A Sailor-Made Man

A Sailor-Made Man: idle playboy Harold Lloyd has to prove himself to Mildred Davis’ father to marry her. So he joins the Navy! Later, he has to rescue her from kidnapping while on shore leave.

A Sailor-Made Man (1921) starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis

Product Description

A Sailor-Made Man: When The Girl’s father insists that, before he will agree to The Boy’s marrying his daughter, he must first prove that he can do something more worthwhile than act the playboy. He joins the navy..

Cast of characters

• Harold Lloyd (Safety Last!) … The Boy
• Mildred Davis (Dr. Jack) … The Girl
• Noah Young (Bumping into Broadway) … The Rowdy Element
• Dick Sutherland (The Hoose-Gow) … Maharajah of Khairpura-Bhandanna

Additional cast

• William Gillespie (Double Whoopee) … Naval Officer in Dream Sequence (uncredited)
• Fred Guiol … Enlistee (uncredited)
• Wally Howe (Movie Crazy) … Doctor (uncredited)
• Gus Leonard (Bliss … Lawyer (uncredited)
• Augustina López … Cigar-Smoking Woman at Bazaar (uncredited)
• Jobyna Ralston (The Kid Brother) … Bit Part (uncredited)
• Sybil Seely (One Week) … Harem Girl (uncredited)
• Charles Stevenson (Dr. Jack) … Recruiting Officer (uncredited)
• Molly Thompson … Girls Mother (uncredited)
• Leo Willis (Below Zero) … Recruiting Officer (uncredited)

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 re-cut the films accordingly. This film, conceived as a 2-reel short, but the 4-reel (just over 40 minutes) first cut tested so strongly with the test audience, they were loathe to cut any of it. By audience default, it accidentally became his first feature-length comedy.
• Released on 25 December 1921, with a budget of only about $77,000, it grossed over $485,000. The huge success of this film as a feature led Harold Lloyd to abandon making 2-reel shorts. His next film, Grandma’s Boy (1922) was designed from the start as a 5-reel feature and would be released nine months after this film.
• Harold Lloyd married his co-star Mildred Davis on 10 February 1923. They remained married until her death on 18 August 1969. They had three children.