# Pinched

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{{short description|1917 film}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Pinched
| image          = 
| caption        = 
| director       = [Harold Lloyd](/source/Harold_Lloyd)<br>[Gilbert Pratt](/source/Gilbert_Pratt)
| producer       = [Hal Roach](/source/Hal_Roach)
| writer         = 
| starring       = Harold Lloyd
| cinematography = [Walter Lundin](/source/Walter_Lundin)
| editing        = Della Mullady
| distributor    = 
| released       = {{film date|1917|9|23}}
| runtime        = 10 minutes
| country        = [United States](/source/United_States)
| language       = [Silent](/source/Silent_film) ([English](/source/English_language) [intertitle](/source/intertitle)s)
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}
'''''Pinched''''' is a 1917 [American](/source/United_States) [short](/source/short_film) [comedy film](/source/comedy_film) starring [Harold Lloyd](/source/Harold_Lloyd).<ref name="silentera">{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/P/Pinched1917.html|title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''Pinched''|accessdate=April 24, 2010|work=silentera.com}}</ref> A print of the film is held by the [Museum of Modern Art](/source/Museum_of_Modern_Art),<ref name="silentera"/> and it has been released on DVD. Like many American films of the time, ''Pinched'' was subject to cuts by [city and state film censorship boards](/source/Film_censorship_in_the_United_States). The [Chicago Board of Censors](/source/Chicago_Board_of_Censors) required a cut of scene with a man [thumbing his nose](/source/Thumbing_one's_nose).<ref>{{cite journal|title=Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors|journal=Exhibitors Herald|volume=5|issue=16|page=33|date=October 13, 1917|url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald05exhi#page/n778/mode/1up}}</ref>

==Plot==
The Boy is taking his sweetheart for a leisurely drive in an open automobile when his cap blows off his head and is carried by the wind into a nearby park. When he goes to retrieve it, The Boy encounters an armed robber who steals his money. The robber convinces a park policeman that The Boy was attempting to rob him. This leads to a series of comic misunderstandings as The Boy tries to get his money back and prove his innocence.

==Cast==
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*[Harold Lloyd](/source/Harold_Lloyd) as The Boy
*[Snub Pollard](/source/Snub_Pollard)
*[Bebe Daniels](/source/Bebe_Daniels)
*William Blaisdell
*[Sammy Brooks](/source/Sammy_Brooks)
*[Bud Jamison](/source/Bud_Jamison)
*[Margaret Joslin](/source/Margaret_Joslin) (credited as Margaret Joslin Todd)
*[Gus Leonard](/source/Gus_Leonard)
*[Fred C. Newmeyer](/source/Fred_C._Newmeyer)
*[Charles Stevenson](/source/Charles_Stevenson_(actor))
*[Dorothea Wolbert](/source/Dorothea_Wolbert)
{{Div col end}}

==See also==
*[Harold Lloyd filmography](/source/Harold_Lloyd_filmography)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0008432|title=Pinched}}

{{Harold Lloyd}}

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Category:1917 films
Category:1917 American films
Category:1917 comedy films
Category:1917 English-language films
Category:1917 short films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent comedy short films
Category:Censored films
Category:English-language comedy short films
Category:Films directed by Harold Lloyd
Category:Films directed by Gilbert Pratt
Category:Surviving American silent films

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