501 - For Heaven's Sake, United State, 1926. Dir. Sam Taylor.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

501 - For Heaven's Sake, United State, 1926.  Dir. Sam Taylor.

"Every city has two districts--Uptown, where people are cursed with money, and Downtown, where they are cursed without it."

Mr. J. Harold Manners is The Uptown Boy.  A millionaire.  He purchases a great white car to match his great white pants.

A 1923 Duesenberg Model A.

He crashes his car.  Or rather his driver crashes it.  His driver swerves to avoid a box--which he thinks is a cat, because it has a cat painted on it--and runs head-on into a truck.

And the truck's boxes fall on top of the car.

No problem.

Mr. Manners excuses his driver for the day.

And goes and buys another car.

A 1927 Packard Eight Phaeton.

He writes a check for $9,000.

That is worth $125,474.08 today.

How many cars are worth that?

Maybe these: Acura NSX, Aston Martin Vanquish, Audi R8, Bentley Flying Spur, BMW i8, Ferrari 488 GTB, Lamborghini Aventador, McLaren 650S, Mercedes-AMG GT, Porsche 911 Turbo, Rolls Royce Phantom.

Mr. Manners crashes that car as well.

But his third check turns out not to be a check for a new car but a check for a man who has a Free Coffee stand.

Which Mr. Manners has burnt to the ground.

Thinking he was putting out a fire, he doused a fire with fuel.

To reimburse, he gives the coffee stand owner a one-thousand dollar check.

The man in turn begins a new Mission.  A mission named after J. Harold Manners.

And from this the plot things begin to unfold.

In this six-reel film from Harold Lloyd.