Monday morning on Turner Classic Movies, we get four Harold Lloyd talkies — Movie Crazy, The Cat's Paw, The Milky Way and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. They're followed by the two compilation films that Lloyd assembled in the sixties to remind the world how good he'd been — Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy and Harold Lloyd's Funny Side of Life.
Of the first four, I like Movie Crazy the best. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock is interesting as the product of two fading careers (Lloyd's and that of director Preston Sturges) but there's something forced about it…and Lloyd had long since outgrown his own part. It's worth seeing though, and markedly better than the re-edited, shorter version, Mad Wednesday, which runs from time to time.