The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Legacy sequels aren’t anything new, it seems. Hoping to work with Harold Lloyd years after his retirement, Preston Sturges wrote a sequel to The Freshman, one of Lloyd’s most beloved silent comedies from the early 1920s, taking Lloyd’s central character and imagining what would happen to him after twenty years of being placed in a small box before breaking out into Lloyd-esque antics one more time. Reportedly, the perfectionist Sturges shut Lloyd out of the creation process, especially aroun...