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Long Pants

192760 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

Harry's first pair of long trousers seems to promise adult freedom, but his family expects him to marry his childhood sweetheart. He instead becomes infatuated with a woman involved in crime. His attempts to escape the wedding and rescue his imagined lover reveal a dangerous gap between fantasy and experience.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
57:54
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Frank Capra · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsFrank Capra

Historical context

Frank Capra directs Harry Langdon in a comedy that takes the prospect of growing up into unusually dark territory. The childish hero's romantic obsession makes his apparent innocence increasingly uncomfortable.

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