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Professor Beware is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Elliott Nugent released in USA on 29 july 1938 with Harold Lloyd

Professor Beware (1938)

Professor Beware
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Released in USA 29 july 1938
Length 1h33
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy
Rating62% 3.1434953.1434953.1434953.1434953.143495

Professor Beware is a 1938 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Elliott Nugent. This was Phyllis Welch MacDonald's first and only film.

Synopsis

Three thousand years after ancient egyptian Neferus's death, Professor Dean Lambert (who looks like Neferus) is translating his history tablet by tablet. Dean is convinced that falling in love will ruin him as it did Neferus, whose love to the Pharoah's daughter led to his downfall. He meets aspiring actress and heiress Jane Van Buren and exchanges clothes with her drunk audition partner, Snoop Donlan. Dean is arrested for stinking of liquor. His arrest makes the papers and he is asked to resign from the museum staff. Dean has ten days to join an expedition leaving for Egypt from New York and becomes a stowaway in the trailer of a pair of newlyweds bound for Niagara Falls. Snoop then accuses Dean of stealing his watch and clothes. Jane, meanwhile, follows the trailer in order to return Dean's clothes and the museum's car. The newlyweds kick Dean out, while the police trail him on suspicion of robbery and jumping bail. Jane then finds Dean and urges him to clear himself, but he convinces her to keep going to New York. While fleeing the police, Jane and Dean camp in the desert, and he falls in love and kisses her. The kiss causes a storm to break, just like the story of Neferus and Anebi. Dean is struck by lightning and begins speaking in a strange language.

Actors

Harold Lloyd

(Prof. Dean Lambert)Ward Bond

(Motorcycle Cop)Raymond Walburn

(Judge James G. Parkhouse Marshall)Lionel Stander

(Jerry)William Frawley

(Snoop Donlan)
And :
Thurston Hall
Cora Witherspoon
Sterling Holloway
Mary Lawrence
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