Movie: "Safety Last!"

Release Date: Apr 1923 Genres: Thriller / Romance / Comedy Awards: 1 win Runtime: 70 min Cast: Harold Lloyd (The Boy), Mildred Davis (The Girl), Bill Strother (The Pal) Noah Young (The Law) Westcott Clarke (The Floorwalker (as Westcott B. Clarke)) Roy Brooks (Man Laughing from Window (uncredited)) Mickey Daniels (Newsboy with Freckles (uncredited)) Richard Daniels (Worker with Acetylene Torch (uncredited)) Ray Erlenborn (Newsboy with Cap (uncredited)) William Gillespie (Ambulance Driver (uncredited)) Helen Gilmore (Department Store Customer (uncredited)) Wallace Howe (Man with Flowers / Studio...) James T. Kelley (Old Driver of Delivery Truck...) Gus Leonard (Office Worker (uncredited)) Sam Lufkin (Pawnshop Owner (uncredited)) Earl Mohan (Drunk Exiting Acme Drug Co. (uncredited)) Marie Mosquini (Salesgirl (uncredited)) Fred C. Newmeyer (Car Driver Who Gets Parking Ticket...) Charles Stevenson (Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)) Anna Townsend (The Grandma Punched During the Sale...) Patrick Youch (Onlooker - Clock sequence (uncredited))

Storyline

Country boy (Lloyd) heads to the big city to seek success. While working as a clerk in a department store, he talks the manager into offering $1000 to anyone who can bring more customers to the store. He then arranges for a friend, a "human fly," (Strother) to climb the face of the store building as a publicity stunt. Unfortunatly the "human fly" is a wanted man, and when "The Law" (Young) shows, our hero must make the climb, himself. At each ledge he encounters new difficulties, climaxing in the famous 'clock scene.'