As Harold Lloyd’s nail-biting climb up a skyscraper turns 100, we doff our hats to Safety Last! and nine other landmark films celebrating their centenary this year.
At the Music Box Theatre: A crackpot 1924 silent film, recently restored, imagines an epidemic of "masculitis" wiping out all males over 14. Except one. Ladies, he's all yours.
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Genres: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Description: After her husband John McKay is killed in an ongoing feud with the Canfield family, a woman takes her baby boy Willie to her sister s house in New York hoping he will never know of the feud with the Canfields. Twenty years later Willie is a grown man and he receives a letter saying he has inherited his father s estate and must travel to his family home to take possession. On the train there he meets a beautiful young woman and falls in love only to learn that she s a Canfield. He accepts her invitation to dinner and quickly realizes that the Canfield men won t kill him while he s in their home. His plan to stay there as a permanent guest is short-lived and the Canfields are soon after him.