1923 · comedy
Safety Last!
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor1h 13m1923
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Our read: Safety Last! (1923) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- funny
Watching Safety Last! tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Safety Last! feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want silent-era spectacle comedy building to Harold Lloyd's iconic clock climb.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if silent intertitles and 1920s pacing feel like a chore tonight.
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