The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Silent film · 89 min · dir. Preston Sturges
Yes Sir! Wednesday was WILD! Wednesday was RUGGED!
- Comedy
Synopsis
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Writer
- Preston Sturges
- Composer
- Werner R. Heymann
- Cinematography
- Robert Pittack
- Studio
- United Artists
- Released
- 1947-04-04
- Running time
- 89 minutes
Cast & crew
Preston Sturges Director
Jimmy Conlin
Rudy Vallée
Lionel Stander
Edgar Kennedy
Margaret Hamilton
Harold Lloyd
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Harold Lloyd · DrPretorious · 2007-06-13
A tip to this generation of movie buffs - discover Harold Lloyd! His final film is a goodbye to a physical comedian who broke performed high wire comedy, literally. His early silents are out on DvD and are priceless ( hanging from the arm of a clock stories up from the ground realtime! " safety last " } if you enjoy early 20th century screwball antics and slapstick Lloyd set the standard. Diddlebock is a nice farewell to one of the greatest.
★★★★★ · One of my all time favorites · jimelena · 2007-06-06
The description given is good, sort of. This version of the film is the one Howard Hughes mutilated. So it's not as good as the original. But still, it's very funny. Later Danny Kaye made a much worse remake. The movie itself is very clever in a number of ways due to the genius of the star and director; too factoids to go into. Watch it and see if you don't like it.
