SnoopyStyle
In the small town of Little Bend, girl shy Harold Meadows (Harold Lloyd) is an apprentice tailor working for his uncle Jerry Meadows. He studies the female sex academically and writes a how-to book to meet them, "The Secret of Making Love". There are fantasy sequences portraying the different subsets of women. Mary Buckingham is a carefree rich heiress. Her car breaks down and she walks to the nearest train stop in Little Bend. There she runs into Harold who is going to LA trying to sell his book to a publisher. He immediately falls in love with her. Dogs are forbidden on the train and her dog runs away. Harold manages to retrieve the dog and returns it to the beauty. Neither knew that her boyfriend Ronald DeVore plans to propose marriage.The fantasy sequences are silly to the point of being insulting. There's a possibility that it's a deliberate spoof although the start doesn't set up the satire well. Right before that, the customer and her city cousins are too broad. Even their makeup seem harsh and theatrical. I wish those minor female characters have more realism. It would separate the real world from his imagined world. I actually love the publisher girls making fun of his book which is akin to those pretend-playboys who teaches using insults to get the supermodels. I also wish that Mary is more thankful about her dog immediately although their story is very cute. There is a pleasant flow to their chemistry development but they don't have the heated exchanges which is the hallmark of the standard rom-com formula. This is a sweet simple romance with Harold delivering the comedy and it works. Harold does his action comedy in the third act.
loganalaxanian
This film really surprised me since I'm not big fan of silent movies. Harold Lloyd did an awesome job with this character and played the role perfectly. His facial expressions and body language made it easier to understand how he was feeling since there was no talking. The only thing i didn't like about the movie was that it was a little slow in the beginning.
rodrig58
Almost 100 years since it was made (93 more exactly), and this film is still full of freshness. There are many comic situations to be seen in it. Also very poetic, it's Harold Lloyd! Full of spectacular and very dangerous scenes. The actors are simply charming, the film moves in great shape. Perhaps the author of the script for "The Graduate", with Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, was inspired by this film, the story is somehow similar.
rdjeffers
Wednesday May 25, 4:00pm, NCRD Performing Arts Center"Say, Barney Oldfield, what are you trying to do - run away from your rear tires?"A boy with a paralyzing fear of girls (and a panic stutter), writes a manual on the art of seduction. On his way to find a publisher, he meets a girl. Girl Shy is all about the chase. Harold resolves to save his girl from the clutches of the villain, by any means possible. He commandeers numerous cars, hitches a ride on a fire engine, steals a wagon, three horses, a streetcar and a motorcycle in a mad dash to stop a wedding that must not take place. Lovely Jobyna Ralston returns for her second of six features with Lloyd and - courtesy of Hal Roach - several Our Gang kids make surprise cameos. Viewed through a modern lens, Girl Shy is an unkind joke, with a young man's disability as the butt. In spite of this it possesses the sentimental, off-kilter hilarity Lloyd played so well, in a less serious time. NCRD Performing Arts Center presents Harold Lloyd's Girl Shy (1924), the second of three silent films featuring live musical accompaniment performed by pianist Liz Cole.
