The Flirt Directed By Billy Gilbert

The FlirtDirected byBilly GilbertWritten byH.M. WalkerProduced byHal RoachStarringHarold LloydCinematographyWalter LundinEdited byDella MulladyDistributed byPathé ExchangeRelease date November 11, 1917 CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles) The Flirt is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Copies of the film survive in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art and the British Film Institute.[1] PlotHarold Lloyd plays an incorrigible skirt-chaser who follows a pretty girl from a park to her place of employment as a cashier in a restaurant. He orders a huge meal and then proceeds to get the waiter fired so he can take his place. In a short time Lloyd creates mayhem that annoys both the restaurant's customers and its kitchen staff. Lloyd eventually learns that the cashier is married to the proprietor of the restaurant. He then quickly leaves, sees another pretty girl, and follows her down the street. Cast Harold LloydSnub PollardBebe DanielsW.L. AdamsSammy BrooksLottie CaseBilly EvansBilly Fay (as William Fay)William GillespieSadie GordonCharles GriderMax HamburgerArthur HarrisonClyde E. HopkinsOscar LarsonMaynard Laswell (as M.A. Laswell)Gus LeonardChris LyntonBelle MitchellHazel PowellHazel RedmondZetta RobsonDorothy SaulterNina SpeightWilliam Strohbach (as William Strawback)Lillian Sylvester ReceptionLike many American films of the time, The Flirt was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut the scene of the waiter wiping a tray and his feet on the cook's posterior.[2] References1 "Progressive Silent Film List: The Flirt". silentera.com. Retrieved May 12, 2008. 2 "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (25). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 31. December 15, 1917.

Director

Billy Gilbert