Title: Why Worry?
Year: 1923
Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor
Writers: Sam Taylor, H.M. Walker, Tim Whelan, Ted Wilde
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Wallace Howe, Jim Mason
Music: Robert Israel (for video release)
Synopsis: a hypochondriac millionaire vacations in South America during a revolution
How I saw it: “The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection: Vol. 1″ (rented from Netflix), today
Subjective Rating: 6/10
Objective Rating: 5/10 (points off for story, characters, dialog, cinematography and music)

Entertaining and fast-paced. It’s usually amusing, but not exceptionally so. The acting is better than I’ve come to expect from silent films; sometimes they even get a laugh from a shot of someone’s reaction to something. It’s a nice movie, but you’re not missing anything if you never see it.

Title: Girl Shy
Year: 1924
Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor
Writers: Thomas J. Gray, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan, Ted Wilde
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin
Music: Robert Israel (for video release)
Synopsis: A shy boy with no experience with women writes the book called “The Secret of Making Love”
How I saw it: “The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection: Vol. 1″ (rented from Netflix), July 2008
Subjective Rating: 5/10
Objective Rating: 3/10 (gets points for concept, characters and special effects/design)

Slow and dull. Lloyd is likable, but that’s about all this has going for it.

Titles: “Ask Father” / “From Hand to Mouth” / “An Eastern Westerner“
Year: 1919-1920
Directors: Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach
Writers: H.M. Walker, Frank Terry
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Peggy Cartwright, Noah Young
Music: Robert Israel (for video release)
How I saw it: “The Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection: Vol. 1″ (rented from Netflix), July 2008
Subjective Rating: 6/10
Objective Rating: 5/10 (points off for characters, dialog, cinematography, acting and music)

“Ask Father” is very funny slapstick, a lot like a Loony Tunes cartoon. The other two are okay, but nothing special.