Film Screenings
Safety Last!
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Screenplay: Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan
Cinematographer: Walter Lundin
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
1923 / USA / B&W / 70min /
35mm (Film Archive) / beta (Science Museum)
Silent with music and English intertitles
A nutty country bumpkin came to the big city for a better living and landed with a sales clerk job at a department store. But his girlfriend thought he has made it already and proposes to get married. When the store offers a reward for attracting a crowd, his architect friend asks to climb up to the roof, what turns out was the greatest stunt in the silent movies with Lloyd hanging on the clock! A similar scene appears in Jackie Chan's Project A.
| 17/9 | (Sat) | 5:00pm | Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive |
| 25/9 | (Sun) | 7:30pm | Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Science Museum |
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