The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock is a 1947 comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring the silent film comic icon Harold Lloyd, and featuring an incredible supporting cast including Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn, Rudy Vallee, Arline Judge, Edgar Kennedy, Franklin Pangborn, J. Farrell MacDonald, Robert Dudley, Robert Greig, Lionel Stander and especially, Jackie the Lion. The films story is a continuation of The Freshman, one of Lloyds most successful movies.
In 1945, twentythree years after scoring the winning touchdown for his Tate College football team as told in The Freshman, mildmannered Harold Diddlebock Harold Lloyd, who has been stuck in a dull, deadend bookkeeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Waggleberry Raymond Walburn. He is given ankarat Swiss watch that is properly inscribed with gratitude and love and kisses foryears devoted services and a check for 2,946.12, the remains of his company investment plan. He bids farewell to Miss Otis Frances Ramsden, who works at an artists desk down the aisle, giving her the paid for engagement ring that he had, having planned to marry each of her six older sisters Hortense, Irma, Harriet, Margie, Claire, and Rosemary when they had worked there before her. He wanders out, aimlessly through the streets, his lifes savings in his pants pocket.While looking through the newspaper want ads for another job, Harold is approached by Wormy Jimmy Conlin, a local con artist, petty gambler, and racetrack lout, who asks Harold for some money so he can place a bet. Seeing the large amount of cash that Harold has, and hoping to get him drunk enough to acquire some of the cash, Wormy takes the depressed and unemployed Harold downstairs to the local bar for a drink. When Harold tells the bartender, Jake Edgar Kennedy, that he has never had a drink in his life, the barkeep creates a potent cocktail he calls The Diddlebock, one sip of which is enough to release Harold from all his inhibitions, setting him off on a dayandahalf binge of spending, gambling, and carousing. ........
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