Welcome Danger
1929 film by Clyde Bruckman
Welcome Danger is a 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Clyde Bruckman and starring Harold Lloyd. A sound version and silent version were filmed. Ted Wilde began work on the silent version, but became ill and was replaced by Bruckman. Wilde died from stroke two months after this film's premiere.
Plot
Botany student Harold Bledsoe is bound for San Francisco to help investigate a crime wave in the city's "Chinatown" district. Since Harold is the son of San Francisco's former police captain, municipal authorities hope he will be as skilled as his father in solving crimes. Also traveling to the city, but by car, are a young woman named Billie Lee and her little brother Buddy, who needs his lame leg treated in San Francisco by "the famous Chinese physician" Dr. Chang Gow.
During a brief train stop in Colorado, Harold has his photograph taken at a vending machine. He is surprised to see a double-exposed print of himself and Billie Lee.
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