Certificate: Passed After a meeting with the animal handlers and circus freaks, Harold first seeks help from the Kitt-Poo Home for Cats to feed the circus' starving lions and tigers. Title: Calling this film brilliant isn't strong enough. What will happen when the ruse is discovered? When the rest of the town's bankers follow suit, Harold comes up with an idea. [3], In 1951, Harold Lloyd received a Golden Globe nomination as "Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy", and the film was nominated for Grand Prize at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. A worried Wormy then rushes up and informs Harold that, with winnings from a second bet, Harold also bought a bankrupt circus. In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume. A man dreams of revenge when he suspects his wife is unfaithful. Rated the #117 best film of 1947. Comedy. Directed by: Preston Sturges. United Artists backed out of their distribution deal with Hughes, so after Hughes bought RKO, he used his new studio to release the film, now cut from 89 to 76 minutes, on 28 October 1950. To get past the bank guards, Harold dresses up in his plaid suit and brings along Jackie, a tame circus lion, who incites panic. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock is a 'coming of age' story which takes a comic look at a tragic character - the American worker who, after being used up by his employer of over twenty years, is forced into retirement with nowhere to turn and no options for his future. Both versions of the film, as originally released and as altered by Hughes, still exist. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock Synopsis A fired bookkeeper (Harold Lloyd) gets drunk, gambles and buys a circus. Yes Sir! Watch later. He bids farewell to Miss Otis (Frances Ramsden), a young woman who works at an artist's desk down the aisle, giving her the paid-for engagement ring that he had, having planned to marry each of her six older sisters (Hortense, Irma, Harriet, Margie, Claire, and Rosemary) when they had worked there before her. Harold celebrates with another "Diddlebock", and again has another relapse. By the time that filming wrapped on 29 January 1946, the film was $600,000 over budget. Although Harold dreams of becoming an "ideas man," Waggleberry assigns him to a lowly position in the bookkeeping department. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) HAROLD LLOYD - YouTube. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock is an american film directed by Preston Sturges, released in 1947. Seeing the large amount of cash that Harold has, and hoping to get him drunk enough to acquire some of the cash, Wormy takes the depressed and unemployed Harold to a local bar for a drink. The Dylan lyric "to laugh and cry in a single sound" fits because at the end of the film if your heartstrings are not being strummed then you may not be living.Lloyd is an everyman squashed by life who encounters a bartender and asks for his first drink, ever. Miss Otis: Yes, I know, I mean that you fell in love with her. That film, a Harold Lloyd vehicle entitled The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947), for which Sturges had coaxed the silent film icon out of retirement, went over budget and far behind schedule, and was poorly received when it was released. Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. Temperamental saloon singer Freddie Jones, jealously shoots at her cheating boyfriend Blackie but mistakenly hits Judge Alfalfa J. O'Toole's honorable behind, forcing her to skip town under the guise of a schoolteacher. [7], "The Sin of Harold Diddlebock" (Allmovie), "Pinto Colvig Seen In Featured Role on Holly Screen", "Festival de Cannes: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock", List of actors who frequently worked with Preston Sturges, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Sin_of_Harold_Diddlebock&oldid=1009179754, Films with screenplays by Preston Sturges, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Although the film explicitly connects the character of Harold Diddlebock to that in. Info. He wanders out, aimlessly through the streets, his life's savings in his trouser pocket. While looking through the newspaper want ads for another job, Harold is approached by Wormy (Jimmy Conlin), a local con artist, petty gambler, and racetrack tout, who asks Harold for some money so he can place a bet. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) HAROLD LLOYD. The film's story is a continuation of The Freshman, one of Lloyd's most successful movies. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock pairs two of my favorite film legends--Preston Sturges and Harold Lloyd--in a combination that should have resulted in cinematic gold. Wednesday was RUGGED! Shopping. [3][4], After writer-director Preston Sturges left Paramount Pictures in 1944, he and millionaire Howard Hughes formed California Pictures, and in July of that year it was reported that Sturges had tempted one of his idols, Harold Lloyd, out of retirement to become a producer-director at the new studio, with his first project to be "The Sin of Hilda Diddlebock", a story written by Sturges about a girl's adventures in Hollywood, and their second project a film called "The Wizard of Whispering Falls" (Lloyd had not appeared on film since 1938's Professor Beware). 19 of 24 people found this review helpful. He is given an 18 karat Swiss watch that is 'properly inscribed "with gratitude and love and kisses for 20 years devoted services"' and a check for $2,946.12, the remains of his company investment plan. This FAQ is empty. Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home. Despite Sturges' later claim that the film "got the best reviews I ever received," the notices were mixed and commented on the unevenness of the comedy, perhaps the result of the falling out between Sturges and Lloyd. This video is a side-by-side comparison of the two versions of Preston Sturges' 1946 production THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK, re-released (and re-edited) by Howard Hughes as MAD WEDNESDAY. He finds that he has a hangover, but he also has a garish new wardrobe and a ten-gallon cowboy hat. The only trouble with this take on the film was that it was usually an opinion voiced by … Lloyd also was resposible for performing all his own stunts. The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica. Two decades after a game-winning touchdown and praise as a college football hero, the once hopeful Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd) has been beaten down by the drudgery of office life. According to Harold's plan, the three (Harold, Wormy, and Jackie the Lion) are arrested and thrown in jail. The Sin of Harold Diddleback (1947) Comedy Full Movie - YouTube. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock ★★ ½ Mad Wednesday 1947A man gets fired from his job, stumbles around drunk, and wins a fortune gambling. Approved | 1h 29min | Comedy | 4 April 1947 (USA) Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. California Pictures was a new company and didn't have adequate facilities to make the film, so Sturges attempted to buy Sherman Studios. One such case of a film fading away into obscurity is The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. It was intended to return the film to distribution as soon as October, and a special effects crew was sent to San Francisco to film process shots to be used in the film's re-editing.[1]. 3.6 out of 5 stars37 ratings. When the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. Was this review helpful to you? THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK became a film discussed with a wagging of the head, an object lesson in what happens when two geniuses collide, an alleged artistic disaster. In the event, because of Hughes' re-editing of the film and re-shooting of some scenes – Sturges said that Hughes "[left] out all the parts I considered the best in the picture, and adding to its end a talking horse" – the film was not ready for re-release until 1950. [1], In May, it was reported that Hughes was running a contest for his employees to find a shorter name for the film, with the winner to get $250; the next month, after it had only played in three cities, the film was pulled from circulation and its name changed to Mad Wednesday, because of concerns that the word "sin" in the title would hold back the film's box office from the "family trade". A few days later, Harold wakes up on the sofa inside the house of his widowed sister Flora (Margaret Hamilton) where she chastises him for his wild, irresponsible behavior. Is a continuation of the Freshman, one of Lloyd 's most successful movies the sin of harold diddlebock filming wrapped 29... 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