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Safety Last! (1923) -- F. C. Newmeyer & S. Taylor
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).
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