THE FRESHMAN (1925) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Sam Taylor, Fred Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict,
James Anderson, Hazel Keener, Pat Harmon
Harold Lloyd goes off to college, hoping to be the most popular man on campus. Instead, he becomes the campus joke and the waterboy on the football team. But the girl who works at the boarding house believes in him, and the big game's coming up. Harold might be down, but he won't be down for long. One of Lloyd's most popular comedies, with the gridiron climax shot in the Rose Bowl and the crowd scenes at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, during an actual football game. In his last film, "The Sin of Harold Diddlebock" (1947), Lloyd played the same character in middle age.
