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High and Dizzy

192026 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

A doctor treating a sleepwalking young woman becomes entangled in drunken adventures with a friend. Their troubles on the ground give way to a much greater danger when the woman ventures onto a high building ledge.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
26:34
Subtitles
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

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Wikimedia Commons · Hal Roach / Pathé Exchange · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsHal Roach

Historical context

The ledge sequence anticipates Harold Lloyd's better-known high-rise comedy in Safety Last!. The homemade-liquor subplot also places the action in the world of American Prohibition.

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