College

Harold Lloyd’s bespectacled boy conquered the American football field, while Buster Keaton’s college lad tries his hand at the various disciplines of track and field. The star’s penultimate independent production may not rank, in terms of fame, among his greatest classics, but it delivers guaranteed laughs for all fans of silent comedy. The pole‑vaulting scene was performed by Lee Barnes, the 1924 Olympic champion.

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