Safety Last! (1923)
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 74 minuten
Alternative title: Hooger Op
Country:
United States
Directed by: Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis and Bill Strother
IMDb score:
8,1 (24.711)
Releasedate: 1 April 1923
Safety Last! plot
"You're Going to Explode With "Safety Laughs" when You see This Fun Bomb."
Harold tips his boss about a good publicity stunt: have someone climb the immense building. The boss agrees and Harold arranges a human fly. Due to circumstances, however, he cannot perform the stunt and Harold must therefore undertake the life-threatening assignment himself.
Actors and actresses
The Boy - Harold
The Girl
The Pal
The Law
The Floorwalker
Man Laughing from Window
Newsboy with Freckles
Worker with Acetylene Torch
Newsboy with Cap
Ambulance Driver
Reviews & comments
Duke Nukem
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- 1810 messages
- 2003 votes
I've always liked Harold Lloyd more than Chaplin and Keaton. That's because the 'ordinary' man can identify better with the man with the glasses, but also because of the spectacular stunt work for which Lloyd is known.
I remember this movie the most because of the famous ascent of a 13-storey building and hanging on the hands of that clock. But the rest of the movie is also very funny. A nice detail is that Bill Strother, who plays Harold's friend in this film, was in real life the man who had climbed such a high building as a 'human fly' , which gave Harold Lloyd the idea for this movie has given.
What also struck me when watching the film is how few young people were walking on the street at that time. Apart from a newspaper boy you only see adults on the street, the men in smart suits and the women in their finest clothes. Very different from what you see on the street now.
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IH88
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- 9761 messages
- 3190 votes
“She's just got to believe that I'm successful… Until I am.”
Great silent movie starring Harold Lloyd as an ambitious man trying to make it in the big city. Lloyd's facial expressions and body movements in particular provide many humorous moments. Safety Load! has of course become iconic due to the last part with the ascent of the building (fantastic executed), but there are also many small moments in the film that Safety Last! make it special. Mildred Davis as a friend and the many other actors also deliver craftsmanship.
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Sergio Leone
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- 4430 messages
- 3110 votes
Pretty okay.
Harold Lloyd is fortunately closer to Buster Keaton than to Charles Chaplin. He doesn't have the dry look of Keaton - which is a lack in all that slapstick - but he also thrives on stunt work. That's what this film has to have and it doesn't disappoint. The final is the well-known climb and it is really well captured. This is where adventure, entertainment and cinematic talent come together beautifully. From 1923, so almost 100 years old, but that doesn't show from the stunt work. Well done.
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