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Smiles and
Spectacles
A Harold Lloyd Treasury
(1917-1947)

Contents: DISC ONE: All Aboard! (1917), Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918), The City Slicker (1918), The Non Stop Kid (1918), Two Gun Gussie (1918), A Sammy in Siberia (1919), Ask Father (1919), Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919), Bumping into Broadway (1919), Don’t Shove! (1919) and Captain Kidd’s Kids (1919); DISC TWO: Just Neighbors (1919), From Hand to Mouth (1919), His Royal Slyness (1919), An Eastern Westerner (1920), High and Dizzy (1920) and Number, Please? (1920); DISC THREE: Now or Never (1921), Among Those Present (1921) and Grandma’s Boy (1922); DISC FOUR: Dogs of War! (1923) and The Milky Way (1936); DISC FIVE: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947), Character Studies (1923), and Hollywood Hist-o-Rama (1961).

Passport Video
2007 DVD edition

Smiles and Spectacles: A Harold Lloyd Treasury (1917-1947), black & white, 600 minutes total, not rated, including All Aboard! (1917), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918), black & white, 14 minutes, not rated, The City Slicker (1918), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, The Non Stop Kid (1918), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Two Gun Gussie (1918), black & white, 11 minutes, not rated, Ask Father (1919), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919), black & white, 12 minutes, not rated, Bumping into Broadway (1919), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, Captain Kidd’s Kids (1919), black & white, 22 minutes, not rated, Don’t Shove! (1919), black & white, 9 minutes, not rated, From Hand to Mouth (1919), black & white, 20 minutes, not rated, His Royal Slyness (1919), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, Just Neighbors (1919), black & white, 13 minutes, not rated, A Sammy in Siberia (1919), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, An Eastern Westerner (1920), black & white, 24 minutes, not rated, High and Dizzy (1920), black & white, 25 minutes, not rated, Number, Please? (1920), black & white, 23 minutes, not rated, Among Those Present (1921), black & white, 39 minutes, not rated, Now or Never (1921), black & white, 35 minutes, not rated, Grandma’s Boy (1922), black & white, 61 minutes, not rated, Dogs of War! (1923), black & white, 26 minutes, not rated, Character Studies (1923), color-toned black & white, 10 minutes, not rated, The Milky Way (1936), black & white, 88 minutes, not rated, and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947), black & white, 89 minutes, not rated.

Passport Video, DVD-5160, UPC 0-25493-51609-8.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (five DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; double-wide five-disc DVD keepcase; $19.98.
Release date: 13 February 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This budget DVD collection has mainly been mastered from 16mm print materials of varying quality.

For our comparative reviews of the individual films in this collection, see our All Aboard! on home video, Among Those Present on home video, Are Crooks Dishonest? on home video, Ask Father on home video, Billy Blazes, Esq. on home video, Bumping into Broadway on home video, Captain Kidd’s Kids on home video, Character Studies on home video, The City Slicker on home video, Dogs of War on home video, Don’t Shove! on home video, An Eastern Westerner on home video, From Hand to Mouth on home video, Grandma’s Boy on home video, High and Dizzy on home video, His Royal Slyness on home video, Just Neighbors on home video, The Non Stop Kid on home video, Now or Never on home video, Number, Please? on home video, A Sammy in Siberia on home video and Two Gun Gussie on home video pages.

Not a horrid edition, and there are a few films here that are not available elsewhere, but not comparable to other Lloyd editions from Criterion, New Line, and Kino International.

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