Never Weaken (1921)

Highly Recommended

USA

Short Film

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer

Writers: H.M. Walker, Hal Roach, Sam Taylor

Cinematographer: Walter Lundin

Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Mark Jones, Charles Stevenson, William Gillespie

When the job of his sweetheart, who works as a receptionist for an osteopath, is threatened due to a lack of patients, Harold sets out, rather unethically, in search of some, but when he returns, a misunderstanding involving the verb “to marry” leaves him determined upon ending his own life, in this brilliantly inventive, blackly comic, and absolutely hilarious action-packed short film. Iain.Stott