Two-Gun Gussie (1918)

Best movie ever!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

"Two-Gun Gussie" is a 10-minute short film from 1918, which means it will have its 100th anniversary soon. The director is Alfred J. Goulding and writer is H.M. Walker and this duo is known to have worked on many black-and-white silent films that are still somewhat known today, almost a century later. And this is one of them. It shows us Harold Lloyd in the Wild West. He is in a bar and it is kinda fun to see him next to all these rough cowboys with their mustaches. Talk about wrong place wrong time really for Lloyd. He looks so harmless with his glasses and innocent face expression. You probably know him and his looks, so you know what I am talking about. but badly for him, and luckily for us, he really starts believing he was one of these rough Wild West guys too and hilarity ensues. I think this film was above-average for its time. Nothing too great or funny, but it's really the setting and the contrast that make this one work somehow. Supporting actors include Snub Pollard with the biggest mustache of them all and Lloyd's regular leading lady Bebe Daniels. Oh yeah, Lloyd was only in his mid-20s here, but extremely experienced already through all the films he made in the previous 3 years.

Two-Gun Gussie (1918) is a Harold Loyd western short comedy directed by Alfred J. Goulding.In this one Harold plays a mild-mannered young man who has left home and earns his living playing the piano in a saloon.The dangerous villain Dagger-Tooth Dan scares the local folks.Nobody's afraid of Harold.Except when the sheriff arrives with some letters he has received.Dan sees them and switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one.Now Harold, starting to believe he really is dangerous, starts acting like one.Harry Pollard plays Snub the bartender, who doesn't get too much behind from Harold.Bebe Daniels is The Girl, who should have been seen more on screen.William Blaisdell is Dagger-Tooth while Charles Stevenson plays Whooping-Cough Charlie, the Sheriff.This is not the funniest of Harold Lloyd's short comedies, but it sure has got speed.Harold was an energetic young fellow who could move very rapidly from one scene to another.The ending in nice, where Harold accidentally fires his gun when Bebe is behind him.And then there's the little kiss.For us Harold Loyd fans this is a must-see.

A successful pianist, Harold Lloyd goes west, where he is less appreciated, to tickle the ivories at the "Howling Poodle Tango Bar". There, dastardly gunslinger William Blasdell (as Dagger-Tooth Dan) makes Mr. Lloyd's life difficult; he steals Lloyd's earnings and makes time with Bebe Daniels. Then, to avoid the attentions of sheriff Charles Stevenson (as Whooping-Cough Charlie), he infers Lloyd is the tough "Two-Gun Gussie". The funnier film moments follow, with Lloyd pretending to be a fearless hombre. "Snub" Pollard is good, as the bartender. *** Two-Gun Gussie (5/19/18) Alf Goulding ~ Harold Lloyd, William Blasdell, 'Snub' Pollard

An excellent early short comedy for Harold Lloyd's 'Glass' character. He plays a meek conservatory graduate who wows the matrons and winds up playing in a western saloon, where Snub is the bartender and Bebe the Salvation Army lass. Harold is, of course, confused for a dangerous character and the gags flow fast and free for a while. Even Snub gets one or two funny ones.