Safety Last
Summary:
After Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the silent film era's "third genius" was Harold Lloyd, who stars in this Horatio Alger-style story of an average country boy trying to make good in the big city. The Boy (Lloyd) leaves his sweetheart, The Girl (Mildred Davis, later the real-life Mrs. Lloyd) in Great Bend while he pursues his fortune in a teeming metropolis.... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Harold Lloyd - (The Boy)
Mildred Davis - (The Girl)
Bill Strother - (The Pal)
Noah Young - (The Law)
W.B. Clarke - (The Floorwalker)
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Review:
Safety Last (1923) pokes fun at the lengths that a 1920s man would go to to be a success, and it's also the movie in which Harold Lloyd's trademark "comedy of thrills" produced the timeless image of Lloyd's dangling precariously from a clock above a busy city street. A formidable athlete, Lloyd mined humor from a relentless series of si... Continue >>
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