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Dir. Preston Sturges. 1946. 89mins. Silent comedian Harold Lloyd makes a comeback as nerdy bookkeeper who goes on a rampage after losing his job. Sturges and Lloyd had very different ideas about the movie (Sturges was primarily a dialogue man, Lloyd was a great physical comedian). The resulting film was so strange that backer Howard Hughes took it away from both guys and recut it in a mangled version called Mad Wednesday. But we'll not speak of that; this is the version Sturges and Lloyd agreed upon before Hughes got his hands on it.