The plot.
Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle.
But losing his job destroys that dream, and when he finds a particularly potent drink at his local bar, he goes on a very strange and funny rampage (with a lion in tow).
A rather odd film that doesn't really work. Not sure why it gets such good reviews. It was so poorly received when it came out that Howard Hughes pulled it, re-edited it and released it as Mad Wednesday in 1950! With an apparently shorter version that nearly cut out some of the players -- notably Rudy Valee.
He also put Lloyd's name UNDER the title, causing a lawsuit by Harold. What a mess.
I've read that the shorter version is more liked by viewers.
Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle.
But losing his job destroys that dream, and when he finds a particularly potent drink at his local bar, he goes on a very strange and funny rampage (with a lion in tow).
A rather odd film that doesn't really work. Not sure why it gets such good reviews. It was so poorly received when it came out that Howard Hughes pulled it, re-edited it and released it as Mad Wednesday in 1950! With an apparently shorter version that nearly cut out some of the players -- notably Rudy Valee.
He also put Lloyd's name UNDER the title, causing a lawsuit by Harold. What a mess.
I've read that the shorter version is more liked by viewers.