Speedy
Speedy 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 streetcar, which is operated by his sweetheart’s crusty grandfather. From its joyous visit to Coney Island to its incredible Babe Ruth cameo to its hair-raising climactic stunts on the city’s streets, Speedy is an out-of-control love letter to New York that will have you grinning from ear to ear.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration from elements preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive
- Musical score by composer Carl Davis from 1992, synchronized and restored under his supervision and presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring Bruce Goldstein, director of repertory programming at New York’s Film Forum, and Turner Classic Movies director of program production Scott McGee
- In the Footsteps of “Speedy,” a new short documentary by Goldstein about the film’s New York shoot
- Selection of rare archival footage from UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Hearst Newsreel Collection of baseball legend Babe Ruth, who has a cameo in the film, presented by David Filipi, director of film and video at the Wexner Center for the Arts
- New visual essay featuring stills of deleted scenes from the film and narrated by Goldstein
- Selection of actor Harold Lloyd’s home movies, narrated by his granddaughter, Suzanne Lloyd
- Bumping into Broadway, a 1919 Lloyd two-reeler, newly restored and with a 2004 score by Robert Israel
- PLUS: An essay by critic Phillip Lopate
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration from elements preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive
- Musical score by composer Carl Davis from 1992, synchronized and restored under his supervision and presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring Bruce Goldstein, director of repertory programming at New York’s Film Forum, and Turner Classic Movies director of program production Scott McGee
- In the Footsteps of “Speedy,” a new short documentary by Goldstein about the film’s New York shoot
- Selection of rare archival footage from UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Hearst Newsreel Collection of baseball legend Babe Ruth, who has a cameo in the film, presented by David Filipi, director of film and video at the Wexner Center for the Arts
- New visual essay featuring stills of deleted scenes from the film and narrated by Goldstein
- Selection of actor Harold Lloyd’s home movies, narrated by his granddaughter, Suzanne Lloyd
- Bumping into Broadway, a 1919 Lloyd two-reeler, newly restored and with a 2004 score by Robert Israel
- PLUS: An essay by critic Phillip Lopate
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Cast
- Harold Lloyd
- Harold “Speedy” Swift
- Ann Christy
- Jane Dillon
- Bert Woodruff
- Pop Dillon
- Babe Ruth
- Himself
- Byron Douglas
- W. S. Wilton
- Brooks Benedict
- Steve Carter
Credits
- Director
- Ted Wilde
- Produced by
- Harold Lloyd Corporation
- Produced by
- William R. Fraser, general manager
- Story and scenario by
- John Grey
- Story and scenario by
- Lex Neal
- Story and scenario by
- Howard Rogers
- Story and scenario by
- Jay Howe
- Photography
- Walter Lundin
- Titles by
- Albert DeMond
- Production manager
- John L. Murphy
- Special photography
- H. Kohler
- Assistant director
- Gaylord Lloyd
- Art director
- L. K. Vedder
- Technical director
- William MacDonald
- Editor
- Carl Himm
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A scene from Speedy
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