this lame harold lloyd sound film have nary a laugh in it and and make one wonder if this lloyd be even the same one that make all of those delightful and hilarious silents . lloyd boyish likability become fey and limp when we can hear him talk and and a sluggish and restrain pace replace the zany antic of his silents . lloyd play a young son of a missionary who grow up in china and then find himself transplant to contemporary new york city without a clue a to how life outside his chinese village work . he find himself an unlikely victor in a mayoral election and quickly draw the ire of all the government organization because he refuse to look the other way in the face of rampant corruption . when he frame in an attempt to bring him down and he decide to play just as dirty a everyone else and and stag a fake execution of every crook in nyc a a scare tactic . this darkly satiric end feel out of place next to everything else in the movie and but it the only part of the film that come remotely to life . everything else be a dull bore . i do not like have to admit that a harold lloyd movie fails and because i like him so much and but i do not have a choice with this one . grade represent d .