Instrumentation

0.0.3 (II=fl, III=bcl+tsax) - 2221 - perc(2) - gtr(=banjo) - pno - 6 vln.vlc.db

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Programme Notes

Starring: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young
Director: Hal Roach
Production Company: Hal Roach Studios LISA, 1920
Film Print: 35mm, DigiBeta and DVD B&W print available from Harold Lloyd Trust Entertainment Inc. (Film Speed: 17-18 frames per second)

Lloyd stars as his stock character, the Boy, who has been packed off to stay out west with his uncle.  Uncle’s ranch is near Piute Pass, where it is considered bad form to shoot the same man twice in the same day.  The first person the Boy meets is the Girl. Local bully, ‘Tiger Lip’ Tompkins, wants the Girl, and to encourage her to reciprocate his feelings has locked her sick father in a room over the saloon.  Always eager to rescue damsels in distress, the Boy volunteers as her champion and, in typical Lloyd style, after many stunts and adventures, saves the day. 
Carl Davis’s score draws on Western-style themes – as well as the ‘William Tell’ overture and Wagner’s ‘Ride of the Valkyries’, all arranged for jazz band.  Its orchestration, based on the line-up of the Paul Whiteman Band, is the same as that for Safety Last to enable the two films to be run as a double bill.

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Philharmonie Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Carl Davis CBE

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Schrott Center for the Arts (Indianapolis, IN, USA)

Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra/Matthew Kraemer

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Schrott Center for the Arts (Indianapolis, IN, USA)

Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra/Matthew Kraemer

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Isaac Theatre Royal (Christchurch, New Zealand)

Marc Taddei/Christchurch Symphony

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Auckland Civic Theatre (Auckland, New Zealand)

Auckland Philharmonia/Marc Taddei