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1923 American silent romantic-comedy film
- Safety Last! Safety Last! is a 1923 American silent romantic-comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent-film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic.
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Safety Last! is a 1923 American silent romantic-comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent-film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic.
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Safety Last!, American silent film comedy, released in 1923, that was best known for its iconic image of comedian Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock atop a skyscraper.
Lloyd played an unnamed young man who poses as a department-store manager to impress his girlfriend. The plan soon goes awry, and he concocts an elaborate scheme to make his ruse appear true. The scheme mandates that Lloyd scale the side of a skyscraper as a “human fly” in the most precarious and hilarious death-defying situations imaginable. Lloyd performed many of the most dangerous stunts himself, despite having lost two fingers previously during a photography shoot in which he lit a bomb that he erroneously believed was a prop.
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Long underrated in the pantheon of great screen comic actors, Lloyd has achieved new prominence in recent years with the influence of his films on such performers as the Hong Kong actor-director Jackie Chan. Lloyd’s influence on the silent film era was inestimable—owing in part to his ability to create comedy from physical danger—and no movie illustrates this talent more than Safety Last!
•Studio: Hal Roach Studios
•Directors: Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
•Writers: Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, and Tim Whelan
•Running time: 70 minutes
•Harold Lloyd (The Boy)
•Mildred Davis (The Girl)
•Bill Strother (The Pal)
•Noah Young (The Law)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Feb 29, 2012 · The image of Harold Lloyd hanging desperately from the hands of a skyscraper clock during Safety Last! (1923) is one of the greatest icons in cinematic history. Using maps, aerial views, and vintage photographs, my book Silent Visions shows how Harold filmed each of his five stunt-climbing comedies within the downtown Los Angeles Historic Core,….
Jul 3, 2005 · In "Safety Last" (1923), Harold Lloyd takes one dangerous step after another until his straw hat falls off and he finds himself dangling from the hand of a detached clock face in one of the most famous shots in silent film comedy.
Final film of Anna Townsend. In 1919 Harold Lloyd was handed what he thought was a prop bomb, which he lit with his cigarette. It turned out to be real and exploded, blowing off Lloyd's right thumb and index finger, and putting him in the hospital for months.
Safety Last! was Harold Lloyd’s fourth and most complex “thrill” comedy. He came upon the idea for the film after witnessing a so-called “human fly” climb up the side of a tall building—a typical spectacle in the stunt-crazed America of the 1920s.
Safety Last!: Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young. A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job.
