For Heaven's Sake | 1926 | Silent comedy

Title: For Heaven's Sake | 1926 | Silent comedy Director: Sam Taylor Studio: Harold Lloyd Corporation Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Noah Young, Jim Mason, Paul Weigel Release Date: April 5, 1926 Runtime: 60 minutes Format: Silent, black-and-white; English intertitles; Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1; 6 reels Country: United States Language: Silent Genres: Silent comedy --- Chapters: 00:00:00 Uptown heir introduced 00:10:00 Coffee cart incident 00:22:00 Mission tour and courtship 00:34:00 Chase fills the pews 00:47:00 Abduction before the wedding 00:54:00 Drunken rescue and mission wedding --- Summary: Wealthy J. Harold Manners blunders into the city’s skid row and, after accidentally setting a charity coffee stand ablaze, pays for the damages—only to find his “donation” has funded a new mission bearing his name. Visiting to protest, he meets the mission worker Hope and is drawn into helping her attract the neighborhood’s toughs to the pews, using his flair for provocation to turn a chase into a congregation. As Harold and Hope plan to marry at the mission, his high-society friends abduct him to stop the union. A raucous rescue by his newfound roughneck allies leads to a chaotic dash back to the mission, where order is finally restored and the couple marries. --- Background: Produced by the Harold Lloyd Corporation and directed by Sam Taylor, For Heaven’s Sake was Harold Lloyd’s first film distributed by Paramount Pictures. The production saw significant material shot and later discarded, with elements repurposed in Lloyd’s Speedy . Despite Lloyd’s reservations, the film became one of his major successes, with contemporary accounts citing strong box-office performance. --- Trivia: The film premiered in New York on April 4, 1926, with general U.S. release the next day. Physical length is listed at 5,356 feet across six reels. Key collaborators included cinematographer Walter Lundin and editor Allen McNeil. Contemporary sources reported grosses of approximately $2.6 million, placing it among the silent era’s top earners. Standard release format was 35mm at a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. --- Public Domain / Rights: Original Release: April 5, 1926 Original Studio / Distributor: Harold Lloyd Corporation / Paramount Pictures Copyright Status: Public Domain Renewal: Unknown --- Hashtags: ForHeavensSake HaroldLloyd SilentFilm ClassicCinema PublicDomain 1926 Comedy Source page: https: //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:For_Heaven%27s_Sake_(1926).webm Direct media URL: https: //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/For_Heaven%27s_Sake_%281926%29.webm