Safety Last!

Safety Last! is a 1923 silent movie. It is a romantic comedy. It stars Harold Lloyd. The image of Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic is well known. The movie was very successful and critically hailed. It cemented Lloyd's status as a major figure in early movies. It is still popular with movie buffs. Lloyd performed some of his climbing stunts despite losing a thumb and forefinger in an accident while making a movie four years earlier.

This is a picture from Safety Last!

Other websites

• Official website
• Safety Last! on IMDb
• Article at Turner Classic Movies Archived 2013-02-05 at Archive.today
• Safety Last! at Rotten Tomatoes
• A Roger Ebert review Archived 2012-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
• A filmsite.org review
• Variety.com