The Freshman

Been hunting this video for ages, and finally it's online, for free. Rejoice. It's Harold Lloyd's The Freshman, and is probably my favourite silent movie of all time.

It's the full video, so if you're watching at work, try booking a meeting room for a good hour and 15 minutes.

The movie inspired the funny enough but infinitely inferior (in my, uh, snobby opinion) Waterboy, starring Adam Sandler. If it's more saucy trivia you're after, however, I can tell you that the silent star, Lloyd, was one of the only people who bombshell starlets, including Marilyn Monroe, trusted to take their nude portraits. All totally tasteful of course. Hubba hubba.

IMDB outlines the movie's plot thus: "A nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus." However, what excites me most about this movie is the football game scene, which was shot in sequence, an unusual method for Lloyd. Anyway, further geekery aside, here's the movie. Hooray for Harold Lloyd.