Widely considered silent comedian Harold Lloyd's best sound effort, Movie Crazy offers a fascinating behind-the-camera look at the studio system in the early days of talkies. This setting, hyperreal Tinsel Town, permitted Lloyd to pursue the theme of success in a manner that was palatable to his depression-era audience. He plays a movie-struck Kansas boy, who, through a mix-up, is invited to come to Hollywood to have a screen test. Once there, Lloyd causes all sorts of trouble on the set; while waiting for the studio heads to decide what to do with him, he falls for an actress (Constance Cummings). By a fluke, the studio ends up signing him to a lucrative contract after realizing his comedy potential. Lloyd claims to have directed much of Movie Crazy, since the credited director, Clyde Bruckman, was spending more time with a nervous breakdown. Many of Lloyd's greatest routines are pulled out of storage, revamped and put to good, raucous use. Movie Crazy was cut down to eighty-one minutes for a reissue in 1949. The UCLA Film Archive has restored the film to the ninety-five minute version released by Paramount in 1932.