Going! Going! Gone! with Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard, Bud Jamison

[ferociousgumby]

The music sounds like it has mold growing on it.

[ferociousgumby]

Harold is so YOUNG in this - a skinny little, cute little twerp! I sure would have gone for him. Bebe was a lucky woman. I read in a Lloyd bio that they were engaged, but she broke it off (wanted a career) and she had the engagement ring made into diamond cufflinks which Harold wore for the rest of his life. Romantic?!

[ferociousgumby]

Oops, I forgot I already posted this, sorry. I feel the same way however.

[ferociousgumby]

Where do they get the music for these things? It's putrid. Give me Robert Israel any day.

[ferociousgumby]

Who dug up the wretched music? Bad music has been the bane of silent comedy for generations. Bring on Robert Israel or Carl Davis, who wrote brilliant scores for the Comedy Collection DVD set. I turn the sound off when I watch these.

[ROGERDILIA]

Me encanta Harold Lloyd. Es inigualable.

[Turpinutz]

Thanks for posting this one.

Years ago I came across an original movie poster for the film Going! Going! Gone! and it was a beauty. It showed Harold and Snub on a bicycle built for two and I agree this film probably is G!G!G! Wish I had the $100 back in 1980 to have bought the poster!

[chrisivision07]

Just got Annette Lloyd's latest biography on Harold Lloyd and her comments about Pinched have nothing to do with this film. Anyone have any other ideas?

[jazzinrascal]

The synopsis for 'Going Going Gone' in Annette's book is rather vague (!) but I think that this is the film.

It is certainly not 'Pinched' which I have on video, taped from the 1980s television series 'Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy'.

[chrisivision07]

Thanks a lot for this info, I have reverted the title back to G!G!G! albeit with some lingering doubt.

[jazzinrascal]

Just found this short review from 'Motion Picture World' quoted in Adam Reilly's book 'Harold Lloyd The King of Daredevil Comedy':

"They find some girls wading in a creek and save one from an unfriendly crab. Several of the incidents pictured are amusing, but there is no particular plot"

Hope this is useful. By the way, thanks for posting the film - it's great!

[chrisivision07]

You're welcome, and thanks for quoting that movie review. Haha, "no particular plot" sums the film up perfectly, but it is charming nevertheless. Bebe Daniels really shines in this film.

[justafool1]

@jazzinrascal

The IMDb synopsis got Going, Going Gone or Pinched does not match this film. Suggestion, translating from the French Une Excursion Mouvementee (A Journey or walk Enlivened); what about Step Lively 1917?

[chrisivision07]

Thanks a lot for your comments, csx2117. When I acquired this on video years ago, the tape was titled "Going Going Gone," and an internet search for the French title also leads to "G!G!G!"

Your further explanation of the plot definitely makes sense, and I also have another observation: the gags and overall structure of this film is much too crude for 1919. I figured it had to be an early glasses-character Lloyd film on this alone, and took a wild guess at "Pinched."

[csx2117]

Continuing....

This is another example of a foreign language translation gone awry. The French title translates roughly to "A Moving Excursion", which is a far cry from the American "Pinched".

[csx2117]

You're half right. I agree it must be "Pinched", but not because of the early scene. "Pinched" is also a slang term for being arrested.

Harold and Snub are conned out of their bicycle by the real bank thieves when their stolen car breaks down.

The posse mistakes them for the real bank robbers and arrests them while the real thieves return to town and start taking liberties with Bebe who screams for help. The boys come to the rescue and in the ensuing fight, the real crooks get pinched.