The Kid Brother (1927)
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What is arguably Harold Lloyd’s greatest film, certainly among his many masterpieces, The Kid Brother is silent film at its very best. Not merely funny, The Kid Brother is often hilarious--containing the funniest gag ever put on film--but it is also a heartfelt tale of family acceptance, which balances perfectly with the inspired gags and its all tied together with a beautiful love story. The Kid Brother has it all--including, not the kitchen sink, but the world’s first automatic dishwasher; plus there’s a monkey!

Lloyd plays Harold Hickory, the youngest and weakest in the Hickory clan who tries to make up with wits what he lacks in might. Harold’s father (Walter James) is the small-town’s sheriff, and he along with his two elder sons (Leo Willis and Olin Francis) do all of the man’s work around the farm, leaving Harold to do the washing and cleaning. (There is no mention of a mother in the film). When a medicine show arrives in town, Harold inadvertently gives them permission to perform, something which his father would normally never allow, and when his father finds out, he makes Harold go into town and close the act down. The act gets closed, permanently, after a series of events lead to the stage burning down.

With nowhere to go, Harold brings the medicine show performer Mary Powers (Jobyna Ralston) to his home and offers her a bed. Meanwhile, the two other performers, “Flash” Farrell (Eddie Boland) and strongman Sandoni (Constantine Romanoff) learn that the sheriff is holding the cash that was collected from the townspeople for the building of a new dam. With the money missing, the townspeople, led by the evil Sam Hooper (Frank Lanning) and his son Hank (Ralph Yearsley), decide to take the law into their own hands and hold the sheriff prisoner. The sheriff deputizes his sons, excluding Harold, but they fail to find the thieves. Harold has better luck, finding them aboard a derelict ship. Through his cunning (and the help of a monkey dressed in a sailor suit), Harold apprehends the bad guy, brings him to town and hands over the missing money back to his father.

Jobyna Ralston (1899-1967)
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El hermanito ("The Kid Brother" 1927) - YouTube
Gonzalo Miguel Benitez Mateu
Posted Mar 18, 2013
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Película de comedia protagonizada por Harold Lloyd y Jobyna Ralston. Fue la última en que Ralston actuó con Lloyd, así como una de las películas en las que él mostró su lado más violento.

Comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston. It was the last in which Ms. Ralston acted with Lloyd and one of the films in which he showed his violent side.