ThiefHott Too much of everything

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

mark.waltz Harold Lloyd is the quiet, unassuming Harold Diddlebock, the hard working clerk, who all of a sudden looses his job after becoming too complacent. A sip of that devil's brew all of a sudden breaks the shy man out of his skin, and before you know it, he's going all over Manhattan, buying a fancy new wardrobe, taking the clothing store workers for a night out on the town, and then waking up to find out that he's purchased a circus! Determined to get rid of this white elephant, Diddlebock heads all over town to various bankers in an attempt to get rid of it, utilizing a tamed lion as a walking prop, and ending up fighting for his life when stranded on a skyscraper ledge with the king of the jungle.A notorious flop in its day, "The Sins of Harold Diddlebock" stands the test of time, and like a dozen of other films from its era, comes off better now than it did at the time. Dozens of the best comical actors of movie history appear here in various character bits, from Edgar Kennedy as the frazzled bartender, Jimmy Conlin as his broke pal, Margaret Hamilton as his frustrated landlady, as well as Lionel Stander, Raymond Walburn, Rudy Vallee and Franklin Pangborn in other memorable parts. The film starts off with a flashback to Lloyd's silent classic "The Freshman" which shows the character during his college days, then moves to the present, taking the viewer all over New York as Harold goes through a night he'll never remember and a day after he'll never forget.The film's funniest sequence has Lloyd scaring every banker and bank customer they encounter with the lion and the beast's mad dash up a fire escape which leads to the frenetic finale where Lloyd repeats a similar visual gag from "Safety Last". Obviously set on Wall Street (with Trinity Church in the distance), this is just as potent as it was in its original, a sequence spoofed in such films as "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "The Naked Gun".

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.

Petri Pelkonen In 1947 Preston Sturges and Harold Lloyd worked together and they came up with The Sin of Harold Diddlebock.It's a sequel for Lloyd's silent film classic The Freshman (1925).After this movie Mr.Lloyd retired from the movie business.In his last picture Harold plays a clerk who's fired from his job after twenty years.He ends up to a bar drinking and the man goes crazy.Also a lion in tow gets in a picture and lots of other funny stuff happens on a way.This movie may not be the best of Harold Lloyd, not even close, but it's mighty entertaining.And because of Harold Lloyd this movie works much better than it would have with some average comedian.Lloyd was far from average.He was Lonesome Luke and he was Glasses, which was the character that made him immortal.Lloyd may steal the show in this movie, but there are other great actors there.I could mention Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn, Rudy Wallee and Edgar Kennedy.I recommend you to watch this film from 60 years back.For the Harold Lloyd fans it's a must.

Rob Williams This film drags in some parts, and Lloyd I think puts off some modern viewers. The first time I watched it I thought it was the film equivalent of seeing Ali vs. Andre the Giant. But Sturges' brilliance is in here, and the degree to which it is derived from Lloyd is paid homage to in a wonderful, dark, surreal way. How can you not love a film that starts with the last moments of Lloyd's The Freshman and then shows the hero turned into a mail room stooge who gets buried by the corporate system? The ending is wonderfully hypnotic, happy? Well as is always the case, the poor down trodden guy figures out how to operate the machine just enough to produce his own deus ex machina. Sturges and Lloyd look more brilliant and visionary than ever from the vantage point of post-Enron, MCI, etc.