The City Slicker is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Prints of the film survive in the film archive of the Library of Congress.

Plot

Harold arrives in the backward town of Punkville by train to answer a classified ad offering employment for an eager young man who can modernize an antiquated hotel. Within a short time Harold has modernized the inn, including having rooms where the furniture. beds, telephones and bathtubs emerge from the walls. Bebe arrives at the hotel accompanied by her somewhat overbearing mother. Harold is attracted to her and helps her thwart and unwanted and much older suitor.

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Cast

Harold Lloyd as Harold

Snub Pollard as Snub (as Harry Pollard) Bebe Daniels as The Girl Helen Gilmore as Girl's Mother William Blaisdell as Bebe's rejected suitor Gus Alexander Sammy Brooks Lige Conley (as Lige Cromley) Billy Fay William Gillespie Wallace Howe Dee Lampton as Driver Gus Leonard as Old man playing checkers Charles Stevenson (as Charles E. Stevenson)

The City Slicker

See also

List of American films of 1918

Harold Lloyd filmography

References

External links

The City Slicker on YouTube

1918 films

Silent American comedy films

American silent short films

American black-and-white films

Films directed by Gilbert Pratt

1918 comedy films

1918 short films

American comedy short films

Surviving American silent films

1910s American films

1910s English-language films

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