Mild-mannered botanist Harold Bledsoe-recruited because Dad was the former police chief-goes fingerprint happy to help quell the San Francisco gang wars and track down a Chinatown dope kingpin. Completed as a silent, but scrapped when sound loomed, Welcome Danger was largely reshot and turned into a weird part-talkie hybrid. While the original silent version is lost, the camera negative of a silent, intertitled version of the talkie did survive in Lloyd's vaults for seventy-five years. Now restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, this silent version is a much brighter, much funnier, much more alive work than the rather primitive sound film. As UCLA's Jere Guldin wrote recently, “Welcome Danger proves an enjoyable coda to a silent film career that was among the cinema's brightest.”