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Ask Father

191913 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

A young man wants to ask his sweetheart's father for permission to marry. Guards, trapdoors and office machinery repeatedly throw him out, forcing him to try increasingly unlikely disguises to reach the businessman.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
12:42
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Hal Roach · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsHal Roach

Behind the scenes

The office becomes a mechanical obstacle course for Harold Lloyd. Its barriers translate a social problem into a sequence of climbing, costume changes and physical expulsions.

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