Speedy
2015
DVD
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.
Item Details
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.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC2562D
- 11439176
Control Number: 1689526
UPC:
- 715515162111
- 715515162111
Series:
Subjects:
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.
- Horse-drawn vehicles -- Drama.
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Drama.
- Taxicab drivers -- Drama.
Genre:
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.