The Freshman

The Freshman (1925)

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The Freshman (1925)
American Silent Comedy Film.

A nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.

In hopes of making some friends, Harold Lamb (Harold Lloyd) attends college at Tate University. But when the students notice his eccentric personality, he becomes the joke of the school. His fellow students convince Harold that he is popular but laugh at him behind his back, telling him that he is a player on the football team when he is actually the waterboy. Only his friend Peggy (Jobyna Ralston) knows that, to be happy, Harold must accept himself for who he really is.

The Freshman remains one of Harold Lloyd’s most successful and enduring films.

The football scenes were shot at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, CA, between the first and second quarters of the East-West game of 1924-25. The stadium had just completed construction the year before.

In 1990, The Freshman was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”, going in the second year of voting and being one of the first 50 films to receive such an honor

Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Sam Taylor
Produced by Harold Lloyd
Written by John Grey
Sam Taylor
Tim Whelan
Ted Wilde
Starring Harold Lloyd
Jobyna Ralston
Music by Harold Berg
Cinematography Walter Lundin
Edited by Allen McNeil
Distributed by Pathé Exchange
Release date
  • September 20, 1925
Running time
76 minutes
Country United States
Languages Silent film
English intertitles
Budget $301,681
Box office $2.6 million

 

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