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- Release Date: 1947
- Runtime: 89 min
- Genre: Comedy
- Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn, Rudy Vallee ... see all
- Director: Preston Sturges
- Plot: Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But... Read more
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| Aug 18, 2001DVD Talk
The picture is excellent....mindless comedies have value because people need a good laugh -.... ... Full Review
Time Out
Lloyd's last film - by no means the total disaster of reputation - kicks off with the final reel of The Freshman , then goes on to show Harold the go-getter of 1925, fired after 22 years stuck in the same dead-end job, breaking out in a wild Mad Wednesday spree which results in him drunkenly sowing the seeds of future success. ... Full Review
MTV.com
Though these two comedy geniuses eventually had a stylistic falling out, resulting in an uneven, spasmodically dreary film, on the whole Harold Diddlebock is well worth having.
Taking his place at his new desk and festooning his walls with inspirational homilies, Harold starts to work, supremely confident that he's poised on the brink of bigger things.
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From the Chicago Reader Preston Sturges, the great satirist of the 40s, coaxed Harold Lloyd out of retirement for this 1947 comedy, which follows the hero of Lloyd's classic The Freshman through the complications of later life. ... Full Article