Captain Kidd's Kids
Theatrical poster to Captain Kidd's Kids
Directed byHal Roach
Produced byHal Roach
StarringHarold Lloyd
Distributed byRolin Films
Release date
  • November 30, 1919 (1919-11-30)
Running time
20 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Captain Kidd's Kids is a 1919 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. It marked the last film Bebe Daniels worked on as Lloyd's leading lady. Prints of this film exist in the film archives of the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Filmoteca Española.[1]

Plot

The Boy, a wealthy young man, awakens on his wedding day with a huge hangover after a wild bachelor party. When he is sober enough to call his fiancee, The Girl tells him that her overbearing mother has learned of the previous night's party and has forbidden the marriage to take place. Instead, the mother is taking her on a cruise to the Canary Islands. The Boy and his valet quickly board a ship setting sail to that destination. The Boy falls asleep and dreams he and his valet have been thrown overboard by robbers. The two are rescued, but it is by a shipload of hostile female pirates. The valet turns on The Boy to ingratiate himself with the pirates. The boy is put to work as the cook's assistant but causes so much chaos in the ship's galley that he is sentenced to walk the plank. The Girl, who is one of the pirates, tries to rescue the boy with the aid of a group of male pirates. After a series of escapes and battles, The Boy is about to be hanged when he awakens from his dream. He encounters The Girl and musters the courage to forcefully confront her disapproving mother and drive her away. The Boy also turns on his valet for his treachery in the dream.

Cast

Harold Lloyd (left) and Fred C. Newmeyer in a screenshot from the film

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Progressive Silent Film List: Captain Kidd's Kids". Silent Era. Retrieved February 26, 2008.


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