So much average

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Excellent, a Must See

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I have a production still in which Harold Lloyd and producer/director Hal Roach are obviously having an enjoyable time embellishing a shooting script with gag after gag. Employing a cast as long as the memo Hal is holding, "An Eastern Westerner" incorporated more production values than the average feature. What's more, Hal Roach's smoothly expansive direction certainly gives the lie to the often-repeated claim that as a director, he was second-rate. If another proof of the absurdity of this claim was needed, you have only to look at another of Lloyd's 1920 two-reelers, namely this "Get Out and Get Under". This short is a superbly orchestrated and timed little comedy in which no expense seems to have been spared. The camera really moves when appropriate and all the action is brilliantly staged. Indeed, one of Lloyd's favorite props, a streetcar, figures in the action and the cast includes wonderful Sunshine Sammy Morrison who shares some hilarious "business" with Lloyd.

Young man's girlfriend calls him.He should get to the amateur theatrical production soon.He hops on his Ford Model T and gets on the road.He soon notices the car doesn't like him too much.He has to deal with all kinds of problems, including a dog,a kid and a banana peel.Get Out and Get Under is a Hal Roach comedy from 1920.It's a hilarious comedy with Harold Lloyd, also known as the third genius.His girl is played by Mildred Davis, who became his wife.Fred McPherson plays The Rival.The movie's runtime is 25 minutes and those minutes hold many funny gags inside.Harold Lloyd had the ability to make us laugh.And in this one he has a sidekick- his Ford Model T.What a wonderful pair!

Being after his accident, Harold wears gloves for pretty much this entire film. This is still under the Hal Roach studios in 1920 & it is less refined slapstick style & not as complex as Harold would develop in later films. Think Harold is self-conscious about his hands in this, not only because of the gloves, but his stunts in this one are no where near the ones he would do later. Mildred Pierce is the girl in this love story but her major work is in Harold (the boy) dream sequence in the film beginning where he dream Mildred went & married someone else & he found out while trying to pose for a photo portrait & arrives too late to do anything about it. This is a theme Lloyd would develop more thoroughly in later films. Some of the chase sequence with the police pursuit has some inventive sequencing & the pace is fast & furious. While this is a couple of notches below his better films, this one is pleasant. The version I saw from the TCM set is only just over 25 minutes, though it doesn't seem to be missing anything. Watch for the sequence where Harold disappears inside his car. It looks impossible & clever, & is the most intriguing stunt by Harold in the film.

This is a good Harold Lloyd comedy that gets plenty of mileage out of the material, and it has quite a few amusing moments. It is one of many silent comedies that take one situation and then stretch it out as far as possible.The top silent comedians such as Lloyd could often find quite a variety of possibilities in a simple premise.In this case, most of the story has Harold in a desperate rush to get where he is going. The number of obstacles he encounters is pretty creative, from the expected, such as an uncooperative automobile, to unexpected obstacles such as a friendly little boy and a cute dog. There is some decent slapstick, and there are also some good sight gags, a couple of which might be the movie's best moments. It works pretty well overall.