An Eastern Westerner (1920)

That was an excellent one.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Blase eastern boy (Harold Lloyd) is shipped off to a ranch in the "wild west" by his father.This film has the distinction of being made shortly after the bomb incident, resulting in Lloyd hiding his hand and using the prosthetic glove. Personally, I feel like the accident did not really take away from his talent at all. And knowing that his masterpiece ("Safety Last") was made with only eight fingers only reinforces the idea that this handicap did nothing to stop him.I call this "decent" because I would rank the short among his lower work, though even his lower work is better than the average film out there.

Harold is a pampered dandy who is sent out west by his parents who feel he's not maturing as a young man. Slow-moving at first, the film picks up quickly when the action moves out west. Out west, he meets Mildred Davis (Harold Lloyd's future wife in real life) whose father is being held by the local toughs. Eventually Harold saves the day and gets the girl and in so doing, he unleashes a plethora of sight gags that are unique, inventive, and absolutely hilarious at times. Lloyd makes use of his smarts in character, as typified in the card playing scene, as well as his athletic prowess which rivaled both that of Chaplin and Keaton. The chase and evasion scenes with the gang on horseback has to be seen to be believed. Harold pulls out all the stops to avoid capture. It's a delightful entertainment, but it's certainly not one of Lloyd's very best. **1/2 of 4 stars.

A great example of the comedy of Harold Lloyd is to be found in this short subject, An Eastern Westerner. After getting in trouble once too often, Harold's dad sends him out west where men are men and Harold will profit by their example.Unlike most tenderfeet our west films, Harold never drops his eastern garb and stays true to himself. Of course immediately upon arriving in Piute Pass he makes an enemy of the town boss, Noah Young, a silent screen villain in the best Snidely Whiplash tradition. As is stated in the title, he owns half the town and bullies the rest with his hired men.He's even got sweet and innocent Mildred Davis who eventually became Mrs. Harold Lloyd in real life under his thumb. He's going to marry her and she is agreeing because Young is holding her father prisoner.All that changes with Harold on the scene. He maybe an eastern dude, but street smarts are street smarts on a western or eastern street. I think you can figure where this is going.An Eastern Westerner is a great example of Harold Lloyd's everyman character who rises to the occasion in all of his films.

I found all the sequences in this film to be very funny. It is one of the earlier examples of the chase sequences Harold was developing that would really come into an art form last in GIRL SHY & SPEEDY. It is fine fun, & has some examples of gags LLoyd did not use in later films that are pretty funny. Nice thing is the pacing, which is not quite as frantic as earlier BUMPING INTO Broadway even though the films are about the same length. In a way, this reminds me some of BILLY BLAZES, ESQ. in the western sequences, but the ones in this film show an improvement over the Tom Mix parody of 1919. Some of the sequences in this are laugh out loud funny. If you get a chance to, enjoy this one.