Peculiar Patients' Pranks

⭐ Featured Review

"This is the second oldest surviving Harold Lloyd title from Roach and the relative success of the series -- Pathe kept on renewing -- is a good indicator that the competition was punk or that Hal Roach was a great salesman -- probably both. This short occupies that hard-to-amuse middle ground, neither well enough executed, like Chaplin or Arbuckle, to engage us, nor absurd enough to let us disengage our sympathies, like Keystone slapstick or Watson's Musty Suffer. Instead Lonesome Luke is a marginal character who makes me wince when he slugs people or douses them with chloroform. Well, ..."