YES SIR! WEDNESDAY WAS WILD! WEDNESDAY WAS RUGGED! THE WILDEST, WACKIEST, MOST HILARIOUS AND COMPLETELY BOLIXED-UP DAY YOU EVER HEARD OF!
After 22 years working as a bookkeeper, Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd) is fired; on the street, with his life savings in his pockets, he runs into a con artist (Jimmy Conlin)… This attempt to revive silent-movie star Lloyd’s career was such a flop that he decided to retire permanently. It’s not his fault though; watching Lloyd’s character from one of his biggest hits, The Freshman (1925), enter the modern world two decades later has its enjoyable moments. There’s a fun scene in a bar and a typical Lloyd stunt on the ledge of a skyscraper… but it’s all just too bland.
1947-U.S. 89 min. B/W. Produced by Howard Hughes, Preston Sturges. Written and directed by Preston Sturges. Cast: Harold Lloyd (Harold Diddlebock), Jimmy Conlin (Wormy), Raymond Walburn (E.J. Waggleberry), Rudy Vallee, Edgar Kennedy, Arline Judge… Lionel Stander, Margaret Hamilton.
Trivia: Re-edited and released as Mad Wednesday in 1950, running 76 min.