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Speedy [videorecording (DVD)].

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The Criterion Collection, 2015.

New York (N.Y.) -- Drama.

Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 788.

[videorecording (DVD)].

Two-dvd special ed.

2 videodiscs (86 min.) : silent, Dolby digital (music), b&w ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1928.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration from elements preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive ; musical score from composer Carl Davis from 1992, synchronized and restored under his supervision and presented in uncompressed stereo ; new audio commentary featuring Bruce Goldstein, director of repertory programming at New York's Film Forum, and Turner Classic Movies director of program production Scott McGee ; In the footsteps of ""Speedy,"" a new short documentary by Goldstein about the film's New York shoot ; selection of rare archival footage of baseball legend Babe Ruth, who has a cameo in the film, presented by David Filipi, director of film and video at the Wexner Center for the Arts ; new video essay featuring stills of deleted scenes from the film and narrated by Goldstein ; selection of actor Harold Lloyd's home movies, naratted by his granddaughter, Suzanne Lloyd ; "Bumping into Broadway", a 1919 Lloyd two-reeler, newly restored and with a 2004 score by Robert Israel ; PLUS: An essay by critic Phillip Lopate.

Silent film with musical accompaniment and intertitles in English.

Story and scenario by John Grey, Lex Neal, Howard Rogers, Jay How ; directed by Ted Wilde.

Harold Lloyd with Ann Christy and Bert Woodruff, Byron Douglas, Brooks Benedict and Babe Ruth as himself.

"Speedy was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd -- and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his 'Glasses Character,' this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn street-drawn streetcar, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather. From its joyous visit to Coney Island to its incredible Babe Ruth cameo to its hair-raising climactic stunts on the city's streets, Speedy is an out-of-control love letter to New York that will have you grinning from ear to ear."--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Wilde, Ted, 1889-1929.

Lloyd, Harold, 1893-1971.

Christy, Ann, 1905-1987.

Woodruff, Bert, 1856-1934.

Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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