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The Freshman
Directed by
Sam Taylor
,
Fred C. Newmeyer
Not Rated
1925
77m
Comedy
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7.5
95%
78%
7.0
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A nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.
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Cast of The Freshman
Harold Lloyd
Harold Lamb
Jobyna Ralston
Peggy
Brooks Benedict
The College Cad
Hazel Keener
The College Belle
Joseph Harrington
The College Tailor
Pat Harmon
The Football Coach
Leon Beaumon
Student (uncredited)
Ethel Broadhurst
Woman (uncredited)
Roy Brooks
Tall Student (uncredited)
Rosalind Byrne
Girl Caught in Suspenders at Dance (uncredited)
Charles Farrell
Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited)
Wally Howe
Gardener (uncredited)
Gus Leonard
Waiter Who Takes Harold's Pants (uncredited)
King Lockwood
Student (uncredited)
George Marion
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Oscar Smith
Dean's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Charles Stevenson
Assistant Coach (uncredited)
Grady Sutton
Student Who Goes to Dean (uncredited)
May Wallace
Harold's Mother (uncredited)
James H. Anderson
Chet Trask
The Freshman Ratings & Reviews
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Sean Axmaker
His mix of spunky resilience and wide-eyed obliviousness makes him both admirable and pathetic, at least until the energetic naïf proves himself in the big football game.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
The predicaments aren't too severe, depicted in a cartoonish manner, allowing for worthwhile skits with a dizzy tailor, a small baby, and an important dance - each providing mirth but failing to land major laughs.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
A comic masterpiece.
LIFE
Robert E. Sherwood
There remains, however, the football game at the conclusion of The Freshman -- and this in itself is enough to justify all the preliminary effort. In this wild orgy of unmitigated nonsense Harold Lloyd reaches the top of his comic form.
Boulder Weekly
Michael J. Casey
Few filmmakers capture the era in which they made their movies like Lloyd.
Filmsite
Tim Dirks
The Freshman (1925) is actor/director Harold Lloyd's silent film satire of college life (aka College Days), one of his best-remembered and well-crafted films and also his most successful effort. It was one of the top-grossing films of the year...
Three Movie Buffs
Scott Nash
The plot is a cliche now, but at the time must have felt fresh. And even though modern viewers have seen its like perhaps dozens of times, it somehow does little to diminish The Freshman's charm.
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Sarah Boslaugh
...another solid comedy film, featuring Lloyd as a nave character who just wants to be popular at "Tate University," described in a title card as "a large football stadium with a college attached."
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
there is not a college-themed cinematic yukfest that doesn't owe something to Lloyd's standard-bearer--the original revenge of the nerd
The Dissolve
Keith Phipps
Flawlessly executed and edited for maximum impact, the gags have timepiece precision, but Lloyd always sells his mishaps as things that just kind of happen to his character [The Freshman] works because it keeps viewers rooting for its hero.
The New Republic
Edmund Wilson
Lloyd has never been a very good actor; he has been a dummy for comic devices. And we are not much moved by the scene in The Freshman in which he learns at last that he has been the butt of his fellow students, instead of, as he has believed, their hero.
Film and Felt
Gabe Leibowitz
My first foray into the comedic world of Harold Lloyd yielded eerily similar results to my initial exposure to W.C. Fields.
TIME Magazine
Mr. Lloyd could be funny playing an undisturbed mummy. Simply this: The Freshman is not so funny as earlier of the comedian's adventures.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Matriculates enough to earn a passing grade.
TV Guide
Rarely less than wonderfully entertaining and involving.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Lloyd can't compete with Chaplin and Keaton, but he perfectly embodied the can-do energy of the 1920s, and few things are quite as funny as his bespectacled, apple-pie face twisted by a panic that was always justified.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
This is a regular Harold Lloyd strip of fun, which is made all the more hilarious by introducing something like suspense in the sequences on the football field.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Lloyd's films are prose where Keaton's were poems, but gag for gag, Lloyd was the funniest screen comic of his time.
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