The City Slicker Directed By Gilbert Pratt
The City Slicker Directed byGilbert PrattProduced byHal RoachStarringHarold LloydRelease date June 2, 1918 Running time12 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent English intertitles The City Slicker is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Prints of the film survive in the film archive of the Library of Congress.[1] PlotHarold arrives in the backward town of Punkville by train to answer a classified ad offering employment for an eager young man who can modernize an antiquated hotel. Within a short time Harold has modernized the inn, including having rooms where the furniture. beds, telephones and bathtubs emerge from the walls. Bebe arrives at the hotel accompanied by her somewhat overbearing mother. Harold is attracted to her and helps her thwart and unwanted and much older suitor. CastHarold Lloyd as HaroldSnub Pollard as Snub (as Harry Pollard)Bebe Daniels as The GirlHelen Gilmore as Girl's MotherWilliam Blaisdell as Bebe's rejected suitorGus AlexanderSammy BrooksLige Conley (as Lige Cromley)Billy FayWilliam GillespieWallace HoweDee Lampton as DriverGus Leonard as Old man playing checkersCharles Stevenson (as Charles E. Stevenson)References1 "Progressive Silent Film List: The City Slicker". Silent Era. Retrieved April 3, 2010. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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