight of workers who labor for years in utter obscurity, buried alive in huge bureaucracies where they labor and are then discarded like a worthless commodity. That is not funny, even if it's Harold Loyd acting the role and Preston Sturges as the director. At first the movie seems to be little more than a cheap two-reeler, almost amateurish in its production. But after a while it becomes apparent that the movie contains a subliminal message relating to the human condition and how people have to become almost crazy in order to break through the shackles that smother their individuality and creativity. This theme does not inspire laughter. Indeed it is baffling why this movie was made at all.

ppak11 Thank you Preston Sturges for this little hidden treasure. This movie evolves from scene to scene slowly and gracefully in some places and abruptly and catastrophically in others. It is like life and it is not like life. Harold Lloyd is brilliant throughout. The action packed football scene sets the stage, part Three Stooges part WC Fields. There are scenes in this movie that are at the pinnacle of comedy -seriously the best comedy of all time! (See the bartender scene, the take my circus scene, the form fit Franklin for the fit phenomenal scene, the your fired scene) then there are places where the pacing wanes for you to catch your breath and better enjoy what is to come. The lessons to live by involve accepting a little risk. I love this movie. Anyone who has ever mistrusted a banker should love this movie too.