Series: Harold Lloyd Director: Alfred J. Goulding Producer: Hal Roach Titles: H.M. Walker Photography: Walter Lundin Editor: Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels Company: Pathé Exchange/Rolin Released: 31 August 1919 Length: 1 reel Production No.: L-74 Filming dates: January 29 - February 6, 1919 Rating: -/10

Don't Shove

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It's the girl's (Bebe Daniels) birthday - the first she's had in a year, and there is a gathering of people at her home. The boy (Harold Lloyd) arrives with his fat rival (Dee Lampton) and after an altercation between them after the boy knocks off the rival's hat he goes inside to offer the birthday girl a present. But the boy is distracted, his fat rival and an elderly guest (Gus Leonard) insert a pipe and tobacco into the packaging. She unwraps it and is disgusted (you just can't please some people!) and she orders him out of the house but not before the boy slaps the old man. The girl's father walks out after him and they get tangled up with a couple of bystanders. A trying to read his newspaper protests and the father slaps him. The guy's smaller brother steps in and beats up the father. The boy asks the brother to show him how to box, and during a demonstration, the boy hits a policeman. The boy escapes into a roller skating rink where the guests from the birthday party show up. Eager to impress the birthday girl, the boy tries to go one better than an accomplished skater who has just been on, but he fails miserably. The manager comes back with a trophy and announced a "grand hurdle race - no fair shoving!" The race is off and the boy initially cheats his way around the course, which has one small raised bar which the skaters are expecting to navigate. The fat rival holds him up for a bit, but the boy shoves him aside and continues skating until the whole group end up in a free-for-all on the floor. The boy is awarded the trophy but the fat rival isn't happy and pulls out a gun (seriously?) and starts shooting the place up. The boy hides behind the birthday girl, who for some strange reason doesn't think to run for her life but rather, stand there in the firing range of the gunman. The film ends with no real conclusion.

Favourite bit Big tough Noah Young is minding his own business when he gets a slap in the face by the girl's father, Bud Jamison. There's just no call for it!

Trivia • Copyrighted August 4, 1919. • At least one source lists Eddie Boland in the cast. If true, I haven't seen him and his credit is absent from this list pending conformation. My opinion • The comedy scenes between Lloyd and Dee Lampton are among the best in the film. There is little to do for most of the cast.

	Harold Lloyd The boy
	Bebe Daniels The girl
	Bud Jamison The girl's father
	Sammy Brooks Rollerskater
	Dee Lampton Fat rival
	Marie Mosquini Party guest
	Bob O'Conor Party guest
	Noah Young Tough guy
	Gus Leonard Suitor
	James Parrott Party guest
	Fred C. Newmeyer Roller rink manager
	George Marks Willie
	Lige Conley [?]
	Wallace Howe [?]
	E.J. Ritter [?]
	Chase Thorne [?]
	Maynard Laswell [?]
	Catherine Surtees [?]
	Dorothy Terry [?]
	Estelle Harrison [?]
	Orland Bush [?]
	Leona Fay [?]
	Gladys Leslie [?]
	Ethel Erwin [?]

UNIDENTIFIED CAST

INTERTITLES (click image to enlarge)

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MISCELLANEOUS (click any image to enlarge)

Acknowledgements: The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia by Annette D'Agostino Lloyd Jesse Brisson (help with identifications) Jim Jarvis (information) Jorge Finkielman (poster) John Benson (additional material) This page was last updated on: 31 August 2024