Originally filmed as a five-reel comedy in 1926, this movie was cut down to three reels and released in 1927. Unfortunately, the first half of the movie is badly damaged and I would certainly have ceased to watch it altogether if it wasn't so funny. Director Harry Edwards was a shorts specialist. He made no less than 161 of them! For a change of pace in 1926 he made a feature, "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp", starring Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford. This film was so successful with both critics and moviegoers that another feature assignment was inevitable. This time, of course, it was "His First Flame" which survives only in its three-reel version. Nevertheless, Langdon is in fine form and receives excellent support from Vernon Dent (as our hero's woman-hating uncle) and Natalie Kingston (our hero's off-again, on-again fiancée), as well as Ruth Hiatt (as the nasty fiancée's lovely sister).
Review of His First Flame
