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3	''A Sailor-Made Man'' is a 1921 feature film (barely, 47 minutes) directed by Fred Newmeyer, starring Creator/HaroldLloyd.
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5	Harold is a callow rich boy with a massive sense of entitlement. While relaxing at a fancy resort he sees a pretty blonde girl (Mildred Davis) and decides immediately to marry her. Her father, appalled at Harold's laziness and entitlement, demands that he "GET A JOB."
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7	Harold goes off looking for work, and, more or less at random, joins the Navy. He doesn't care for it very much, but a random shore leave at a port somewhere in the Islamic world provides him with a chance at heroism and character growth, when 1) he runs into Mildred again and 2) she is kidnapped by the Maharajah, who wants to add her to his harem.
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9	Originally planned as a two-reeler, but turned out so well that it was released as four reels and thus became Lloyd's first feature film.
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14	* ContrivedCoincidence: Harold going on shore leave in some Islamic principate and finding Mildred.
15	* CrashingThroughTheHarem: At one point while fleeing from the Maharajah's goons, Harold crashes through the harem, with the girls scattering in panic.
16	* GentlemenRankers: Harold, who is filthy rich, enlists as a common sailor. Of course, it was basically a random choice to prove he could hold a job.
17	* IdleRich: Harold is the "heir to twenty millions", and so entitled and thoughtless that he thinks nothing of dabbing on an artist's painting or sitting on a resort guest's chair the instant the guest rises to greet a friend.
18	* LiteralAssKicking: Harold delivers a kick right to the Maharajah's backside when rescuing Mildred.
19	* MischiefMakingMonkey: Harold is the commander of his ship, greeting a visiting princess, who strokes his hair. Then he wakes up to find that the hair-stroking is being done by a mischevious monkey.
20	* NamelessNarrative: As usual in Harold Lloyd films.
21	* {{Qurac}}: Harold's boat takes shore leave in Agar Shahar Khairpura, the "City of a Thousand Rascals", in the country of Khairpura-Bhandanna.
22	* ShoutOut: An intertitle mentions the Maharajah would be a good play-fellow for Literature/{{Bluebeard}}.

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