Safety Last! (1923) on Netflix
Harold leaves Great Bend for the big city, promising Mildred he will send for her once he makes good. His letters tell her he manages the De Vore Department Store.
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- Netflix4.5/5
- IMDb8.1/1025,174 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes97%
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Plot summary
In 1922 Harold leaves Great Bend for the big city, telling Mildred, his girlfriend, that he will send for her once he makes good. He rooms with his friend Bill, known as Limpy, and finds work selling in the De Vore Department Store. He buys a lavaliere for Mildred with money raised by pawning Bill's phonograph, and his letters tell her that he manages the store. Mildred believes he can support a family.
Cast
- Roy Brooksas Man Laughing from Window (uncredited)
- Ray Erlenbornas Newsboy with Cap (uncredited)
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- Earl Mohanas Drunk Exiting Acme Drug Co. (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Safety Last! (1923)
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- Lloyd performed some of the climbing stunts himself despite having lost a thumb and forefinger four years earlier in an accident on another film.
- The climb was faked with a number of buildings from 1st Street to 9th Street in downtown Los Angeles, all of different heights, each carrying a rooftop set built to match the facade of the International Bank Building at Temple and Spring Streets.
- Stuntman Harvey Parry appeared in the climactic sequence, a fact he revealed only after Lloyd's death, and in the 1980 Thames Television series Hollywood he discussed at length how the stunts were achieved.
- Bill Strother, who played “Limpy” Bill, was a steeplejack whose climbing Lloyd had watched, which inspired the sequence; Strother was also sometimes the stunt double used in the long shots.
- The film used a one-block alley near Hollywood and Cahuenga Boulevard that was later renamed Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley in recognition of the silent films shot there.
