Why Worry?

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Why Worry?

1923,

1h 3m,

Comedy/

Adventure/

Romance

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Harold Van Pelham (Harold Lloyd) is filthy rich -- but what good does it do him when he's always sick? To get over his multitude of real or imaginary ailments, he goes for a much-needed vacation to sunny South America. Everything's going fine until the revolution breaks out. Instead of lying on the beach, Harold has landed in jail. Lucky for him, the big guy sharing his cell, Colosso (John Aasen), is friendly. After a daring jailbreak, the two come to the rescue of Harold's kidnapped nurse.

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Mar 23, 2024

2.5/4

...the movie’s mild success is due predominantly to Lloyd’s broad, go-for-broke turn as the inattentive central character...

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Robert E. Sherwood

LIFE

Oct 6, 2021

I can say of Why Worry? just what I said of the last four Lloyd products -- that it is hilariously funny, that it moves at a breakneck pace and that it is enlivened throughout by Lloyd's indomitably buoyant humor.

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

Feb 6, 2016

3.5/4

...a silly satire of interventionist, imperialist meddling.

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Sarah Boslaugh

Playback:stl

Dec 27, 2015

6/10

...slight but also enjoyable...

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Poe P

May 1, 2017

One of my favourite Harold Lloyd's. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME I LOVE YOU!!??" His usual gag-a-minute plus plus, as you'd expect from any of the true cinema comedian actors. Easily puts to shame the modern 'greats' like Ferrell, Stiller, Murray, Carrey and so on. Today's audiences don't know what they're missing with hard-to-come-by gags for exorbitant ticket prices. Sad times. Go back to the Silent Greats and you'll see how shortchanged you are today.

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Ron G

Jun 19, 2016

Lloyd's naive, optimistic, can-do character blended with that of a chronic hypochondriac shouldn't work on paper and - yet it does. The fun and laughs never stop. One of Harold Lloyd's s more "cartoonish" movies it is nonetheless a very entertaining, inventive, madcap ride.

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Sam Taylor

Director

Fred Newmeyer

Director

Harold Lloyd

Harold Van Pelham

Jobyna Ralston

The Nurse

John Aasen

Colosso

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Synopsis

Harold Van Pelham (Harold Lloyd) is filthy rich -- but what good does it do him when he's always sick? To get over his multitude of real or imaginary ailments, he goes for a much-needed vacation to sunny South America. Everything's going fine until the revolution breaks out. Instead of lying on the beach, Harold has landed in jail. Lucky for him, the big guy sharing his cell, Colosso (John Aasen), is friendly. After a daring jailbreak, the two come to the rescue of Harold's kidnapped nurse.

Director: Sam Taylor, Fred Newmeyer
Producer: Hal Roach
Screenwriter: Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan, Ted Wilde
Distributor: Pathé Exchange Inc.
Production Co: Hal Roach Studios Inc.
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 9, 1923, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 23, 2017
Runtime: 1h 3m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.37:1)

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