But Lloyd wanted the stunt to be even more outrageous on film. Enter the clock. “Harold was such a realist, and every scenario in his movies had to be a real event or a real situation for a ...

Harold Lloyd, 27 (sans eyeglasses), is in a makeshift ... He successfully hangs from the clock but pulls his shoulder out. While the plot calls for Mildred—once Harold finally reaches the ...

The classic Harold Lloyd comedy “Safety Last” is turning 100 years old this year. But with its heavy dollops of action and a superstar’s real-life derring-do, it doesn’t seem a day over 10 ...

Though it wasn’t the intention of the filmmakers to express this in the movie, a man hanging from a clock seems appropriate. We mention this because on Tuesday, Harold Lloyd Entertainment filed ...

Harold Lloyd performing his famous clock tower gag from "Safety Last" (1923) and Jackie Chan paying homage to the stunt in his 1983 film "Project A." The stunt inspired a scene in Jackie Chan’s ...

where Lloyd famously dangled from the hands of a skyscraper’s clock, an image now synonymous with silent cinema. Scene from Safety Last! starring Harold Lloyd. In 1923, Lloyd married actress ...

Buster Keaton was the "Great Stone Face." And Harold Lloyd was the daredevil who dangled from the face of a huge clock. Lloyd is so identified with that single image, in part, because for decades ...

The classic Harold Lloyd comedy “Safety Last” is turning 100 years old this year. But with its heavy dollops of action and a superstar’s real-life derring-do, it doesn’t seem a day over 10, even if it ...