FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE Starring Harold Lloyd February 7th in St. Louis with Live Music

“Bull” Brindle was so tough he wouldn’t eat lady fingers unless they had brass knuckles!”

The 1926 silent film FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE starring Harold Lloyd screens in St. Louis Sunday, February 7th at 4pm at Second Presbyterian Church (4501 Westminster Place St. Louis MO 63108). It will be accompanied by Organist Andrew Peters.

While not as much of a household name as Chaplin or Keaton, Harold Lloyd was one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedies, both silent and “talkies”, between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his bespectacled “Glasses” character, a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era United States. Llyod’s films frequently contained extended chase scenes and daredevil physical feats. The image of Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in SAFETY LAST (1923) is now part of cinema folklore. Lloyd performed these dangerous stunts himself, despite having injured himself in August 1919 while doing publicity pictures for the Roach studio. An accident with a bomb mistaken as a prop resulted in the loss of the thumb and index finger of his right hand (the injury was disguised on future films with the use of a special prosthetic glove).

In FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE (1926), Lloyd played J. Harold Manners, an irresponsible young millionaire who changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister. FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE features one of Lloyd’s most hair-raising stunts as a double-decker bus (with atop it the star and his ‘flock’) races driverless along busy city streets on its way to Harold’s wedding. Other hilarious highlights include: the destruction of two cars owned by our reckless hero – the first happens because of a crate of cat food in the middle of the street, which the black chauffeur mistakes for the real thing and tries to avoid but ends up slamming straight into another car, and an irresistible routine involving the indigestible ‘cakes’ which Lloyd is made to eat by his beloved at the mission.

Don’t miss the screening of FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE at 4pm February 7th at Second Presbyterian Church (4501 Westminster Place St. Louis MO 63108). It will be accompanied by Organist Andrew Peters. Admission is FREE