- Girl Shy
Infobox Film
name = Girl Shy
caption =
director =Fred C. Newmeyer Sam Taylor
producer =Harold Lloyd Suzanne Lloyd Hayes (video release)Jeffrey Vance (video release)
writer =Thomas J. Gray (titles) Sam Taylor (story)Tim Whelan (story)Ted Wilde (story)
starring =Harold Lloyd Jobyna Ralston
music =Don Hulette (1974)Don Peake (1974 - additional music)Robert Israel (2002)
cinematography =Walter Lundin
editing =Allen McNeil
distributor =
released =April 20 ,1924 (USA )
runtime = 82/80 min
country = USA
language =Silent film
English intertitles
budget =
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amg_id = 1:93170
imdb_id = 0014945"Girl Shy" is a 1924 comedy
silent film starringHarold Lloyd . The movie was written byThomas Gray and Sam Taylor. It was directed byFred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor.ynopsis
The plot concerns a painfully shy young bachelor who falls in love with a rich girl who is already engaged to another man.
Production
This was Lloyd's first independent production after his split with
Hal Roach . It is what Lloyd called a "character story" (as opposed to a "gag film"), and is notable for containing fewer of the stunts which characterize Lloyd's other films throughout most of its length, and instead focusing more on the relationship between Lloyd and the girl he falls in love with. However, the lengthy finale of the film is one of the most exhilarating, non-stop action sequences of Lloyd's career. Some of the traveling shots with horses had a strong influence on MGM'sBen Hur the following year, and the famous final scene at the chapel had a stronger influence almost 60 years later in another MGM classic "The Graduate ".Cast
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Harold Lloyd as Harold Meadows, The Poor Boy
*Jobyna Ralston as Mary Buckingham, The Rich Girl
*Richard Daniels as Jerry Meadows, The Poor Man
*Carlton Griffin as Ronald De Vore, The Rich Manee also
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Harold Lloyd filmography
*List of United States comedy films External links
*imdb title|id=0014945|title=Girl Shy
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