The Freshman
Harold Lloyd’s biggest box-office hit was this silent comedy gem, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student. Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman’s careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be it on the football field or at the Fall Frolic. But he gets a climactic chance to prove his mettle—and impress the sweet girl he loves—in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed. This crowd-pleaser is a gleeful showcase for Lloyd’s slapstick brilliance and incandescent charm, and it is accompanied here by a new orchestral score by Carl Davis.
Special Features
- New 4K digital transfer from a 1998 restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive
- New orchestral score, composed and conducted by Carl Davis, presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll, film historian Richard Bann, and film critic Leonard Maltin
- On-camera introduction to The Freshman by Lloyd and a clip reel, both from Harold Lloyd’s Funny Side of Life (1966)
- Three newly restored Lloyd shorts: The Marathon (1919), with a new piano score by Gabriel Thibaudeau, and An Eastern Westerner and High and Dizzy (both 1920), with new orchestral scores by Davis
- Harold Lloyd: Big Man on Campus, a new visual essay on the film’s locations by Lloyd author John Bengtson
- Conversation between Correll and film historian Kevin Brownlow
- Footage from a 1963 Delta Kappa Alpha tribute to Lloyd, featuring comedian Steve Allen, director Delmer Daves, and actor Jack Lemmon
- Lloyd’s 1953 appearance on the television show What’s My Line?
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephen Winer
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Special Features
- New 4K digital transfer from a 1998 restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive
- New orchestral score, composed and conducted by Carl Davis, presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary featuring director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll, film historian Richard Bann, and film critic Leonard Maltin
- On-camera introduction to The Freshman by Lloyd and a clip reel, both from Harold Lloyd’s Funny Side of Life (1966)
- Three newly restored Lloyd shorts: The Marathon (1919), with a new piano score by Gabriel Thibaudeau, and An Eastern Westerner and High and Dizzy (both 1920), with new orchestral scores by Davis
- Harold Lloyd: Big Man on Campus, a new visual essay on the film’s locations by Lloyd author John Bengtson
- Conversation between Correll and film historian Kevin Brownlow
- Footage from a 1963 Delta Kappa Alpha tribute to Lloyd, featuring comedian Steve Allen, director Delmer Daves, and actor Jack Lemmon
- Lloyd’s 1953 appearance on the television show What’s My Line?
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephen Winer
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Cast
- Harold Lloyd
- The freshman
- Jobyna Ralston
- Peggy
- Brooks Benedict
- The college cad
- James Anderson
- The college hero
- Hazel Keener
- The college belle
- Joseph Harrington
- The college tailor
- Pat Harmon
- The football coach
Credits
- Director
- Sam Taylor
- Director
- Fred Newmeyer
- Story by
- Sam Taylor
- Story by
- Ted Wilde
- Story by
- John Grey
- Story by
- Tim Whelan
- Photographed by
- Walter Lundin
- Assisted by
- Henry N. Kohler
- Production manager
- John L. Murphy
- Assistant director
- Robert A. Golden
- Film editor
- Allen McNeil
- Art director
- Liell K. Vedder
- Technical director
- William MacDonald
- Produced by
- Harold Lloyd Corporation
- Produced by
- William R. Fraser, general manager
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