Harold Lloyd in “Why Worry?“ (1923)

Harold Van Pelham (Harold Lloyd) is a young, wealthy spoilt American businessman who obsesses constantly about his health, believing he is deathly sick while in reality he is perfectly fine. Determined to improve his physical condition with an extended rest in a “tropical“ climate, Harold travels by passenger ship with his valet Mr. Pipps (Wallace Howe) and personal nurse (Jobyna Ralston) from California to vacations= in the tropics for the fresh air at supposedly peaceful “Paradiso“, a small South American island off the coast of Chile. Once in Paradiso, Harold does not find the peace and seclusion the hypochondriac is desperately seeking; instead, he stumbles into the midst of a revolution against the island’s republic. The uprising is being organized and incited by Jim Blake (James Mason), a greedy “renegade“ from the United States, who wants to overthrow Paradiso’s government “to further his own financial interests“. After being separated from
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