Next Aisle Over (1919)
Overview
A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
TOP CAST
Harold Lloyd
The Hustler
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
The Henpecked Husband (as Harry Pollard)
Bebe Daniels
Vera De Luxe
Sammy Brooks
(uncredited)
Billy Fay
(uncredited)
William Gillespie
(uncredited)
Lew Harvey
(uncredited)
Wally Howe
(uncredited)
Bud Jamison
The Masher (uncredited)
Margaret Joslin
The Henpecking Wife (uncredited)
Marie Mosquini
Shoe Customer (uncredited)
William Petterson
(uncredited)
Dorothea Wolbert
Old Maid Passerby on Street (uncredited)
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