Review of Safety Last! (1923) by Cody C — 12 Jul 2013

This much-heralded silent film comedy starring Harold Lloyd is actually very funny and I laughed out loud a few times (not an easy feat to achieve). Lloyd plays a young man who moves to the big smoke to make good and thereby wed his waiting fiancee.

As a department store salesman, he has all sorts of mishaps -- especially when his fiancee shows up unexpectedly and he tries to pretend he is the boss. Of course, the scene where he scales the tall building and ends up hanging from the clock is the most famous (later imitated by Jackie Chan, among others).