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A Sailor-Made Man

192147 minUnited States
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

An idle heir joins the navy to prove himself worthy of the woman he wants to marry. Enlistment proves harder to escape than he expected, and shipboard life begins with a formidable enemy who becomes a friend. A meeting ashore then turns his effort to impress a future father-in-law into a rescue adventure.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
46:05
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Fred C. Newmeyer · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsFred C. Newmeyer

Behind the scenes

The project grew beyond the usual two-reel comedy as Harold Lloyd and producer Hal Roach kept adding workable material. Its expanded length helped carry Lloyd from shorts toward feature-length storytelling.

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