For Heaven's Sake (1926 film)
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| Directed by | Sam Taylor |
| Produced by | Harold Lloyd |
| Starring | Harold Lloyd Jobyna Ralston Noah Young Jim Mason (as James Mason) Paul Weigel |
| Cinematography | Walter Lundin |
| Editing by | Allen McNeil |
| Release date(s) | April 4, 1926 (US premiere) |
| Running time | 58 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
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For Heaven's Sake is a 1926 comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It was made just before one of Lloyd's most critically-praised films today, The Kid Brother. Commercially, it was Lloyd's most successful film and the 12th highest-grossing film of the silent era, pulling in $2,600,000.
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[edit] Plot
J. Harold Manners (Lloyd) is a millionaire playboy who accidentally finds himself in the poor part of town one day.
There, he unknowingly gives a man enough money to start a religious mission. Once he hears that a mission was started in his name, he goes there to tell them to take his name off since (as he believes) he didn't have anything to do with it. Once there, however, he falls for the Downtown Girl, Hope (Ralston) who works in Brother Paul's (Weigel) rebuilt mission. In order to build up attendance, and win Hope's attention, Harold runs through town causing trouble, and winds up with a crowd chasing him right into the mission. He eventually wins the girl and they marry, but not without some interference from his high-brow friends.
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- Lloyd alternated between making "gag pictures" and "character pictures". This was a "gag picture", made between two "character pictures" which are considered among many to be two of Harold Lloyd's best films: The Freshman (1925) and The Kid Brother (1927).
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| Silent | A Sailor-Made Man (1921) • Grandma's Boy (1922) • Doctor Jack (1922) • Safety Last! (1923) • Why Worry? (1923) • Girl Shy (1924) • Hot Water (1924) • The Freshman (1925) • For Heaven's Sake (1926) • The Kid Brother (1927) • Speedy (1928) • Welcome Danger (1929, released 2005) |
| Sound | Welcome Danger (1929) • Feet First (1930) • Movie Crazy (1932) • The Cat's-Paw (1934) • The Milky Way (1936) • Professor Beware (1938) • The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) |
