best movie i've ever seen.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is yet another Harold Lloyd comedy short I watched on the Kino DVD called "The Harold Lloyd Collection". In this one, Harold is a party boy who has worked the last nerve of his father so he sends his boy out west. It's there that we meet a big bully (Noah Young) who threatens a girl he employs (Mildred Davis, later to be Mrs. Lloyd) that he'll keep her father locked up unless she agrees to marry him. Guess who comes to the rescue. I'll stop there and just say how hilarious I found the whole thing from the "shimmying" Harold does at the beginning to the chase he gets from a group of white-sheeted men who resemble a certain white supremacist group. Besides those acrobatics, there's also a funny disguise on Lloyd's part as he tries to win a card game and some mishaps with a horse that seems to win some of Davis' heart as she laughs at him sympathetically. In short, I highly recommend An Eastern Westerner.

Eastern Westerner, An (1920) ** (out of 4) A party boy (Harold Lloyd) is sent out west by his parents but once there he encounters a group of masked bandits. I really didn't find this short very entertaining. Not many laughs to be found here.From Hand to Mouth (1920) ** (out of 4) A tramp (Harold Lloyd) meets a young homeless girl and her dog and the three try to get some food. I'm sure this was meant to be a sweet little film but it doesn't come off that way and the lack of laughs make it rather uninteresting.

One of the best, if not the best of Lloyd's two-reelers, this hilarious send-up builds on the parody of "Billy Blazes" and makes it ten times funnier thanks to the great build-up given to the central character in the introductory sequences. In fact, the taxi gag gave me the heartiest laugh of the movie and the other prologue dance-hall material was certainly the equal of the wonderful chase climax. (Although in point of fact my second biggest guffaw came from Lloyd's cleverly extended re-working of that old chestnut about missing the bus and chasing after it; which then leads into a nice bit of business with the horse; which then serves to introduce our hero to Mildred Davis, that cutest of cute leading ladies).As for production values, this two-reeler would be mighty hard to beat. Just look at the size of that cast! The sets and set-pieces stack up as wonders too and would not be thought wanting in the most toutedly expensive of "A" features. Walter Lundin's photography consistently comes across as picturesquely attractive, whilst the fluidity of Hal Roach's smoothly expansive direction certainly gives the lie to the often-repeated claim that as a director he was second-rate.

A Hal Roach HAROLD LLOYD Short Subject.Harold becomes AN EASTERN WESTERNER when his wealthy father banishes him from Broadway to Piute Patch.Harold displays his remarkable athletic ability in this funny little film made shortly after he lost half of his right hand in a freak accident. Although his special glove (made by Sam Goldwyn's family) is visible at times, you would never know he was handicapped in any way. Whether trying to sneak into a New York nightclub, or escape from the dangerous Masked Angels out West, Harold is never less than hilarious.Mildred Davis, Harold's future wife, plays the sweet Girl of the West; Noah Young is the nasty outlaw.Robert Israel has composed an excellent film score which perfectly complements Harold's antics on the screen.