Marin malgré lui

Original title: A Sailor-Made Man

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An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

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6.8/10

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Harold Lloyd

The Boy

Mildred Davis

The Girl

Noah Young

The Rowdy Element

Dick Sutherland

Maharajah of Khairpura-Bhandanna

William Gillespie

Naval Officer in Dream Sequence
(uncredited)

Fred Guiol

Enlistee
(uncredited)

Wally Howe

Doctor
(uncredited)

Gus Leonard

Lawyer
(uncredited)

Augustina López

Cigar-Smoking Woman at Bazaar
(uncredited)

Jobyna Ralston

Bit Part
(uncredited)

Sybil Seely

Harem Girl
(uncredited)

Charles Stevenson

Recruiting Officer
(uncredited)

Molly Thompson

Girls Mother
(uncredited)

Leo Willis

Recruiting Officer
(uncredited)

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Featured review

6/10

Lesser Harold Lloyd Is Still Entertaining

A pretty unremarkable Harold Lloyd comedy that finds our scrappy hero unwittingly signing on with the U.S. Navy in order to impress a girl. You can probably guess the physical and sight gags that go along with life on a Navy vessel, and then a large portion of the latter half of the film finds Harold in an unnamed Arabian country single-handedly fighting hordes of sword-wielding goons in order to rescue his fair love, who's been kidnapped by a wealthy sultan. There isn't a whole lot to remember about this film -- I had to look it up just to remind myself of what the plot was about -- but Harold Lloyd fans know that even his lesser films provide a good deal of entertainment.

Grade: B

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Trivia
Both Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach would haul the initial cuts of their films to theaters on the outskirts of Los Angeles for unannounced test screenings. They would gauge the reactions of these audiences to individual scenes and recut the films accordingly. This film was unusual in that it was conceived as a 2-reel short, but the 4-reel (just over 40 minutes) first cut tested so strongly with the audience, they were loathe to cut any of it. By audience default, it accidentally became his first feature-length comedy.

Goofs
When the Maharajah locks The Girl in a room, the door handle is on the left side. The camera then cuts to a shot of The Girl inside the room on the other side of the door, and that handle is also on the left side. The handle can't be on the left side of both sides of a door.