Somewhere in Turkey

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Somewhere in Turkey
Directed by	Alfred J. Goulding
Produced by	Hal Roach
Starring	Harold Lloyd
Production company	Rolin Films
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	June 16, 1918 (1918-06-16)
Running time	12 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Somewhere in Turkey is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.

Plot

A girl (Bebe Daniels) survives a shipwreck. Upon reaching shore, she is apprehended by several soldiers of a sultan who forcibly bring her to him. The girl immediately rejects the sultan's advances and is promptly thrown into a basement jail cell. A professor (Harold Lloyd) and his assistant (Snub Pollard) are travelling by camel through the desert. The out-of-control beast brings them to the sultan's residence. They find a rock bearing an Arabic inscription. Curious, they venture inside to find out what the words mean. They inadvertently interrupt the sultan watching a dancing girl. The angry sultan tells the visitors that the rock bears a warning that if any white man enters the building, he will not leave it alive. The two men try to flee, but Harold is eventually caught. He is erroneously put in the same jail cell as the girl. When the sultan sees this mistake, he angrily breaks into the cell to punish both of them. Harold uses the opportunity to escape with the girl and head for Brooklyn on his camel.

Cast

Harold Lloyd as A Fearless Explorer
Snub Pollard as His Assistant
Bebe Daniels as A Girl in Danger
William Blaisdell
Sammy Brooks
Harry Burns
Louise Carver
Lige Conley (credited as Lige Cromley)
Billy Fay
William Gillespie
Helen Gilmore
Lew Harvey
Wallace Howe
Dee Lampton
Gus Leonard
James Parrott
Charles Stevenson (credited as Charles E. Stevenson)
Dorothea Wolbert

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Somewhere in Turkey was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut three scenes of sticking spear into man's posterior, scene of spear in woman's posterior, and spear in old man's posterior.^[1]