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Speedy

192886 minUnited States
ComedyAdventure
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
86:22
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Creator:Ted Wilde · Public domain

Synopsis

Harold Swift cannot hold a job for long, especially when baseball distracts him. Protecting his sweetheart's grandfather's horse-drawn streetcar gives him a more lasting purpose. A transport magnate wants the small line eliminated, and Harold must find a way to keep it operating through the traffic, schemes and sudden obstacles of New York.

Cast

DirectorsTed WildeClyde Bruckman

Behind the scenes

Location work in New York brings Coney Island and the city's streets into Lloyd's comedy. Babe Ruth appears as himself, connecting Harold's baseball enthusiasm with an actual sporting celebrity.

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Wikipedia — film referenceWikidata — film identity and creditsThe Criterion Collection — Speedy

Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 12, 2026.

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