{"id":42068,"date":"2026-07-10T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42068"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:00:08","slug":"the-marathon-1919-starring-harold-lloyd-bebe-daniels-snub-pollard-and-bud-jamison-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42068","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Marathon&#8221; (1919) starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, &#8216;Snub&#8217; Pollard and Bud Jamison \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z071026zview_marathon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"621\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Marathon <\/i>(1919)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Alfred J. Goulding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>H.M. Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, &#8216;Snub&#8217; Pollard, Bud Jamison.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A rich young woman has her pick of possible suitors.\u00a0 Her stern father, a retired heavyweight boxer, oversees her choices.\u00a0 When a slick potential boyfriend butters up to her daddy, he becomes the father&#8217;s choice.\u00a0 Harold, another suitor, is willing to fight for his chance to date the young lady.<\/p>\n<p>Put up your dukes and may the funniest man win!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mirror gag appears in this film.\u00a0 Harold and his brother Gaylord (who also plays the Chief of Police) pull off the famous routine.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting to note, that Charlie Chaplin was the first to do the mirror comedy skit on film in <em>Floorwalker<\/em> (1916).\u00a0 But it was <em>Duck Soup<\/em> starring The Marx Brothers that made the routine famous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bud Jamison, co-star of dozens of Three Stooges shorts, appears uncredited as The Rich Girl&#8217;s Father.\u00a0 Jamison was just six years older than Bebe Daniels, the actress who played his daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>The Marathon <\/i>(1919)<\/strong> rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z071026zview_marathon2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marathon (1919) Director:\u00a0 Alfred J. Goulding Screenplay: H.M. Walker Stars:\u00a0 Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, &#8216;Snub&#8217; Pollard, Bud Jamison.\u00a0 Tagline:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42069,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068\/revisions\/42069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}