Harold Hickory of Hickoryville hosts a well-founded inferiority complex until fate allows him to outwit the town bully, rout out some itinerant crooks, and prove his true worth to his father, the county sheriff. A backwoods setting, where our hero is a male Cinderella in a family of hulking brutes, seems an unlikely place for the comic who made his name climbing skyscrapers and battling the city's insanity. But apart from being a wonderful satire of Tol'able David, The Kid Brother is also a classic example of Harold Lloyd's technique precisely because it sets his antics against a new backdrop. It is a beautiful film in which lyrical images of the countryside are captured in carefully framed compositions. But Lloyd can lure a camera up a tree as easily as up a building, and the harrowing climax is anything but pastoral.