With our first random foray into the silent era, Harold Loyld’s comic romance The Kid Brother - officially helmed by director Ted Wilde - has a plot. It’s fine. Charming enough. But really it’s platform to string together a series of brilliant physical comedy set pieces that the lead actor stumbles, flails, and seemingly improvises his way through. Farm hijinks, pranks on bullies, a chase/fight for his life on a derelict boat, and tree climbing highlight the chain of events and showcase Loyld’s physicality, comic imagination, and heart. 

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla (1954).