Welcome Danger
Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.
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"If nothing else, "Welcome Danger" would be interesting for film buffs for the way silent and sound cinema mix up: you can practically see the transition happening before your very eyes. But besides that, there are several cleverly constructed gags in this long, at times slow yet quite creative comedy, which also boasts occasionally innovative use of sound, particulary in one sequence where the screen stays black for minutes on end and the action is strictly aural. Harold Lloyd's character can be a jerk and a bully at times, but he is also impressively athletic; in fact, he remin..."
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Began shooting as a silent in August, 1928 at Metropolitan Studios, it would become an agonizingly long and complicated production. It was finally released on October 12, 1929 as a talkie after largely being re-shot with another director - Clyde Bruckman as a talkie (marking the first time Lloyd worked from a script) and painstakingly edited down from an original 16-reels (some 2 hours and forty-five minutes) to 12-reels. The silent version cost $521,000 and another $281,000 was spent on the sound negative. While the novelty of hearing Lloyd speak made it his largest grossing hit since The Freshman (1925), those steep production costs resulted in a huge drop in net profits from his earlier features.
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Harold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown.