Safety Last! [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor

Overview

In this film, Harold Lloyd plays a small-town boy who goes to Los Angeles to seek his fortune to win the heart of his sweetheart. He lands a $15-a-week job in a department store. The trouble begins when the girl believes he has become the manager of the entire store.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/18/2013
UPC:	0715515106511
Original Release:	1923
Source:	Criterion
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	1:13:00
Sales rank:	9,753

Special Features

New, restored 2K digital film transfer; Musical score by composer Carl Davis from 1989, synchronized and restored under his supervision and presented in uncompressed stereo; Alternate score by organist Gaylord Carter from the 1960s, presented in uncompressed monoaural; Audio commentary featuiring film critic Leonard Maltin and director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll; Introduction by Suzanne Lloyd, Lloyd's granddaughter and the president of Harold Lloyd Entertainment; Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius, a 108-minute documentary from 1989; Three newly restored Lloyd shorts: Take a Chance (1918), Young Mr. Jazz (1919), and His Royal Slyness (1920), with commentary by Correll and film writer John Bengtson; Locations and Effects, a new documentary Bengtson and visual-effects expert Craig Barron; New interview with Davis; ; Plus: ; A booklet featuring an essay by critic Ed Park

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Harold Lloyd	The Boy
Mildred Davis	The Girl
Bill Strother	Pal
Noah Young	Law
Westcott B. Clarke	Floorwalker,The Floorwalker
Anna Townsend	Grandma
Gus Leonard	Office Worker
Charles Stevenson	Ambulance attendant,Ambulance attendant
Helen Gilmore	Customer
Mickey Daniels	The Kid

Technical Credits

Hal Roach

Sam Taylor

Tim Whelan Sr.

Hal Roach	Producer,Screenwriter
Sam Taylor	Screenwriter
Tim Whelan Sr.	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Safety Last (1923) pokes fun at the lengths that a 1920s man would go to to be a success, and it's also the movie in which Harold Lloyd's trademark "comedy of thrills" produced the timeless image of Lloyd's dangling precariously from a clock above a busy city street. A formidable athlete, Lloyd mined humor from a relentless series of situational and physical gags involving the efforts of his ambitious sales clerk to make it in the big city and impress his girlfriend back home. The famed climax arrives when Lloyd is forced to scale the high rise department store himself after his "human fly" publicity gambit goes awry. As he hangs off the clock 10 floors above the street, he encounters a new difficulty at every story, turning the climb into a hilarious and breathtaking physical feat. Lloyd performed most of the stunts himself (despite having lost his right thumb and forefinger in an accident) and without trick photography. One of a series of Lloyd feature hits, Safety Last helped him surpass fellow comics Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin in box-office popularity and become a 1920s icon.