Harold Lloyd plays a mild-mannered milkman who is mistaken for a prize-fighting brute in this rediscovered classic. “Although a big hit in its day, The Milky Way began to disappear by the end of the 1930s, and vanished officially in 1946 when Sam Goldwyn remade it as The Kid from Brooklyn with Danny Kaye. So for the nearly 40 years since then, it has been a ‘lost' film, viewable only rarely at one or two archives throughout the world.... Always considered the best of Harold Lloyd's talkies, it holds up beautifully, not least because, for the first time, Lloyd doesn't entirely dominate the proceedings. Actually, the best laughs come from the snappy and rapidly delivered wisecracks of Adolphe Menjou and his wife Veree Teasdale. They have great lines to work with of course, but their timing is impeccable too.... Leo McCarey is certainly one of the best comedy directors Lloyd ever worked with, and the supporting cast (including Helen Mack, Lionel Stander and Dorothy Wilson) is a joy to watch....” William K. Everson